To borrow a phrase from Nancy, you will be absolutely thrillified with Grace Coopersmith’s new novel! I was. It was the perfect flirty, happy, sweet, and thoroughly enjoyable read.
Grace Coopersmith is a pen name for Marta Acosta and Nancy’s Theory of Style is a spinoff of the Casa Dracula novels. I probably wouldn’t have noticed that if I hadn’t been in contact with Marta and read the connection from another review. That just shows how seamless the storytelling is on the author’s part. I didn’t feel like I was missing anything.
Nancy Carrington-Chambers’ perfect life with her perfect husband, perfect house, perfect job, and perfect friends is really not as perfect as it seems. Three years after her wedding, the house, her husband, and all the rest of the trappings in her life are driving Nancy’s insane—she has to take a break and get out. She moves back into her classy San Francisco apartment with plans to refocus on her business, Froth, an event planning company, and reconnect with friends.
The first is easy to do as soon as Derek Cathcart comes on the scene. He is Nancy’s new British and very gay assistant. He’s well dressed, well mannered, and slightly sarcastic, with beautiful features and smirking eyes. Everything her husband is not. In fact, you could say he’s perfect. If only he wasn’t gay!
Reconnecting with old friends is harder, nobody returns her calls and they all give her the brush off. What’s going on? With old friends swiftly disappearing – Bailey, her husband’s friend, makes a flattering overture.
Then Birdie, her cousin, foists her young daughter, Eugenia on Nancy without so much as a by your leave. The girl is a mess and not at all fashion forward. What’s Nancy supposed to do with a kid? Especially with the Barbary Coast Historical Museum fundraiser right around the corner!
I was sucked into the delightmare that was Nancy’s life. I finished it in record time and loved it. I can’t wait to dive into the Casa Dracula novels.
Rating: 4.5 Stars
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Anyone who uses the word thrillified is a winner as far as I’m concerned!
Yes and delightmare and a few other gems!