About A Girl By Lindsey Kelk

[amazon_link id=”0007497989″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]’About A Girl’ is the first book in Lindsey Kelk’s new series.

Tess Brooke’s has always been a Girl with a Plan. But when her carefully constructed Plan goes belly up, she’s forced to reconsider. After accidentally answering her flatmate Vanessa’s phone, she decides that since being Tess isn’t going so well, why shouldn’t she try out being Vanessa? With nothing left to lose, she accepts Vanessa’s photography assignment to Hawaii – she used to be an amateur photographer, how hard can it be? Right? But soon Tess is in big trouble – she isn’t a photographer, she isn’t Vanessa and the gorgeous journalist on the shoot with her, who is making it very clear that he’d like to get into her pants, is an egotistical monster. Far from home and in someone else’s shoes, Tess must decide whether to fight on through or confess and run.

This will be a big shock to female fiction fans, but I have never read any of Lindsey Kelk’s books before. I know that she already has a successful book series and it is definitely a series of books that I will look into at a later date when I manage to gain some control over my own TBR pile. But, I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed ‘About A Girl’, which was a wonderfully uplifting story of friendship, love, cocktails and trying to find your place in the big wide world.

The story starts in the present day as our protagonist of the story, the lovely, bubbly, low in confidence but terribly creative Tess takes centre stage and all the drama of the last two weeks unfolds and Tess finds herself in an unfortunate situation that leaves her jobless, friendless and suddenly on a plane to Hawaii pretending to be Vanessa, her slightly nutty and bitchy flatmate and on her way to a major fashion shoot as a photographer.

It is fair to say that not everything goes to plan, but in between hilarious drunken antics, karaoke, a gloriously hunky journalist and a wise old man, we join Tess as she tries to figure out what her plans are in life and more importantly discovers her true self. Cleverly written with an riveting plot that had me giggling throughout, the story is filled with an wonderful array of outrageous characters from the lovely Tess, to her best friend Amy, a fiery and outspoken pixie who has quite a colourful dialect and the stereotypical catty gay gentleman Kekipi who has an eye for style and was always close by when Tess needed a shoulder or to have a gossip with and not mentioning all good looking men that seemed to have caught Tess’s eye, her best friend Charlie who she has been in love for the last few years and the delicious Nick, smug, arrogant and completely irresistible.

‘About A Girl’ is a beautifully vibrant story that is most definitely the ideal escapism story, if you haven’t booked a holiday, simply read this book. Set in the simply divine Hawaii, packed with beautifully and picturesque settings and scenes that will give you a glow and excitedly left open for a sequel, this is definitely a new series I will be looking into!

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