Back home and forced into a 'date' by their parents, Ally and her first ever beard, Jeremy, come up with a ridiculous plan to win their exes back... to revenge-run a half marathon. Given neither of them can run, they enlist the support of athletic, not to mention beautiful, Jo. But will she have them running for the hills... or will their ridiculous plan pay off...?
Oh wow, I loved this book so much! So many f-f novels I read are American, and they’re perfectly lovely, but the thing they lack (obviously) is a British sense of humour injection and British cultural references. And this book had those in spades.
There were points when I thought Ally was a bit childish, and I didn’t really see what Emily had done wrong (apart from the cheating) in dumping her, but on the whole I liked her. I especially liked her friendship with Jeremy (yes yes yes to taking KeepCups of wine into the school disco you’ve been drafted into helping out at).
The plot rocked along quite nicely and kept me reading when I was supposed to be doing other things which is always a good sign. I especially liked the tension not coming from the fact that Ally is gay, and that that wasn’t even an issue.
I’d definitely recommend this one and yes please to more British humourous lesbian novels, please, publishers!
5 stars