The Goddess Rules

- Clare Naylor -

Heroine: Kate Disney, an animal portraitist living in the garden shed of her dad's best friend. Kate was ultimately the weak link of the story for me. She was irritatingly backbone free for most of the book, turning herself into a doormat repeatedly for a boyfriend who treated her like crap. Kate's lack of self esteem and self worth was just annoying to me - constantly putting herself down, and accepting crap treatment and treating others with disdain and like crap in the process

Hero: Louis, a conceptual artist who has been in love with Kate forever. We hardly got to know him at all, though he is clearly the smarter of the two as he cannot believe the crap Kate puts up with from Jake. He also never really asserts himself or really features in the story all that much, although the little bits we do see are very attractive as he demonstrates a quiet confidence that is pretty damn sexy.

Overall the supportive characters of Mimi, her long lost love Nick, and the gay friend Louis, are much more interesting. I will say Kate is at her best when she lets go of her snotty behaviours towards Mimi and acts as a real friend to her. Their relationship, thought the development of it is fairly superficial, is the most interesting one as Mimi forces Kate to see herself as worthy and Kate helps Mimi track down her true love.

A cute read, but totally frustrating and predictable too which ultimately killed it for me as the payoff is so perfunctory at the end.