The Planner - Jen A. Durand

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Title: The Planner
Author: Jen A. Durand
Genre: Chick-lit, Christmas
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 125
Date read: December, 2019

"There is nothing wrong with having a plan. Just keep it simple."

There was nothing simple about the plan Cain had proposed to Lilia Carriere. With the Christmas holiday baring down on her. She has to produce a boyfriend or end up her Mother's pet project list for the year. Beverly Carriere had decided her daughter needed to start on the marriage path.

Doctor Cain Farrow just need a few days in Meadow Memorial’s research lab. Unfortunately the hospital toughest administrator's approval was needed. Hardass Carriere ran the hospital with her take charge attitude and willingness to stand up to any doctor. But Cain had something she needed. So he struck a deal.

"I pretend to be the perfect boyfriend for one dinner and you approve my extra lab time. That way we all win.”

Little did he know that the founding member of Blue Grove’s Virgins Club was the girl he never knew he wanted.


Rounded up to 4 on goodreads, because I really was quite charmed despite the occasional eye-roll ;-).

This was a short and sweet novella. Filled with cliches, but I've never minded a good cliche, as long as it's well executed. I wasn't sure about neither Lilia nor Cain at first, but they both grew on me and I adored Prissy for being so no-nonsense about everything - I love friends like that :-)

I wish the book had been just a tad longer though. I was really disappointed not to see how Cain's visit with Lilia's family turned out. The pacing until then had worked really well, so it was a bit jarring to have the end come so abruptly.

The ebook version I received had quite a number of small mistakes ('two' instead of 'too', 'here' instead of 'hear', a random 'and' in the middle of a sentence etc.). Nothing major, so I haven't rated the book lower because of it, but enough that it became a bit of a game to find them ;-)