Secrets To Happiness; Book Review

I am seriously afflicted with pregnancy brain. Or as my friend Jenny calls it, momnesia. My mind isn't what it used to be, and I don't anticipate it returning for a few more months at least. Maybe if I wasn't in the throes of my third trimester I would have been better able to appreciate the book Secrets To Happiness. As it were, I was totally and completely confused from page one through page 277. Just hopeless, I know.

The Hachette Book Group generously provided a copy of Secrets To Happiness, by Sarah Dunn, for my review. Bless their hearts, I bet they weren't expecting me and my fuzzy brain to come along.

Holly Frick has just endured the worst kind of breakup: the kind where you're still in love with the person leaving you. While her wounds are still dangerously close to the surface, her happily married best friend confesses over a bottle of wine that she is this close to having an affair. And another woman comes to Holly for advice about her love life--with Holly's ex!

Holly decides that if everyone around her can take pleasure wherever they find it, so will she. As any self-respecting 30ish New York woman would do, she brings two males into her life: a flawed but endearing dog, and a good natured, much younger lover. She's soon entangled in a web of emails, chance meetings, and misguided good intentions and must forge an entirely new path to Nirvana.

From the author of The Big Love, Secrets to Happiness is a big-hearted, knife-sharp, and hilariously entertaining story about the perils of love and friendship, sex and betrayal--and a thoroughly modern take on our struggle to be happy.

I'm sure it's the fault of my pregnancy-addled brain, but I just couldn't keep up with the characters in this book. The story line jumped back and forth so much I was constantly trying to figure out who was who. I couldn't keep names straight, and I couldn't remember who had done what or who.

If you're a fan of chick-lit, I think you'd probably enjoy this novel. It had all the elements that make up a good chick-lit story: female best friends, many many male love interests, a big city and cute dogs. Maybe I should have saved it for a time when I'm not pregnant? Take a sneak peek below and tell me what you think.