Actual Rating: 4.5 Stars

I have decided. I am going to marry a businessman with rumpled black hair who works at a consulting firm in England.

This may not seem very realistic, but it's better than when I wanted to marry a mobster. Hmm, a mobster disguised as a businessman...

Okay. Whatever. At the very least, Sam and Poppy must marry each other and pop out dark haired British babies. That is the only way it can be done.

I really enjoyed the incorporation of text and e-mail. Kinsella does it well so that it doesn't hinder us from understanding the characters more, because there are still quite a bit of face-to-face meetings between Sam and Poppy. At the same time, the messages all have their own significance, and I definitely appreciated that. This has been the best Sophie Kinsella book I've read to date; Sam is probably my favorite male lead so far. He's sweet, a bit terse (okay, not just a bit), but exactly what I would want in a guy. In addition, all the characters were likable, especially Poppy, who has delightful train of thought and is adorably sincere and real.

I especially liked the little mysteries about the corporation, Magnus, etc. Those were a nice surprise, and I was actually pretty shocked at the way things fit together in the end. This book was a great break from all the intense love-or-die teen romances I've been reading, and I'm considering reading Kinsella's shopaholic series since I've gotten over the chronic embarrassment all of her characters go through. The one thing I didn't like is a problem I usually find with reads such as these--just as the characters have surmounted all challenges and gotten together amidst bells and applause (literally!), the book ends. And I get so frustrated because I want to know. I want to know if they'll have cute babies. I want to know if they name one Sam Jr. I want to know everything about them.

Ahem. So, anyway. I liked this book.