20 TIMES A LADY
KARYN BOSNAK
ISBN# 978-0-06-082835-6
June 2006
Harper Collins Publishers
10 East 53rd Street, New York NY 10022
Paperback
$13.95
352 Pages
Fiction
Rating: 4 Cups

Delilah Darling’s number is up, in more ways than one, and she is searching for a way out of a lifetime of celibacy. She always wondered if she let Mr. Right get away, and now that she has lost her job, she has all the time in the world to find out. Can you say ‘road trip’?

Colin Brody is Delilah’s neighbor and happy to volunteer his services as a private investigator to help her find single guys for this so-called party she is throwing. While he does so, he finds himself drawn into her wacky life by her mother and friends.

When Delilah reads a sex survey in the paper and realizes that she is way over her sex limit, she decides that twenty will be her stopping point on men. However, when after one too many drinks she finds herself in bed with her nasty ex-boss and panics, she goes on the search through her ex-lovers that is nothing short of hilarious. What she ends up with is a new dog and a new take on love. Could her first love be ‘the one’, or is her actor/P.I. neighbor destined to be more than a friend? Will her mother ever be happy for her? Will Daisy, her oh so happy and soon to be married sister, stop making her look bad?

This book made me laugh from the first paragraph to the last. I loved Delilah and her little dog, too. Her trek through her past loves makes a person realize that they should not look back, but that if they do they should do it without regret. However, if I had to look back, I would hope I could at least have someone half as funny to write about as her Mr. Wrongs, because Delilah had some stinkers. The author made the heroine realistic, not perfect. She made me laugh, cry, and want to smack her too, but I cheered when she got what I think she deserved in the end. 20 Times a Lady has one hundred times the laughs. I hope you will give it a try; I am so happy I did.

Jenn
Reviewer For Coffee Time Romance
Reviewer For Karen Talk About New Books