Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club
2022 • 337 pages
Ratings5
Average rating3.2
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Ratings5
Average rating3.2
A new heartfelt novel about the power of loneliness and the strength of love that overcomes it by critically acclaimed author Roselle Lim. Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is made quite difficult, however, when she is revealed as a fraud—she never actually graduated from matchmaking school. In a competitive market like Toronto, no one wants to take a chance on an inexperienced and unaccredited matchmaker, and soon Sophie becomes an outcast. In dire search of clients, Sophie stumbles upon a secret club within her condo complex: the Old Ducks, seven septuagenarian Chinese bachelors who never found love. Somehow, she convinces them to hire her, but her matchmaking skills are put to the test as she learns the depths of loneliness, heartbreak, and love by attempting to make the hardest matches of her life.
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Sophie found her love, her found family and her magical matchmaking abilities. Thankfully in this case she lost her nasty family. I'd like see a book with Yanmei and her clients. This was listed a fantasy cozy, but it is probably closer to a romance, still it was a fun read.
DNF, more because this wasn't really what i was looking for, rather than a problem with the book. Personally, I would hesitate to call this fantasy, since the single fantastical element - the ability to see a red thread that reacts to relationships - has virtually zero impact on the story. This could be removed from the story entirely and have zero effect (other than removing some odd, and I presume unintentional, faintly phallic imagery when each person's thread reacts to those around them). This is more a light drama about relationships (with some heavier drama related to the protagonist's frankly horrific relationship with their mother). If that's what you're looking for, I think you'll have a better experience with this book than me.
