How many men does is take to find true love? Or is it even possible to put a number on love? Those tricky questions are about to clear up, when the book's protagonist Delilah Darling decides to get rid of her single status. As I started reading this book it really engrossed me from the first page! The humourous description and dictions made me laugh and smirk in a crazy way so it's kind of risky to read it in a public place.
Anyway Delilah is a 29-year-old New Yorker, who works in a company called Elisabeth Sterling Desing, that designs and manufactures household products. However she's suddenly laid off from her prestigious job, partially because of her irritating boss and her focusing problem, which she herself calls a mild case of undiagnosed ADD. The thing is that she can, for example, simultaneously play the computer, read magazines, instant message multiple people, paint her nails, talk on the phone and work better than anyone else (or so she alleges). But the real issue is that Delilah finds it very hard to settle down with a guy. She has been in many different kinds of relationships during her life, including all those one-night stands and high school boyfriends, but none of the guys just has seemed to be the Mr.Right. One day she reads in a magazine that the average person has 10,5 sexual partners in their lifetime and almost has a heart attack. That's because her own number is 20! Oops...
Delilah has a youngest sister called Daisy, who is already getting married, so her mother is trying to put pressure on her and over-reacts to her oldest daughter's behaviour. The article on the magazine also said that women who are over 30 and have slept with over 10.5 partners usually do not get married. As a crazy neurotic blond, Delilah freaks out and decides that twenty would be her limit. No more men until she has found The One. No more, not ever! So the only thing she can do is make a list of the old boyfriends with whom she has slept and go on a loooong roadtrip back to the beginning and revisit all those past lovers in hope that some of them have changed. Could she really have missed the Love of Her Life without realizing it?
The plan is really challenging, but luckily she gets help from her cute Irish neighbour, Colin, who works as her private investigator. Delilah and Colin seem to have a lot in common but it really disturbs me that Delilah just ignores all the sweet little things Colin does. He is also described as very good-looking and muscular. So with Colin's help our heroine gets essential irformation about her ex-boyfriends, then she rents a car and travels cross-country to find each and every man she has slept with who was not married or dead. During her trip she also buys a lovely little dog that she carries around in a pink bag.
Delilah's adventure leads to many surprising places, such as the Substance Abuse Treatment Center (rehab) and from NYC all the way down to LA. Despite all the disappointments she goes through while travelling, Delilah finds the meaning of life again. If you don’t get married, it is not the end of the world, though she keeps reminding herself about her number and eventually reaches the goal she was aiming for. The book teaches every woman when it comes to matters of the heart, sometimes numbers tell only a fraction of the story.
I enjoyed reading this novel for I could identify myself with the main character and I think the length of the book was also eligible. What's Your Number was previously published as Twenty Times a Lady (2006) and there's also a movie based on the novel. The author Karyn Bosnak has published two books in all, including this one, and I think her way to write is suitable feral but still interesting. I have also seen the movie, but compared to the book it wasn't that good even though it had its hilarious moments too. This book is something that makes you laugh over and over again and the tiny details allure you to read it afresh. I recommend this book to everyone who likes comedy and adventures and doesn't take life too seriously!
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