Fed up with being single at 38, Julie works out a deal to do research on how single women around the world cope. While she travels the world, her four friends back home (all in various stages of being single) cope with their lives.
This read more like a non-fiction book with a very thin line of story thrown in than a real fiction book. Perhaps because the author (who co-wrote He's Just Not That Into You) traveled the world doing research for the book herself. I found the long pages of explanation about how women in Australia face a "man drought" to be distracting from the story. Or the supposedly impromptu long meetings at French night clubs with single French women to be too didactic for a fiction book. After awhile, it seemed as though the author had done all the research but couldn't quite make it into a non-fiction book so she tried to turn it into fiction.
All in all, it wasn't a complete waste of time (I did finish it) but it wasn't the greatest book I've read lately, either.
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