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2COOL2BTRUE

2cool2btrue, December 2005
by Simon Brooke

Downstream Publishing
Featuring: Charlie Barrett
320 pages
ISBN: 0743477634
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2COOL2BTRUE
Simon Brooke

Reviewed by Samantha Andrick
Posted November 16, 2005

Contemporary

Wake up next to gorgeous model girlfriend; get up whenever over hangover; drink coffee and wake up; go to casting call for a vacation brochure wearing laundry day boxers -- just another day in the life of model Charlie Barrett.

After making a career of modeling cigarettes and advertising trips, Charlie is ready to settle down with a more grown-up job. His opportunity comes quickly with the hot new website 2cool2btrue.com. Worried that he may not have another chance somewhere else, he takes the unusual job of buying luxury items and going out for coffee, courtesy of 2cool.

But there are secrets behind the website. When the owners vanish, Charlie must figure out a way to pay the bills. With his relationship faltering, the website under investigation and no way to fix it, Charlie has to find a way to make amends. Stuck with Nora, a clumsy reporter, the two learn disturbing secrets about 2cool and society.

Brooke's endearing characters and imaginative plotlines create the perfect story for men or women. The plot kept me engaged the whole way through, and I genuinely liked the relationships between the characters. It was also interesting to find out what it would be like to be a model. Although I know it's fiction, Brooke had to get his information from somewhere. This isn't your everyday lad lit. There's something for everyone -- action, romance, mystery and humor -- in this book.

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SUMMARY

Charlie Barrett, male model extraordinaire, is ready for a career change. It's not that ten years of modeling haven't been fun: the Paris shows, the nightclub guest lists, the fabulous apartment and even more fabulous model girlfriend. But, at 33, advertisements for comfy cardigans and the La-Z-Boys loom large in Charlie's future. It's time for him to find a job that offers more challenge than tilting your head left or right on command. So when a chance meeting results in Charlie being offered the job as the face of 2cool2btrue, he readily accepts. 2cool is the web equivalent of Armani, Prada and Gucci; the sexiest thing in cyberspace and everyone wants a piece of it. As their marketing guru, Charlie's days are spent flicking through magazines looking for luxury products for the website to endorse, his nights a whirl of launch parties and champagne. But then things start to go wrong. 2cool's owners disappear... and so does a large amount of money. With his relationship on the rocks, Charlie turns to his old modeling pals for support and finds none of them wants to help a man under investigation for fraud, particularly one labeled "Pretty Boy" by the Police... What is a boy to do?

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