MONKEY LOVE

Author: Brenda Scott Royce ISBN: 0451217543 2/2006 CONTEMPORARY Publisher: NAL Trade

Holly Heckerling has a great set of power tools, and she knows how to use them. It's a good thing, because her career as a stand-up comic isn't exactly paying the rent...yet. But nothing's going to stop Holly's rise to stardom. Not the pickpocketing monkey she's been persuaded to pet-sit, or the friends who constantly need her to come to the rescue. And definitely not her meddling aunt, who can't understand why Holly's never had a relationship more than three months long. Actually, Holly's starting to wonder the same thing.Maybe it's time to stop monkeying around and settle down with a fellow primate (preferably one without fur). Too bad that when it comes to dating, it's a jungle out there, and you never know which way fate's going to swing next. But if there's one thing that's really unpredictable, it's love.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

MONKEY LOVE is one of the best feel good novels that I have read all year. It is crazy fun, with some great friendships and a little romance thrown in that just warms the heart. I did not want Holly's story to end. It is so fun—so out there, yet so realistic, that it could be anyone involved in some of these hilarious scenarios!

Holly is just a take-life-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of girl, one who does odd jobs to make a living and is scared of nothing—well, except boa constrictors. She is willing to try anything and will help anybody that it is in her ability to help.

MONKEY LOVE is a great debut novel and certainly puts Ms. Royce up there in my list of must read authors.

Kristal Gorman