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You're (Not) the One

Plume: Penguin Group (USA). Nov. 2011. c.384p. ISBN 9780452296909. pap. $15. F
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Lucy is loving her new job at a New York art gallery. When Adam, on the lookout for free champagne, crashes her gallery's opening one night, they connect like old friends. Adam and Lucy begin a fledgling romance, but it's killed when Lucy's ex-boyfriend Nate continually resurfaces. At age 19, Lucy and Nate sealed their fate with a kiss under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy, ensuring that—as the legend says—they would spend the rest of their lives together. Now, ten years later, that's their problem. After a brief fling, Lucy and Nate can't get rid of each other—and they can't stand each other. And Nate and Lucy's fate is sabotaging their chances of true happiness with others they actually love. The only way to rid herself of Nate and the spell of the Bridge of Sighs—and her only chance of making it work with Adam—is to return to Venice. Potter (The Two Lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather) has taken romance and turned it into a curse in this funny and lighthearted read.
VERDICT Potter has found her stride with this third novel, and anyone whose dream of "the one" has turned into a nightmare will enjoy the quirky premise of this fun book.
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