A delightful new novel about being true to your heart--even when your heart feels like a traitor.
Like so many women, Shane Madison hates confrontation. But also like a lot of women, sometimes Shane just wants a guy to hit the road, and fast. The solution: get them to break up with her. She started honing her techniques after the first guy she dumped-way back in eleventh grade- threw a baseball bat at her car, and since then she's become a master at getting men to make the first move (in the other direction). She's even shared her secrets with her girlfriends.
But some men, it turns out, just aren't made for dumping. And Shane's kick-him-to-the-curb advice might just come back to kick her in the you-know-what, when she starts dating a gorgeous new guy-who, unbeknownst to her, is out for a little revenge after his last girlfriend took Shane's advice.
Alesia Holliday is the award-winning author of the novels Nice Girls Finish First and American Idle, the mystery Blondes Have More Felons, and the nonfiction book E-Mail to the Front: One Wife's Correspondence with Her Husband Overseas. She also writes fiction for teens under her pen name, Jax Abbott.
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January 02, 2007: It was a little bit slow in the beggining and sometimes a little immature, but in other parts I had to keep reading. Overall, an O.K. Read, although many other better selections out there.
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September 02, 2006: Seven Ways to Lose Your Lover gives us a whole new cast of fascinating characters. From Shane and 'Awful' Ben to Michel and Farren. People who act and react like real human beings. Ever done something that you know is really not quite right, yet, you rationalize and justify and finally just do it, all the while waiting for the other karmic shoe to drop? Meet Shane. Pressured by her need for money and a genuine affection for her boss, she ends up taking her Breakup Artist persona out of mothballs to help rid Lizzie of the attentions of 'Awful Ben'. This is a book about relationships and the intersecting of lives. I was entertained, I laughed and I wanted more. If you're looking for the great American novel, this isn't it. Not nearly gloomy or 'deep' enough. However, if you're looking to be entertained, laugh and feel good afterwards, this is your book.