Open Road Integrated Media LLC
Featuring: Eric; Sophie
230 pages ISBN: 1453295070 EAN: 9781453295076 Kindle: B00B65LW8W Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Two ladies realise their self-destructive behaviour has to
stop. Annie is owner of a bar and lately she's been
putting away ten cocktails and driving home. Her best
friend Sophie walked out on her boyfriend after finding he
was cheating with someone younger, but she keeps texting
him wanting to get back together. Annie somehow ends up
driving a police car to Sophie's house and next morning the
police are not amused, but the judge imposes rehab instead
of a sentence. Annie's furious, declaring that she doesn't
need rehab, but her licence is suspended. Sophie drives her
home, and realises that she needs help just as much as
Annie.
LOVE REHAB starts when the ladies bravely attend the New
Jersey town's AA meeting and since Annie won't talk, Sophie
stands up and tells everyone why she feels so bad, but
instead of the man's name she says he's whisky. Everyone
cheers and she's amazed to feel an awful lot better -
better than she has done for months. Afterwards the ladies
talk to the counsellor, Joe, privately and Sophie tells him
the truth, explaining that it has really helped her to
talk. Annie however says that she's ashamed to be there
with so many former customers of her bar. Joe suggests
they form a support group of their own.
Thirty women show up to the first meeting of Love Rehab.
I found that these women were as much obsessed with the
trappings of relationships as with love. Social media
contributed to many problems as some had online-dated, some
were cyber-stalking their ex's new girlfriend and others
thought that the most vital thing to do after a breakup was
to change their Facebook status. As Sophie says, the girls
don't even know what good communication with men looks like
any more. Strangely all the women admitted they were
desperate to marry. Not one was the commitment-phobe that
would equal the men, only dating bad boys or married men
because she doesn't want to be tied down, yet such women
exist. For balance, we have Annie who is out of the closet
and who helps some of the Love Rehab girls find the AA
meeting. One motivational speaker is a man who explains
that men are not complicated and do not over-think
messages, but they do sometimes manipulate girls. He ends
up joining the group.
With whimsical resolutions such as 'Stop making drunken
calls' and 'Take an inventory of yourself' this book by Jo
Piazza could be good advice for many of us, for who has not
had her heart broken? If you realise that romantic comedy
movies are just that, and need encouragement to stop
phoning and texting a guy, LOVE REHAB could be the
answer. It's a sad and a funny read all at once, and
contains a lot of truths about modern life. I enjoyed this
lively read.
For anyone who has ever overdosed on love—or planned the
wedding before the second date—Jo Piazza’s dazzling debut
novel is a must-read
Cyber-stalking, drive-bys, drunken text messaging, creating
fake email accounts—you’re gonna have to face it, you’re
addicted to love.
Sophie isn’t dealing with her breakup well. Dumped by her
boyfriend, Eric, for his sexting, D-cupped, young Floozy
McSecretary, Sophie leaves Manhattan and lands back in her
hometown, crushed and pajama-clad, blaming herself and
begging her ex for a second chance.
But when her best friend, Annie, gets in trouble for
driving drunk and is forced to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous
meeting, something clicks in Sophie’s strung-out mind. Women
need love rehab, she realizes, to help fix the craziness
that comes along with falling for someone.
If you start it, they will come. When she opens up her home
to the obsessed and lovelorn, Sophie finds a way to help
women out there who have overdosed on the wrong men—and she
saves herself in the process.
Love is a drug and the only things that can save us are the
steps, rules, and one another. Step one: Admit you have a
problem, and keep the hell away from Facebook.
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