Karens Best Friend By Laura Jane Leigh

Kindle Karens Best friend

I found Karen s character to be very irritating 147 Totally boring 147 Karen is a young widow still mourning her husband ten months after his death Financial difficulties force her to work long hours at a job she hates The one bright spot in her life is her little daughter Cindi One morning Karen decides to pick herself up and start again The first step is to go back to college If she finishes her degree she can have the career she wants as a teacher of French The problem is she can t afford to take time off unless she finds a cheaper place to live A solution arrives in the form of her old friend Jim He s on a tight budget too and he needs someone to share his apartment Karen foresees difficulties if she moves in with a man Jim though reassures her There s no chemistry no spark It should be easy to live together as just friends Thinking matters over Karen agrees After all Jim is the kind of man she calls a Mr Nice Guy good natured and funny but not physically attractive Soon she and her daughter have settled in Life is pleasant but dull until the employment agency calls with an ideal assignment six days at a legal conference in Venice In that dream like city she meets Mark Lebrun a man she sees as a fairy tale prince Handsome and rich he makes life easy for Karen Unfortunately her friend Manon dislikes him And Karen herself begins to notice flaws in his character But she confronts Mark and he promises to change In the meantime Jim has been dating Manon She encourages him to lose weight and work out at the gym Soon women begin to notice him And Karen is one of them As problems worsen with Mark she wonders has she been looking for love in the wrong place And when she decides what she really wants will it be too late Karens Best Friend Freebie 11 15 2012 147 Very average chick lit romance 147 Was quite a good book Enjoyed it to get me back into reading again 147 the cover of this book really caught my eye I expected a breathtaking story and a heart wrenching romance but that s not what I got Rather I read a book that I merely finished because I had started it I certainly did not continue to read to find out what happened because that could be predicted fairly early in Nothing stood out as being really wrong with this book nor was it anything very special 147 This book was jus Meh for me I could figure out exactly where the book was going way before it got there 147