How to Plot a Payback

This was so adorable!

I love a good chick lit book, but it’s so rare that they’re actually good–meaning they don’t fall too heavily into overdone tropes or formulas, and the characters feel believable. It’s also VERY rare to find one that’s clean. This book checks all those boxes. It’s original: Lavender and Finn are both British, and they attended uni together. But while there, Finn was cast as Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” while Lavender was his understudy. (I didn’t realize that the gender of the character was unimportant.) Lavender, notoriously oblivious to her surroundings, left a trap door open, Finn didn’t see it, and fell through, shattering his ankle. Naturally this meant that Lavender played the role–and there was a talent scout in the audience. So she got “discovered,” and it launched her long-standing sitcom career. Finn, meanwhile, nursed a grudge, though she had no idea.

This isn’t the only reason he has to hate Lavender though–she managed to completely unknowingly screw up his life in a myriad of other ways too, but she was so clueless that she couldn’t even recall ever meeting him when they run into each other on the set of “Neighbors” (which I’m sure was inspired by “Friends”), where Finn becomes one of the writers. Now that he has power over her character, he intends to find some way to get even… only every attempt backfires, and the endearing Lavender even thinks he had the best of intentions.

It’s sweet, fluffy, and satisfying– everything a good chick lit book should be.

My rating: *****

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