Paperbacks, Break-ups and Johanna Edwards

Before I get going with this post I want all of you who have been waiting for the paperback version of Sex, Murder And A Double Latte to know that it is finally here (here being www.barnesandnoble.com) which probably means that you can find it in the Barnes & Noble stores as well. The rest of the stores will probably start selling it on April 1st (the official release date). While Barnes & Noble may be selling it they have yet to post the cover on their website. Go figure. But if you want to buy it in an actual bookstore just look for the brightest pink book on the shelves and you should find it easily enough.

Moving on; recently I was invited to join a group called Girlfriend's Cyber Circuit (GCC). It consists of 25 female authors and every month or so we peruse one another's books and let the world know what we think of them in our blogs. I'm flattered that they chose to include me and I was more than a little bit pleased when I found out that the first book I was supposed to look into was one written by Johanna Edwards. I read her first book, The Next Big Thing last year and really enjoyed it. It was definitely deserving of the bestselling status it acquired. Well now she’s come out with a second book titled, Your Big Break. Here's a quick summary:

Danielle “Dani” Myers has become an expert at romantic breakups ever since she was hired to "facilitate" them for clients of Your Big Break, Inc. In other words, she dumps people for money. But company rule #5 (do not get personally involved) is getting harder to obey. One of her dumpees is turning out to be the kind of guy she might just want to pick up on the rebound. and a new client has just walked in, begging for Dani's help breaking up with The Big Jackass, who's been leading her on all this time-and now turns out to be married. It would be a routine job except for one problem: the so-called Big Jackass is married to none other than Dani's mother….

Okay, so when I read this I initially thought, "Big Break Inc.? Isn't that a little farfetched?" Sure, I know of people who have purposely put temptation in their "loved one's" path but an agency that you can hire to actually meet with your boyfriend/girlfriend and tell them it's over...that would just never happen, right?

Apparently Edwards in clairvoyant because she addressed all this in her blog and in a press release. Not only could it happen, it is happening. Edwards took a little poetic license with the subject but there are agencies that do nothing but split people up for money. The whole thing started in Japan but it's catching on here in the States.

I guess I shouldn't be that surprised. There are so many things that people hire others to do. There are those who hire people to shop for them, raise their kids, even pick out and wrap the presents they give to their friends at Christmas time. So is this really such a stretch? Probably not, just sad.

But being the good chick lit author that she is, Johanna Edwards has managed to take a bizarre and disturbing situation and make it highly entertaining. So next time you're in a bookstore check out Your Big Break. A peek inside this book may be a peek into the future.



Kyra Davis
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