We Review How To Get A (Love) Life by Rosie Blake

The Dare: To Get a Love Life by Valentine’s Day.

Nicola has success in her professional life (she enjoys her job working for a talent agency,) she loves her family (even though her mother can be hard work,) and she has lovely friends. However, she doesn’t have a boyfriend and when her colleague, Caroline, discovers that Nicola has never had a boyfriend for Valentine’s Day, she sets Nicola a challenge to get a love life and that she needs to find herself a man by Valentine’s Day. For a girl set in her ways (and frankly has a case of OCD,) this isn’t an easy task.

Nicola’s important quest begins with some awful dates with horrible sounding men and at times, it was cringe worthy to read – I felt sorry for Nicola. The book was great and had me laughing out loud in some places.

It was heart-warming too. I was pleased to see Nicola come out of her shell a little throughout the book as she puts herself into situations that have her out of her comfort zone.

I want to be friends with Caroline – she sounds brilliant and James seems a lovely gentleman and very sweet. Mark was also a fun character to read.

I read this book in almost one sitting (a previous appointment stopped me from reading it in one sitting.) I couldn’t put it down.

The plot is a lovely lesson in what could happen if you just let yourself take a leap of faith.

A hilarious romantic read and it isn’t just for Valentine’s Day.

How To Get A (Love) Life is published by Novelicious Books (Jan, 2014,) and is available in e-book..

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I'm Laura. I started Novel Kicks back in 2009 as I wanted a place to discuss books and writing - two loves of my life. As someone who has anxiety, these two things give me, and I am sure countless others, a much needed escape.
There is a monthly book club, writing exercises, prompts, reviews, author interviews, competitions and guest posts. I cover many genres and I hope there is something for everyone.
I grew up by the sea in Dorset and currently live in Poole with my husband, Chris and three cats. I love writing and have a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing from Falmouth University. I am writing my first book. If only I could stop pressing delete. Chris has threatened to stop it from working. Haha.
I have always loved creative writing since I was in first school and would very much like to meet my teacher, Miss Sayers, to say thank you for all the encouragement she gave me then.
When not writing, I love reading, cats, Disney, singing (I can't sing but this doesn't stop me,) and falling into a good TV show or film. If I could step into any fictional world, it would be amongst the characters in ABC's Once Upon a Time.
I love reading many genres and discovering new authors.