Review of Venus Envy

Originally written July, 1, 2007

So I got done reading Venus Envy by Shannon MeKeldon. Great great book! I finished it in one and a half sittings. I recommend it for a nice beach read, or if you're on a plane or something this summer.

It's a great romantic comedy about this girl, Rachel, who has been burned by three horrid relationships with losers, so she swears off dating and buries herself into volunteer work to get her mind off her life. Little does she know, that Venus, the goddess of love, has chosen her as a "fairy godchild" to help get her love life back in order. Hilarity and a wonderful comedy of errors ensues while Rachel tries to get rid of Venus and get her life back in order, and also fighting off the advances of Luke, the guy Venus is trying to set her up with.

It took a few chapters to get into the style of the book. The first chapter starts out with Rachel's point of view, then each chapter after that switches from Venus to Rachel, and so on. But it's nicely done, so you can see each person's point of view of the same events, and it's fun to see Venus' side of things, very funny.

It's reminiscent of Stupid and Contagious by Caprice Crane (I also highly recommend that book as well!), where each chapter is in the POV of one of the two main characters. I bought this book on an impulse as I was wandering around a Barnes & Noble, and I had promised myself I wasn't going to buy a book... but I did. It's hard to work at a B&N and not buy a book.

But I'm overly glad I did give into temptation and buy it. Love this book! It's Ms. McKeldon's first novel, and it's a fantastic debut. Very light, airy, a good summer read, but you'll get wrapped up in the characters' lives; by the end I was almost screaming at Rachel to just accept that Luke was meant for her and just get on with it! Hehehe. So yeah. Go read it. Now. ^__^ 

I rate Venus Envy a good solid 8.5 on my scale of 1 (hari kari) to 1 (literary orgasmic bliss). Stupid and Contagious, which I will write a proper review of in the near future, I rate a very high 9. That book you need to go out and buy now.