BILLY AND ME
BY GIOVANNI FLETCHER
SYNOPSIS:
In this utterly sweet and moving women's fiction novel, a celebrity comes to town and sweeps a young woman - who is used to being overlooked - off her feet.Sophie May is content with her life in her small English village, working in the local coffee shop and living with her mom. But when famous actor Billy comes to town to play Mr. Darcy in a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Sophie's quiet life is quickly turned on its head. Billy is adored by women around the world, but he only wants Sophie on his arm. But being with Billy comes at a price, and Sophie is thrown in the spotlight after years of shying away from attention. Can she handle the constant scrutiny that comes with being with Billy?
Brimming with humor, wit, and genuine warmth, Billy and Me is a book about taking a chance on life and on love.
REVIEW:
"Billy and Me" was such a fun read! The author, Giovanna Fletcher, featured a young woman from a small village who falls for a movie star. He falls for her as well and the story is off! Sophie's character is very well rounded and her back story is well explained. The only part of the story that I didn't like was Sophie's behavior after she and Billy parted ways. I found her to be simpering and she seemed so overly dependent on Billy that I couldn't root for them to get back together.
I enjoyed the supporting characters as well. Even though you know when you start reading that there will be a happy ending, the story still captures your attention.
Billy and Me' follows Sophie and (surprise) Billy. Billy started his career as an actor in a teen-movie, but now wants to play more grown-up roles. So while preparing for filming a new version of 'pride & prejudice' in the small village where Sophie lives, he walks into the tea shop she works in. They begin talking and even pracitsing his lines together. Of course, they fall for each other, but it's not so easy for Sophie, what with her experiences in the past to suddenly be in the spotlight.
I really liked this book, altough it was not as good as 'you're the one that I want'. Sometimes I had the feeling that Sophie is A BIT behind the times. When Billy first walked into the tea shop she didn't recognize him. I mean ok, when you're not paying attention to anything happening in the media or something, or if you totally block out the world you may not know an actor who gets more famous by the minute. Maybe neither when you're 70 years old or whatever. But Sophie is a twenty-something and I guess at that age you can hardly escape such famous people, can you? They're everywhere, even if you don't want to hear anything about them. But that's just my opinion. Also, everytime she cries, there's a remarkably amount of snot coming out of her nose I guess, because it was stated every single time :D
The love-story happend quite quickly in a way. Usually, the two respective lovebirds fancy each other, then there are some problems or something and then follows the happy end. But with this story it was a little bit different. At least it felt kind of different. They became a couple quite fast and Sophie was instantly the love of Billy's life and so on. It was quite a nice change to the stories I usually read (even if it was probably not that big of a change, really). The ending of the story was really sad and after being sad really cute. I liked that very much!
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