Ok, I’m a few days late with this
post (apologies) but here we go...
The story behind the purchase of
this book wasn’t an actual intentional purchase but believe me if I saw this
book/cover online or in a bookshop, I absolutely would have bought it. I
attended an event last year, ‘Marie Claire – How to get Published’ (take a look
at http://shewhoscrivens.wordpress.com
to read about the event) and we were given a goody bag with A LOT of goodies
including ‘I heart New York’. Lindsey Kelk, the author, was there speaking
about her journey to publication and then she signed everyone’s copy of the
book. As I’ve already said I think she is a very lovely lady (she complimented
my dress – so I can say this even though I don’t actually know her). 
Anyway, on with the review of the
book. ‘I heart New York’ was published in 2009 and has several other titles
that followed it including ‘I heart Hollywood’ (2010), ‘I heart Paris’ (2010)
and ‘I heart London’ which was published this year.
So we follow the life of Angela
Clark, and I have to say the start was completely unexpected. As I started
reading, I thought ‘Great here we go again another wedding... the main
character is getting married, where exactly is this going’. I was caught completely
off guard, Angela’s narration is hilarious as she is walking up the aisle, you
think Angela is getting married, she isn’t - her best friend is. This is the
wedding where Angela’s life comes crashing down as she manages to completely trash
the wedding, make a slight scene, alongside breaking the grooms hand and the
event that caused all the mayhem was Angela catching her fiancée in a
compromising situation with another woman. Angela ups and leaves to New York (after
committing a very embarrassing and quite shocking act of revenge!), not knowing
anyone there and having never been there before she jets off... A lot to take
in the first chapter but I was hooked.
We follow Angela on her,
completely out of character, adventure and how by taking this brave, courageous,
plain stupid no no, impulsive action the world quite literally opens up with
all of these opportunities and experiences she would never have had, if all
that happened to her within those 24hours hadn’t happened. So we share Angela’s three weeks in the Big
Apple, we see everything through her eyes and it really is amazing. So to sum
up, because I don’t want to ruin this for any potential readers, she stays in a
hotel one of the concierge staff befriends her and basically takes her under
her wing. Through this friend she manages to get a major makeover and be fed
everything her heart could content, the most I’ve been offered from a hotel is
sandwiches and a safe journey home. She buys a brand new designer laden
wardrobe (thank goodness for credit cards and ‘multinational banks as she says)
and bags herself two men!! I know it all happens very fast. Oh, and she starts
to write a dating diary blog for a sister website of ‘The Look’ magazine.
Angela has these amazing three weeks where her life is ‘perfect’. But, as
always when you run away from your problems new ones pop up such as to be
dating two men at once and be writing about them on a website? To my relief she
gets rid of the ‘rich one’, I never really liked him as he quite clearly was a
slime ball but he did buy her a necklace from Tiffany’s, but still... She has the minor problem of needing to figure
out if she will go back to Britain or if she will set up permanent camp in NYC
after she’s offered a job back home by the London branch of the magazine? We
find out in the epilogue that she does take the job... but the rest is left on
a bit of a cliffhanger.
‘I heart New York’ was a great read,
full of one-liners (shoe-icide pg113 – it killed me) and it was really funny
and I think I will carry on with the series because Angela is a great
character! Also, I need to see what happens with ‘the one’ she might start
dating again.
‘I heart’ the very last part of
the book which is an actual guide to NCY!! When, if I ever get there (which I
most definitely intend to do) I will absolutely be making use of ‘Angela’s
Guide to NYC’... One dollar in my back pocket...NCY here I come!
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