December 15, 2007
When Marla gives her best frienda journal before Gwen heads up the coast for a weekend trip to a wedding with her boyfriend, Coop, Marla never imagines Gwen will fill the journaland several morewith a detailed accounting of the ups and downs of the weekend. Thedownside comes in the form of Dannika, Coops beautiful, blond yoga-instructor pal who is along for the road trip. Coop and Dannika have been friends since college, but Gwen, who has jealousy issues under the best of circumstances, is seeing red. It doesnt help that she and Dannika get off to a bad start, or that Dannika is superpossessive of Coop. Gwen, who has fallen hard for Coop, tries to keep her insecurities at bay but finds herself confronting them head on when her unfaithful father, who divorced her mother when Gwen was nine, turns out to be a guest at the wedding. With her fifties-style clothing and perky, appealing voice, Gwen is a true original, one readers will definitely take to in Gehrmans breezy page-turner.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)