I absolutely loved When I Married My Mother (especially now that I am my own Mom's caretaker) so when I heard Jo Maeder had released a new book, Opposites Attack I immediately downloaded it. I thought I would read it when I was not watching a movie on a transatlantic flight. Well, needless to say I watched nothing at all but kept my nose in her book. It was such fun to get to know the characters and I could almost taste the food and enjoy the company!By the time I finished the book, I was in Rwanda and wanting to change all my plans and hop back on a plane for France!Too bad she hasn't released another book to keep me enthralled for the long trip back! Opposites Attack by Jo Maeder is a romance novel I got from Amazon just because I liked the cover. I didn’t even read the synopsis. Now that I’ve read it and loved it, I’m thinking about ordering the paperback. It looks lovely and the book is fun too. It deserves a spot on my bookshelf!This books is about a girl supposedly going to France to learn the language. The blunders she makes are hilarious! I study languages and French is one of them. I do understand her confusion and such. French can be really tricky sometimes. I used to make silly mistakes too. It’s funny reading about someone else doing the same. As she makes progress the story develops. The pace is perfect.I love how the author explains all the aspects of learning a new language. Part of this process is also learning about the culture where said language is spoken. I’m sure many people think they know a lot about France. But just because you know about fashion, cheese, wine and the Eiffel Tower doesn’t mean you know the French culture. There’s more to it than that and this book shows that perfectly.The book includes fabulous recipes. Just reading/thinking about them makes my mouth water. Yuuuum…I would really appreciate some French delicacy right now.To sum up: this was definitely a very fun book to read. You have to check it out. It’s written in such a different perspective from everything else I’ve read lately. There should really be more books with this kind of setting. You know what I’m talking about. I think.Rating - 5 stars. There wasn’t really anything I disliked about this book. This is a rare occasion. It should go down in history.Who would I recommend it to - Everyone
I got this for free for my kindle, I enjoyed it, most free romance novels are not nearly this good.
—TJ101
It was fine. Different than I expected and I felt like the description was a little misleading.
—Paula
Entertaining. I loved the new French terms I learned and the setting was "parfait".
—Taylor
This is the best book I have read for pleasure this summer.
—CORN
nope... just nope...
—farhan
