Rating: 4/5
Review:
Enjoyable light comedy
This enjoyable book seemed rather like an episode of Hustle written by Richard Curtis - which is just fine by me. It is an amusing light comedy which I thoroughly enjoyed in a throwaway kind of way.
The central character is Della, who is single and attractive. She and her family are lifelong professional con-artists in Melbourne, Australia and she is engaged on a sting involving a single, attractive millionaire. It's not hard to guess what is going to happen between them, and I also found other parts of the plot rather transparent although I still enjoyed the twists of the who's-fooling-who convolutions. The writing is crisp, the dialogue is snappy and it rattles along very nicely so you can just relax and enjoy the ride. It does get a bit bogged down in moralizing and sentimentality in places but is engaging and pacy enough for this not to matter.
This isn't profound literature nor keep-you-up-late suspense stuff - and nor does it pretend to be. It is very good at what it does, which makes it a very entertaining light read. Recommended.
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