Because luck would have it so ...

As I am currently on the trip anyway, to read a lot of books by Catherine Bybee, it was impossible to pass on this series. The Weekly series is as much in the Chick-Lit-column as the Not Quite series, only that it is still a ticking 'exaggerated' in the romantic area. That's basically not meant negatively, but I knew just not know how to explain it.

CONTENTS

Sam Elliot operates a recruitment agency which it has set itself the task, their clients to ask women to choose from, have expressed their willingness to enter into a contract for a certain period, according to which they are to play a kind of exemplary wife. The requests of Blake Harrison you seem finally a big fish to have gone into the net, because they urgently need a lot of money in order to cover the costs of their pflegebedürfigen sister can. The first coming together of the two does not proceed as planned. On the one hand is Sam "Samantha" Elliot, not a man but a woman and secondly, it also has a voice call like some hotlines for men. Blake Harrison is fascinated by this woman and proposes eventually all others who propose in Sam Elliot, just to make it into the wind the offer, they themselves would be his wife - play for exactly one year - without intimate connection. The cost of her sister he would wear, including an additional share for Sam himself. That they there for a bit of thinking does not say no, is inevitable. And what after all occur for 'little problems', can probably think of each.

CHARACTERS

How exactly in the other books of Catherine Bybee the main protagonists are sympathetic to me here. Blake is the typical rich playboy, but rather changes in the course of the story. And his new side I liked from the beginning. With Sam Elliot at first I was a few problems because they only but seemed to me something stoic and cold. But this has quickly subsided and I liked it then but much so that she was always honest and actually has nothing concealed before Blake. Honesty, the two had indeed been agreed from the outset, but that does not mean that both pervade so. Sam has but since not disappoint. Until the end, she has remained true to its personality. When Blake was not so, and that has ultimately actually led to the dilemma, yet what is there at the end. Bybee has the threaded sent because usually Blake would have been over this one thing just as honest as with everything else. Only certain timing, the had then moved all in and the story of subsequent events after the other, so he basically had no choice, but the truth hesitation addition.

The remaining characters remain actually quite pale, because they also occur quite rarely. I thought that was not really bad. Some can even get so to read some more in subsequent books.

PLOT

History is moving fairly quickly and does not last long on with descriptions and digressions. So you have a continuous flow of reading and not have to wait forever for the next event. This is perhaps sometimes a reason why the supporting characters remain so pale. The story is mainly limited to Blake and Sam and the development of their relationship. The story was to a certain point in time not quite as predictable as I had initially thought, and I liked that, because I do have quite a long tapped in the dark. After this certain moment, however, everything was clear. On the whole, I was happy with the end - a happy ending is inevitable anyway. There were only a few things, which I then but was a little too plump. The solution, who is to blame and what is how to deal with it, I was somehow illogical and almost back to exaggerated. I want this not chalk up time that a nice coincidence follows another. This is allowed in such stories and should disturb this kind of books do not like. But in the end there was then but a few small details that I was stupid ~ simple in their design, because they came over just too melodramatic. In addition is the fact that I had rather hoped the finale on something else. It is in the book tells more than once something about Sam's deepest secret of her past, but this was not resolved as such in the end. I can imagine though that it should have been, but that this will be yet somehow casually mentioned times, without hint that this was now the secret, I found a little disappointing.

What has also struck me, if you have already read some books by Bybee, a certain style is that the author but pursued in their characters. A rich man and a less rich. The family is always friendly and takes the new warm on etc. If you read the once or twice, that's fine. I just hope that this will be not in its result books which will Bybee write yet, so. That would be a shame, because it bored doing the reader then at some point.

CONCLUSION

Despite a few drawbacks for me still a very entertaining book in between and for people who like to read at the moment Chick-Lit;) I thought it was not quite as good as the Not Quite-series, but I am still looking forward to the other Weekly -Bände.