Even the most wary readers of chick lit will fall in love with Pinch Me and author, Adena Halpern.Īfter having my fair share of awful dates and men who have treated me badly, I was excited to read a novel based on the premise that the main character has to date these types of men because she is cursed. There were many more funny moments to be found in this book. What was wrong with Ethel cries Dolly, Lilly’s grandma. I told you to name her something less attractive.

The conversation went like this: “Why didn’t we force her into lesbianism?” Lily’s mom states. My favorite moment in the book was when Lily informed her mom and grandma that she was getting married. The only way you could get me to stop reading this book was to “Pinch Me”. This is a comedic book that will have you smiling the whole time. Lily must find a way to break the curse or lose Gogo forever. As soon as Gogo pinches Lily, she is transported back to her house and Gogo does not remember Lily. Lily does not believe in the curse but she will witness how true it is when she tells Gogo to pinch her as she cannot believe her good fortune that she has married a good man. The only way to have a man stay is to marry a ugly man. If they marry a man for love than something will happen to him. Both Lily’s mother and grandma warn Lily that marrying Gogo will only lead to heart break. Lily receives a surprise when Gogo proposes to at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Lily has been dating Gogo for just a short period. If you are to marry, make sure it is to a ugly man. This could be because both her mom and grandma have warned her that all men are evil and to never marry for love. In this modern fairy tale, Lily must find a way to break the curse and turn her nightmare back into a dream come true. When Lily tracks him down, she finds that he’s married to someone else and has no memory of her. The moment he does, Lily finds herself transported back to the house she lived in when she was single. Unable to believe her good fortune, Lily asks Gogo to pinch her-to make sure all this isn’t just a dream. If she marries for love, there will be unimaginable consequences. They decide it’s time to tell her the truth: their family is cursed. When she agrees to marry him, Dolly and Selma are inconsolable. Despite this, when she meets Gogo, the handsome, successful pediatrician who treats her like a queen, she has no choice but to let her heart take over. “Never marry a man unless he’s short, bald, fat, stupid, and treats you badly.” That is the advice that twenty-nine-year-old Lily Burns has heard her entire life from her grandmother Dolly and her mother, Selma.

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