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Izzy is bipolar and has had a really bad time after a break up years, before she decides the single life is for her. (Being as she’s totally clueless when women are flirting or interested in her, it’s just as well.) However, she always seems to have the right relationship advice at the right time. Her best friend encourages her to write a book on affairs of the heart and she agrees. Then she meets Jane at work and her world changes. She’s smitten but Jane makes it clear she doesn’t date coworkers… until she does. This is a fun, interesting and engaging book. I really liked how there were pages at the end of each chapter detailing what Izzy has learned in her relationships and puts into the book. There was a lot of really sound advice, good reminders for those of us in relationships or those looking for one. I enjoyed the story and liked watching the women fall in love and find their way. I loved the secondary characters and Izzy’s best friend was so

In spite of how much I liked the story I did have some pretty big problems with it. Izzy is afraid to tell Jane about her bipolar. She has no problem admitting to having depression that she will have to take meds for, (and Jane makes it VERY clear that is NOT a problem at all!!) for the remainder of her life but for some reason, she is convinced Jane will leave if she knows it all. Eventually Jane does leave but not because of the disease. It was VERY obvious that Izzy suffers from severe anxiety but her bipolar isn’t as obvious and it doesn’t seem to really be a factor in her life, maybe because it’s really well controlled and she is managing it. The anxiety is more of an issue and it is only addressed as Izzy taking a Xanax once. Jane too has some problems that she should have shared along the way as well. She was physically abused as a child, (and some of the injuries and a bit of what happened are discussed in case that’s a trigger) and has some insecurity issues. I was really surprised that Jane would go visit her parents as often as she did given the amount of physical and emotional abuse her father dished out…. She even picked her parents up at the hospital after her father hurt her mom so badly she needed an ambulance…. As hard as I tried to be a true believer and just go with it, it just doesn’t work for me.

First of all, I want to say the synopsis is not quite accurate. I normally don't read synopsis in advance nor read reviews of books newly pubicated but after reading them almost always go for the explanation that the publisher has chosen for sell us the book. And in this case is not even close to the real thing.And in this case is not even close to the real thing. I was wondering how I could review this book without disclosing much of the important matters and to my surprise the fact that Izzy has a bipolar disorder is front showed as a major issue. And sure it''s a big thing but Jane also has of their own and perhaps more factoring in the story itself.

Without knowing anything about Izzy condition, the book starts and follows a path pretty joyful about how Izzy's friends dare her to writte a book about how to find true love, because she is the to-go girl for counseling about relationship issues, even though she has never had fruitful relationships.
And with the pretext of writing the guide, at the end of each chapter, there is a kind of explanation that merges general concepts of the different phases of building a relationship with Lizzy's own experiences, which she has in need of the research for the book. Some of these final summaries have been of little interest for me, when Lizzy and Jane story goes growing I wanted to know the real thing, not the theory of things.

And of course, Lizzy’s bipolar disorder influences the story but as I have already said is not the center or bigger part of the ending result. And said condition plus several other things makes the book not joyful anymore.

But overall, I think it has a lot of interesting things so those who like good romantic stories will enjoy it a lot as I’ve done.