When Polly Met Olly
Polly might spend
her days searching for eligible matches for her elite list of clients
at her New York dating agency, but her own love life is starting to
go up in smoke.
Even worse, she
can’t stop thinking about the very person she’s meant to be
setting her latest client up with… surely it can’t get any worse!
But then Polly
bumps into oh-so-handsome Olly, who heads up a rival agency, and
realizes that perhaps all really is fair in love and dating war…
Perfect for fans
of Sophie Kinsella and Debbie Viggiano.
At
her
time of need, British implant in New York, Polly, acknowledges having
the means of paying her rent is more important than struggling to
make ends meet as a photographer. The result, she lands a job at To
The Moon and Back, a
dating
agency.
When her new boss Derek asks her to check out their main rival, Polly
masquerades as a chartered surveyor looking for love. On arrival at
Elite Love Match, she's greeted by the charismatic owner Olly and
realises she might be in the market to find love too.
The hilarious narrative is set against the competitive dating scene in Manhattan. The secondary characters shone brighter than the protagonists for the most of the story where they support Polly in and around her new job...one she's surprisingly good at. I only felt the connection to her and Olly around three-quarters of the way into the book. Once I passed this mark, I began to feel the attraction between them as I became invested in them as a couple.
I like how the author challenges the reader by making this a May to December romance. Polly and Olly at their point of meeting don't seem like a good match for a potential long term relationship. Yet, as we get to know more about their backgrounds, it becomes clear their differing ages are not an issue as both are at a point in their lives where they are re-assessing what is important to them including the tentative attraction to each another.
Overall, this is a fun and flirty novel full of laugh-out-loud playful banter. If you're looking for a novel with fascinating characters set in an imaginative, yet realistic story, you'll love this. It's a perfect beach read.
The hilarious narrative is set against the competitive dating scene in Manhattan. The secondary characters shone brighter than the protagonists for the most of the story where they support Polly in and around her new job...one she's surprisingly good at. I only felt the connection to her and Olly around three-quarters of the way into the book. Once I passed this mark, I began to feel the attraction between them as I became invested in them as a couple.
I like how the author challenges the reader by making this a May to December romance. Polly and Olly at their point of meeting don't seem like a good match for a potential long term relationship. Yet, as we get to know more about their backgrounds, it becomes clear their differing ages are not an issue as both are at a point in their lives where they are re-assessing what is important to them including the tentative attraction to each another.
Overall, this is a fun and flirty novel full of laugh-out-loud playful banter. If you're looking for a novel with fascinating characters set in an imaginative, yet realistic story, you'll love this. It's a perfect beach read.
***review
copy generously received courtesy of HQ Digital via NetGalley***
Perfect Match was one of Apple's top-selling books of 2018. It was also shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association's Joan Hessayon Award, with judges describing it as 'a laugh out loud look at love and self-discovery - fresh and very funny'.
As well as writing, Zoe enjoys walking her dog, painting and, of course, reading
