Click Date Repeat Again by K J Farnham

As you can tell from the rating of 1 Star, I really did not like this book.  I struggled to finish it if I'm being honest and didn't so much read the final half of it but skimmed through just to get to the end. 

There is little plot here, I didn't expect it to have a great one based on the premise of the tale but I did expect more from it than it delivered.  The whole gist is that Jess has split up with "The Golfer" and her best friend Chloe has gifted her a 3 month subscription to Yahoo! Personals for her birthday.  Online dating worked for Chloe so apparently she thinks it will work for Jess too.  I've read the first one and expected this to be much the same format and it is - pokes and icebreakers, online messaging turning to phone calls turning to the big meet up.

The real problem here is the way Jess is portrayed.  She comes across as completely without a selfless bone in her body and to be actually incredibly unlikeable.  Even worse every stereotype you have come across about Air Stewardesses is afforded to Jess and it makes for uncomfortable reading.  Chloe does appear in this book and she has suffered a complete personality transplant as well.  The perceived tension of who will Jess choose - Sawyer or Justin - holds some interest for the reader but ultimately you don't care about the character so couldn't give two hoots about who wins the fair maiden.

I just could not connect with anything about the characters, the humour that should be in the book is replaced by what comes across as incredibly vitriolic rather than wry observation.  I also noted that everyone drinks and drives in this book.  At one point Chloe meets up with Jess at the Home Bar, has an incredibly alcoholic drink (what we Brits would call a Top Shelfer) and then a normal cocktail and then leaves the bar and drives home.  There is never any comeback for this behaviour either and the only time drinking and driving is mentioned is when someone can barely stand up and the wisdom of them driving is questioned.

The writing itself is actually competent - such a pity that the plot and characterisation are far from it.