Book Review: Around the World in Stilettos
Around the World in Stilettos by Natalie-Jane Revell
Narrator: Cori Samuel
Length: 6 hours and 12 minutes
Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc
Release Date: October 13, 2011
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Sophie is a 23 year-old travel writer who loves shoes. She’s also extremely clumsy and flighty. She has a secret crush on her writing and traveling partner Dan. Unfortunately, he has a serious girlfriend even though it seems at times that he is interested in Sophie. Things get complicated for Sophie when she meets James. Should she wait for Dan to come to his senses and leave his girlfriend for her or should she pursue a relationship with James?
This book is written by a British author and set in England. I felt like it was trying too hard to be like Bridget Jones’s Diary or the Shopaholic books. Sophie was charming and I found her antics mildly amusing but the humor seemed forced at times. I was confused because Dan kept telling Sophie that James was a jerk and she was too good for him in a manner that suggested he knew something about James that Sophie didn’t. Sophie’s roommate also acted like she knew something about James. Nothing about James was ever revealed though.
I listened to the audio version of this book which was narrated by Cori Samuel. She did a great job even with the voices of the male characters. This was a good book to listen to in the car because it didn’t require a lot of concentration.
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(I received this audio book courtesy of the Solid Gold Reviewers program at Audio Jukebox.)
