My third Moyes read, following the terrific
Me Before You and the not-terrific-but-still-good
The Girl You Left Behind. One Plus One falls into the latter category. It's the story of Jess, a fine young woman whose life has jumped the tracks, with a lousy job, a damaged stepson, and a math-genius daughter. At a desperate turning point in her life she meets Ed, a wealthy software whiz who's made some incredibly dopey decisions. Incredible is the word here - the plot is so implausible that the book should stink, but Moyes creates believable characters with excellent dialogue and interior voices so that the plot hardly matters. She's cranking them out very quickly these days - we have Silver Bay and The Ship of Brides yet to come in 2014 alone - and I worry that my favorite light pleasure reads may lose their appeal. We'll see.
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