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    Worst Date Ever
    Audiobook1 hour

    Worst Date Ever

    Written by Melodie Campbell

    Narrated by Michelle Monteith

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Jennie has been a widow for two years. Her twelve-year-old son thinks it's about time she started dating, and so does her best friend, Angela. So with Angela's help, Jennie signs up to an online dating site. Within hours, she has several dates lined up for the week. Surely there will be one Prince Charming in the bunch. And if not, it's only one date, right? How bad could it be?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
    ISBN9781459819269
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    Worst Date Ever
    Author

    Melodie Campbell

    Melodie Campbell is the winner of many awards for crime writing, including the Derringer and the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for The Goddaughter's Revenge. She has over 200 publications, including 100 comedy credits, 60 short stories, 17 novels and the Goddaughter series in the Rapid Reads line. Her work has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Star Magazine, Canadian Living, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and many more. She has been called the "Queen of Comedy" by the Toronto Star. Melodie lives in Burlington, Ontario.

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    • 4/5
      This was a fun, fast read. The story idea was amusing and I laughed aloud on several occasions. I would have loved to see more detail given to the disastrous dates. The conclusion was predictable, but I wanted Jenny and Dave to end up together, so the end did not bother me in the slightest.
    • 3/5
      Internet dating is the current big thing to have an unmarried character delve into whether on tv, in movies or novels. Due to the prevalence of internet dating, any book (novella in this case) using it as a major plot point really needs to strive to be unique.Worst Date Ever unfortunately hasn't done much to be unique except for perhaps the last date. Now, if the last date had actually been the second date and Jennie had several dates with him, perhaps this novella could have risen above average, but it didn't.Most romantic comedy novels are incorporating internet dating and blind dates because it is rife with possible slapstick moments. If you've read any Kristan Higgins novel, you know she incorporates at least one bad date in there. Why? Because it can be really funny.What struck me as completely ironic was when the judgmental Jennie who has been calling the un-Prince Charmings "Ronalds," is pretty much informed she's a Ronald and she gets her nose out of joint. But it didn't occur to her that's how she was treating the guys she was meeting.Due to its short length and its first person pov, I never really came to like Jennie. And, I certainly couldn't imagine taking two weeks of vacation from my job in order to find a man unless this were "Genie Grants My Wish" and I got to spend hours with the men of my dreams in order to decide which one I got to spend the rest of my days with kind of scenario. When you work hard, vacation should be spent in a much more pleasurable pursuit than an hour of weeding out internet dates per day.Finally, the ending was too predictable. Perhaps I hadn't guessed the nature of how it was all going to become wonderful, but I did guess the guy.Ultimately this is a pretty innocuous and average read and not the laughs I was hoping for.I won an ARC from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.
    • 2/5
      While I realize there isn't a lot of room for character development or a cliff hanger of a plot in a book of this length, I still felt disappointed. I could tell you exactly how this story would end within the first few pages, the characters were shallow and the backstory cliche. I have to say I am not inspired to pick up one of this author's longer novels.
    • 4/5
      This book held my interest. It took about an hour to read, maybe a little more so it is certainly a quick read. If a good, quick easy read is what you are looking for then Worst Date Ever could certainly fill that requirement.
    • 4/5
      This book was very fun to read. Cute story written in easy language, but still a book for adults to enjoy. Would be super for those adults that are learning to read or may be reluctant readers. They would be reading a book geared to and adult NOT an adult reading a book that is for a child to learn to read from. Glad I had a chance to read it. Thank you Early Reviewers.