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The Plus One Escape with the hottest laughoutloud summer holiday read for 2019! edition by Sophia MoneyCoutts Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

• I didn’t really laugh or find the story all that funny. There were some highly enjoyable moments and some parts that dragged. Emotional connection with the characters is a huge part of reading for me and I didn’t feel all that invested. Parts of my lack of investment lead me to not be overly thrilled or devastated when the plot shifted. Overall, it was a good read, but nothing that suited what I was looking for at the moment.
• Sophia Money-Coutts has written the best book I've read this year. Beautiful writing style, super realistic scenes, truly felt emotions, I couldn't ask for more! Be prepared to look up British slang, it's so wonderfully different! I'm feeling fairly fluent in British English now! Please read this book, you won't regret it!
• I totally skipped from Chapter 8 to the epilogue . Just too slow moving for me. Polly is just not interesting to me and her problems are largely self-made, except for her mother. At 35% I stopped and jumped forward to see if I was right about the ending.
• I enjoy British lit so when I saw a review for this book I ordered it right away...and I'm so glad I did! It was a fun read and I stayed up way past my bedtime reading because I was so caught up in the stories of the characters. Definitely recommend the book and can't wait for Money-Coutts next book!
• Hilarious, superb writing, I felt like I was actually front and center, the tears, the laughs, her hangovers! Love it!
• The Plus One,  Sophia Money-Coutts
  
  Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews
  
  Genre  Women's Fiction, Romance
  
  Gah! Once more “women's fiction”, and as usual I have to have a quick moan – why do we do this – cut off potential readers? Who says men won't/don't read romance, they certainly write it, so why exclude them this way?
  
  So, the book. A debut novel and one that's really well written, and I loved the dry humour, and the realness of it.
  Loved Polly and her friends, her job at the magazine, very typically British Tatler style ;-) Poor Polly is approaching 30 though and feels that her time is running out, she wants a husband and family, but fears she's destined to be the mothball scented, elderly, maiden aunt...especially now her bestie is getting married and she's Matron of Honour and doesn't have a Plus One.
  I loved her relationship with her mum, and her support when her mum gets ill, the fears they both have that anyone who's been ill can understand.
  
  Its a fun read, made me smile in parts, sad in others and very very typically British. As a Brit I love that, we seem to have a slightly different sense of humour and the more subtle approach as here worked so well for me.
  Sadly the about turn at the end didn't work for me, I didn't feel it was real, hadn't got a sense of it coming throughout the novel, and TBH really let it down for me. With a different ending, the one that I kind of felt had been building I'd have given this a five, but as it is that change really let the story down IMO. Not the resolution I wanted -( I felt kind of unsatisfied, and cheated of what I'd expected it to be. Surprises are good, this one was just too much of a shock, IMO, and didn't gel with the rest of the story.
  
  Stars Three and a half, a terrific book right up to that turnaround at the end!
  
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• 3.5 rounded UP because the whole novel was great fun to read.
  This really was a perfect summer read to 'put your feet up and relax'. The Plus One has a high Bridget Jones vibe although Polly is a much cooler and fun person than Bridget and she's certainly not as clumsy and insecure, so I think I actually like her a whole lot more!
  
  She doesn't have the most interesting job at a magazine called Posh! but I must say it did make for some very entertaining reading. Her job includes writing articles about the new IT-dog (because the rich have an obsession for horses, and dogs come a close second), finding baby scans so they know who the little ones can become friends with when born, to being sent to places she'd normally never go for the best scoop... like interviewing the new singleton marquess at his parent's castle, or attending 'special and top secret' parties frequented by people of the high classes.
  
  The Plus One isn't full of fairytales... although now that I think of it, the book does include a castle, a sheikh, a gold bath, bidet and loo seat... but at least in the bedroom department, when it comes down to it, it was hilarious and brutally honest -). The many struggles and thoughts flashing through Polly's head were super funny and made me snort OUT LOUD. Yep, damn this book.
  
  I think you get the idea what type of novel it is -). If you read this you're bound to get along with and root for Polly. Now there is a very serious health issue in this novel as well which makes it sometimes a bit more serious but overall this is just a fun chicklit novel that will transport you to a whole other world. I came to realise that even the rich and famous don't have the perfect lives and you can find sleazebags in every layer of society -). I was a fan of the colorful cast in the novel, her gay roommate Joe, best friend Lex, colleagues Lala and Legs, old friend Bill, but I would have liked to see their own lives more in detail too and missed a bit more intrigue and drama perhaps. The ending left me completely satisfied though, I saw what was coming but was very happy the way it ended.
• The Plus One by Sophia Money-Coutts a four-star read that will fizzle. I like a good girlie read, the drama and funnies, and this one on the surface does all that, but it does miss some pop. Polly made me chuckle at several different points in the story, but then she also made me rolls my eyes. I feel like if you are single you will love this book as Polly will make you chuckle at things you do yourself and make you realise dating is hard and you do need to laugh at life at times. Polly was good but the rest of the characters were just as much a part of the story and they each played their own part telling their story, some I liked more than others. I will admit reading Polly interact with her mum, made me give mine a call and make sure she knows how much I love her. If you are after a great summer read this is the one for you.