Instant Love- Jami Attenberg

I need to state immediately that while I will occasionally read a chick lit book or 5, I’m in no way a huge fan of these modern version fairy tales where the girl ends up getting her perfect man after countless numbers of mishaps. I don’t know why, but the happy ending presented in a prettily wrapped Tiffany’s box always irks me. Call me a cynic. Which is why I thoroughly enjoyed Instant Love so much! There is no happy ending for the female characters, they struggle and hurt and have flaws like the rest of us, and NYC makes many appearances. The characters are all interconnected, but with no major resolution to that- there is simply just a common thread uniting them all. I think I would have preferred for the chapters to just be independent short stories, with no character connection. The stories were strong enough to stand on their own, and I would have been able to spend more time enjoying the stories instead of trying to remember who date whom and which one stuttered.

4 bookworms- ½ a bookworm was added solely because the East Village was occasionally the setting, and not 5^th Avenue. Nice!