OK. Here's the deal-io. Someone reccomended this book to me. After seeing it on my TBR shelf, Faeth kindly sent me an ecopy. I very much appreciate all ARC's & DRC's that I receive. Always welcome. The downside of this is reviewing a book unfavorably, especially when an author has personally sent the book in question. I'm not a fan of writing negative reviews. I prefer to be fair and because I'm fair, I thought it best to stop reading this book. Here's why. I feel that in order to give a fair review one must be the correct target audience. I'm all wrong for this book. In my opinion, Chat Love should be read by a younger crowd, say early twenties to early thirties. It might be enjoyed by the single crowd, those experiencing the horrors of modern dating. I'm 46 and happily married to my best friend. Although I understand the plight of the characters, I can't relate so I think it best if I bow out now and leave the fun to the hip youngsters. It IS fun and does kinda have the Sex in the City vibe going for it. If that's your thing, you'll like Chat Love.

*DNF and therefore will not rate.

I came across this book when a family member cleaned out their house and sent us a big box of old books. This was in one of the boxes. The book covers had all sorts of praise quotes on how the book is better than The Godfather, yadda yadda. Since I am fan of Puzo's novel, I figured I would take it for a spin.

Well, after two weeks trying to get into it, I finally quit at almost 100 pages into it. To be honest, not much of anything happens. It's a bunch of mundane, barely memorable characters going through motions. Nothing really happens, and that is a problem. I guess the author is trying to do the exposition and set things up, but for a supposed blockbuster mob novel that allegedly has violence, sex, etc., well, I did not see any of that. This was probably one of the most boring books I have come across in a while. It may have been a bestseller back in 1969 or so when it came out, but I can see why it is pretty much a forgotten book. By the way, it has dated quite a bit, so it does not really hold up. I gave it one star to indicate I dislike it (to rate it), but I do not recommend this. You come across this, just leave it there and move on.