{"id":131,"date":"2012-11-09T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=131"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:07","slug":"love-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/love-stuck","title":{"rendered":"Love Stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/tag\/2-hearts-award\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/2hearts.gif\" alt=\"Love Stuck - Susie Gilmore - 2 hearts award\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Susie Gilmore&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0010XPOK2\/lawless03-20\">Love Stuck<\/a> is based on a cute idea: the protagonist can&#8217;t decide between two men, so about halfway through the book, she leaves it up to you: read only the left-hand pages for Bachelor #1, and only the right-hand pages for Bachelor #2. When I was a kid, I loved the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1933390913\/lawless03-20\">Choose Your Own Adventure books<\/a>, and combining that technique with chick lit sounded like fun. Unfortunately for <i>Love Stuck<\/i>, cute and fun don&#8217;t make up for other shortcomings, like the jarring switches between first and third person, and the fact that one of the bachelors is a complete jerk, so it makes no sense that he&#8217;s even in the running. Also SPOILERS<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>SPOILERS<\/p>\n<p>Also, as I fully expected, when I got to the end of the story based on the guy I picked, she decided he wasn&#8217;t the one after all, so then I had to go back and read about the other guy. This didn&#8217;t quite work, since for the sake of continuity, certain storyline were repeated (e.g., losing her job) that couldn&#8217;t have occurred twice but needed to be there because the author didn&#8217;t know which guy you&#8217;d pick first. Also, of course, when you get to the end of the second guy&#8217;s story, Jess decides he&#8217;s not the one either, so then there was a short epilogue with the requisite happy ever after ending. I don&#8217;t know, it just really didn&#8217;t work for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susie Gilmore&#8217;s Love Stuck is based on a cute idea: the protagonist can&#8217;t decide between two men, so about halfway through the book, she leaves it up to you: read only the left-hand pages for Bachelor #1, and only the right-hand pages for Bachelor #2. When I was a kid, I loved the Choose Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,25],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit-books","tag-2-hearts-award","tag-english-chick-lit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrK2-27","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}