this book...

K gave me this book to borrow because she said it had a really really wonderful amazing romantic ending. (Basically, its something she wants me to read so that she can gush to someone and someone will understand her when she gushes.)

She thinks its sooo good, in fact, that she made her fiance read the ending. And her sister!

I got the book on Monday and finished it last night.

Maybe she hyped it too much, but i suspect its just the cynic in me that has me disliking the ending.

To me, the whole book seems unrealistic, and it swings from extremes. Its set in Sydney. Maybe i just dont know the scene in which the characters in the book hover in. But the romantic aspect, i saw it coming a mile away, for that particular one.

It seems odd that someone can fall in love with another when they only meet based on chance (well you find out later that its been orchestrated to appear that way), and the pair only have half conversations. They never have a full conversation.

How can you fall in love with someone if the longest time you spent with them was in the process of rescuing a friend from being gang-banged by a bunch of wanna-be cowboys at a bush shin-dig???

The ending, is basically this...

Since the main character is from London, she came to Sydney to get away from her fiance who cheated on her with a pro...after a year working in Sydney and because she didnt think it would work with the one she supposedly "love", her visa ends and so she packs to go home.

At the airport she cries while in line to check-in...
"Fortunately I was so early for my flight there was no one there to see me, except for a kind man who materialised next to me at the counter and handed me a clean white cotton hanky."

And the kind man was...? You guessed it, the man she loves.

*awwwwww*

*pfft*

As if!

He then proceeds to tell her that he is coming to London too.

To be with her.

She asks him why is he coming to London too?

"Because I love you." He tells her.

*bleh*

And thats the ending. Romantic? Mushy? Gushy? Yeah, its all of that...and if i really believed in, i dont know, say love at first sight...then maybe i would be the one thinking that it was the most romantic, gorgeous, lovey thing on earth. But i dont.