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Reviewed by Jennifer Joyce
Sneaking onto a boat on the river Thames for an extravagant event, Angie is alarmed when she bumps into her school friend, Fiona. Technically, Angie hasn’t been invited to the event and is pretending to be Lady Beaverwood, who was invited so she’s worried Fiona may blow her cover. But the pair find themselves picking up their friendship and Fiona has a proposition for Angie.
With both women feeling that their marriages have grown stale and with access to a luxurious apartment every Thursday, Angie suggests the friends forget about timesharing an apartment and timeshare a lover instead.
The women devise a list of rules that they must play by while dating their timeshare lover, but will they be able to stick the rules? And will their newly-resumed friendship survive?
I found it quite difficult to get into Rule For Thursday Lovers to begin with as we are quickly introduced to the characters of Angie and Fiona and thrown into the situation without any solid information of who the women are and why they would come up with such a bizarre plan. I felt that there were a lot of flowery words but no real substance. I would have liked some more background and depth so that I could warm to the characters more. I didn’t feel like I knew the women at all as the plan was devised and therefore felt little connection for them or their plight.
There are some humorous aspects to the book, which helped to lift the book for me but it really wasn’t enough to draw me into the book and so I was never really invested in the women’s stories. It’s quite a quirky book with a lot of fun and witty situations that Angie and Fiona find themselves in but sadly I wasn’t bowled over by it.
6/10