Usually I'm not into love stories about desperate forty-something-year-old women seeking new husbands. It seems kind of trifling. However, I made an exception with How to Find a Husband in Your Basement. I found it while surfing one day and asked the author if she would mind me reviewing the e-book. I have to admit all my assumptions about how this book would read were wrong. How to Find a Husband in Your Basement was well written, realistic, cute and extremely funny.

     Shelley is a recent divorcee, whose husband left her to go and work with performing Chihuahuas in the circus. Shelley is survived by two sons, a very loose best friend, and a mother whom Shelley likes to call the German Lolita.

     The story opens with Shelley's very loose friend Caryn and equally loose mother attempting to get her out to meet a man. Shelley, of course, is going through every emotion adolescents experience when venturing out into the world of dating. Basically, revealing that no matter how old we get, we are still the same kids we were at fourteen. From bars to churches, personals to blind dates, Shelley is forced to lie and sneak around like a teen-ager in order to find herself and attempt to seek out an relationship.

     Through the help of one of her sons, Shelley gets into the chat room scene on the net, and meets an interesting array of men, including an Indian Shaman. Of course there is one man in particular whom she has a good relationship with, but has never had the chance to meet, due to his top secret government job.

     In the mix of all this Shelley finds out something terrible has happened to her ex-husband, and finds herself being questioned by the police. In particular a handsome police officer whom while seemingly interested, keeps his distance due to the investigation.

     This was really a sweet story. My only problem with it is that the end of the story was too rushed. Everything else was fleshed out very well, but the end went way too fast. It was bing, bang, boom, The End and that annoyed me, because it really cheapened this well written story, making it seem almost unprofessional. But for the price, one can't go wrong. This e-book is available on CD-ROM and can purchased directly from the publisher, BooksOnScreen.com, for $8.99. Overall Blagg is a great writer, and has a real knack for comedy. If you have never read an e-book, this story will sell you on becoming one of the millions of fans of electronic books.

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