Search - Alphabet Weekends: Love on the Road from A to Z

This book starts with a great premise. Two best friends. One boy, one girl. Girl gets dumped by scum-bag boyfriend of seven years. Boy is sick of being the one to pick up the pieces. Tells girl he loves her and has a great idea. They will play a game called Alphabet Weekends where each weekend they alternate a letter and choose an activity to eventually get girl to fall in love with him.

Good premise.

Even good book.

It would have even better book if the author just stuck to these two main characters, Natalie and Tom.

Instead she writes about all these other characters and relationships and doesn't elaborate on the true premise of the book, Alphabet Weekends.

I ended up liking the book, and loved the fact that it was British (it's been a while since I read a good British Chick Lit book).

I thought this was a very creative idea for a love story. Two people who have been friends most of their lives decide to test their relationship by engaging in different activities together starting with different letters of the alphabet. I loved watching how this relationship developed. But, there's more than the love story between Natalie and Tom to this book. There's also a cast of family and friends that have their own problems to contend with. At times the number of characters became distracting, but it did add depth to the book.

This book was really enjoyable and hard to put down. Three stories were going on in one, but the biggest and most important was the story of Tom and Natalie. The characters were developed well, but sometimes it was easy to get caught up in other characters besides Tom and Natalie. The weekends from A to Z were fun to figure out, but I thought some lacked pizaz. Altogether I really enjoyed this book.

I really, really wanted to like this book because I thought the premise was fantastic, 26 dates based on the letters in the alphabet. Unfortunately, this book was a huge disappointment. I gave it 3 stars and I wouldn't recommend it to others unless you want a fun idea to try with a significant other, husband or whole family maybe.
Unlike other reviewers I didn't have too much of a problem with the various sets of charachters, although I would have rather their stories been interwoven instead of seperated. The problems I personally had were the writing style. She likes short sentences. And sometimes not even real sentences. The writing is choppy. It was aggravating and very noticable. It got on my nerves. And most times I don't notice stuff like that. The other things were that I actually identified best with Anna and Nicholas even though I'm the same age at Natalie! There was no heat in Natalie and Tom's relationship and there never was, not even at the end. I know Natalie doesn't settle for Tom but I was hard pressed to believe she actually loved him at the end. Unfortunately, there was a lot of heat between Lucy and Alec. I hate stories that make adultery seem ok/commonplace/glamorous/soul-mate seeking. This one didn't and at least the fall out is realistic. That's the best I can say about it. The dialogues were also really good and fun. Except I didn't understand much of the British slang. It took me a while to figure out snogging wasn't sex! lol