What I Did For Love

Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Hey everyone-if anyone's actually reading. I'm back! Sorry about the very long absence! My computer crashed during the summer and I JUST got it fixed. But I totally forgot what website I started this blog on and I couldn't figure it out, because I tend to have quite a few dumb moments. =D I've been super busy as well, getting all my college stuff settled, so I honestly wasn't trying very hard. haha. So, here's my review for What I Did for Love by Susan Elizabeth Phillips:

And here's my honest opinion: This book was disgusting.

This was a completely uncreative, unrealistic piece of cheesy romantic crap. Most of the plot was predictable and seen in various other places.

Let's take some of the characters for an example. Now, personally, I don't follow the lives of celebrities, but the main character, Georgie, her ex-husband, Lance, and his new wife, Jade, and the whole mess surrounding them, reminds me quite a bit of the rumors around Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's breakup.  Weren't there a few rumors about Brad cheating on Jennifer with Angelina Jolie? And wasn't it also talk about how Brad wanted kids and Jennifer didn't? Please forgive me if I'm wrong, but I recall these rumors. Georgie broke up with her famous ex-husband, Lance, because he cheated on her with his charitable movie co-star, Jade. Lance also tells the tabloids that while he wanted children, Georgie didn't want any, which was the complete opposite of what happened (Now I wouldn't even mention this point, but apparently it was extremely important to the story since it was mentions several times, although in very awkward, random moments). The charities that Lance and Jade support sounds a lot like those that Pitt and Jolie support. Every time Phillips explained character traits of any of these three characters, my mind immediately shot to the whole Aniston-Pitt-Jolie triangle. Am I the only one who sees the similarities???

Now let's get to the plot. Georgie, who used to be the star of a very popular sit-com once upon a time, flips out in front of the paparazzi after learning about the baby that Lance and Jade will soon have, so she runs off to her friend Trev's house and asks him to marry her just to get the paparazzi off her back. However, who would've guessed the Bramwell Shepard, her former bad-boy co-star of "Skip and Scooter", who actually caused the show to prematurely canceled, would show up just in time to hear her desperate plea. Hearing her most hated enemy make fun of her, made Georgie mad, so she planned to take a trip to Las Vegas with her friend. However, her friend can't make it and Georgie soon finds herself face to face with Bram in the casino. But they end up going to a party in a hotel room, though why Georgie went with him, I still don't understand. To make a long story short, basically they both end up drugged and wake up married to each other the next morning. Sound like "The Hangover" to anyone? 

Georgie convinces Bram to stay married to her and they move into his house and try to convince everyone that they're a happily married couple. However, everyone who actually knows Georgie, knows how much she always hated Bram and tries to talk to her about it, including her ex-husband, who shows up as Bram and Georgie were hosting a dinner party. Then Jade comes in and tells everyone that as she and Lance had come straight from the airport after a charity trip, two of their staff had come down with a very serious ailment. Thinking it was SARS, the Health Department said that Lance, Jade, and everyone they had come into contact with, meaning the whole dinner party. This was the only slightly creative plot point in the entire book, but I found it so far-fetched and unrealistic, the creativity was wasted. 

After that, various things happen, and Georgie realizes that she's in love with Bram, who tries to use that to his advantage, they fight, she runs away, he realizes he's also in love with her, gets her back, and they live happily ever after and make babies. Add in Georgie realizing that her father did actually love her, and few random budding relationships, and you've got the whole story.

Overall, I obviously didn't like the book. However, I must say that Bram was my favorite character because he actually had some depth to him. He was a former bad-boy who was trying to go good, but trying to hide that part of him as well. I thought he was one high point to this book. However, that wasn't the author's intention. She wants the reader to be drawn to Georgie, the main character and "victim", but I usually took Bram's side in everything. So kudos for the one good character!

So I think that's everything I wanted to to talk about. If you love my review, or hate it, tell me! I'd love to hear your thoughts on the book or any other books as well. You can email me at Kristi_Reads@yahoo.com. Right now I'm reading The Luxe by Anna Godberson, and it's my first time reading it, so I'll try to get a review on here when I'm done.

Thanks for reading!

Love,

Kristi!