Product Description

Do you believe in a love at first site? Jess Monroe is 34 and perfectly happy being single. But her friends think otherwise and, as a birthday present, buy her an ad on an Internet dating site. Furious, she eventually agrees to try it out - and ventures into a world where the description on the tin rarely matches the contents. Once her reservations have faded, she embarks on several dates of varying success - until one day a catastrophic event brings her life sharply into focus and makes her re-evaluate everything she's ever known. Praise for "Dot.Homme": "Every bit as satisfying as a gloriously gossipy night out with the girls" - "Daily Mail". "Half the fun is that you'll spot yourself and your mates in Jess and her friends and what they get up to - a real tonic" - "Daily Mirror". "Top-notch - a pool-side must" - "Company". "Jane Moore returns with another fabulously funny read" - "Glamour".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42105 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

AMAZON.CO.UK
dot.homme is a very lively, incident-packed, 450-odd pages, and it’s a cogent demonstration that Jane Moore is a writer of imagination and skill – as her earlier Fourplay (pun intended) showed. The comparisons that have been drawn with Sex and the City’s Candace Busnell are right on the button: this is a funny, sympathetic picture of the choices (in both the sexual and romantic arena) facing a young woman today.

In her mid-thirties, Jess Monroe is at ease with her single status, and in no hurry to change. However, her friends have other ideas, and decide to do some adjusting on her behalf. As a quirky birthday present, they purchase her an advertisement on an internet dating site – with unexpected results. Jess is not best pleased, but is finally persuaded to give it a go. But we're in caveat emptor territory: however tempting the images of the men she is to meet on the website, the reality always seems to be a little different -- and (of course) far less appealing. Jane Moore is particularly good on these disastrous dates, and the humour is right on the nose – while Jess might object to some self-descriptions by her new dating partners, it’s put to her that she might occasionally have "sexed up" a description of herself – and she reluctantly has to admit she has.

dot.homme is great fun in these dating sections, and makes some good points about the joys (and idiocies) of the dating scene. But then something disastrous happens to Jess -- and how she has to come to terms with some very different life prospects makes for the perfect ending to a very diverting novel. --Barry Forshaw

Glamour
'Jane Moore returns with another fabulously funny read'

Company
'top-notch... a pool-side must'

Customer Reviews

Very funny
I read this book, having really enjoyed The Ex Files by the same author. I liked this one even better. This book should act as a serious warning for any girl trying to meet Mr Right on line. I'd also recommend The Mile High Guy (Marisa Mackle), Shopaholic and Sister (Sophie Kinsella) and The Other Side of the Story(Marian Keyes) for readers who like these type of books. In the meantime keep writing those hits please Jane. And I also love the title... very clever!

A modern tale for modern women
Having read and thoroughly enjoyed 'Foursome' and 'The Ex-Files', I rushed out to get Jane Moores latest and was not disappointed. It follows a year in the life of one Jess Monroe. It opens with it being her 34th birthday and a 'friend', Kara, has put an advert on an internet dating website on her behalf as a gift. In the end she decides to give it a go and you are left laughing at the results! It is also a touching and poignant book, as it also follows Jess through the trauma of her sister Livvy suffering from breast cancer. All in all, a witty and enchanting read which I'm sure many modern women will relate to in some way.

Horribly predicitable, leaving a very empty feeling
I wanted to give this book one star, but then I thought to myself that the fact that I continued to read it and get to the end even though I thought it was awful must mean it is okay.

But that is absolutely all it is. And it is only okay because is it very difficult for chick-lit to achieve a level lower than okay.

There are two main problems with this book that left me excruciatingly unengaged. One, it is undeniably predictable. It is no exaggeration to say that half way through the book I was certain who the heroine would end up with. I realise that there are conventions to be stuck to when writing this type of novel but the ending does not have to be so obvious that there truly is no point reading to the end. Then, just when I thought there may finally be a reward for sticking it out, at the end there is another terribly predictable 'twist'. By this point I really wished I’d had the will power to throw the book out of the window.

The second problem is that the main character, Jess, is completely unappealing. I really hoped that she didn't get the guy because she was undeserving of him. Her selfishness has reached such a degree that she needs some professional help. At one point she tells us that she is trying to make others feel good by lying to them about how their boyfriend feels about them, promptly to write abusive comments on this person’s place card at a dinner party.

So, if you have read every other romantic comedy book on the market then by all means read this, but otherwise try something which mixes the conventions of the genre with a good plot, for example, Penny Vincennzi.