Blog Tour, Review & Giveaway: The Idea of Him by Holly Peterson (CLOSED)

Title: The Idea of Him   

Author: Holly Peterson     

Published: April 2014, William Morrow & Company  

Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages   

Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours  

A fabulous and compelling story from Holly Peterson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Manny

Mary
Crawford is a once aspiring screenwriter turned successful public
relations executive, mother of two young children, and wife of a hotshot
magazine editor whose power base spans the worlds of finance, fashion,
culture, entertainment, and society. At 34, she finds herself at a
crossroads: between the office and her home, her life has become an
endless rotation of people pleasing-whether pulling rabbits out of hats
for her mogul boss, entertaining advertisers and phony A-listers for her
husband’s magazine, or making elaborate costumes for children’s school
plays. At least, that is, until she meets a head turning, traffic
stopping beauty at the bar of the famed Four Seasons Grill Room-where
many of the novel’s players regularly convene-and shortly thereafter
finds the same woman and her husband in an apparently compromising
position in her own apartment.

And so begins the story of two
very different women bound by similar missions-to uncover the crimes and
betrayals of various men in their lives and finally put their own
interests front and center. For Mary this ultimately means leaving a
husband who is ideal in theory but not in practice, and deciding to risk
security for self-fulfillment and a new life on her own. Like so many
women, Mary fell for the man she married when she was in her twenties
only to realize years later that it wasn’t him she fell for as much as
it was the idea of him-the idea of a savior who would protect and
provide and ferry her from her past into the future. But the guy who
seemed so right at the time turned out to be nothing more than a
fantasy.

My thoughts: This is the first book I’ve read by Holly Peterson and I enjoyed the writing. I liked that this was a quick, fun read, with a bit of a mystery and some suspense thrown in. 

What I loved most about this book were the characters. Holly creates some really intriguing characters, some that you love and some that are quite despicable. Right from the start, I found myself liking Allie – she is the woman who seems to have it all on the surface, but when you start to dig a little deeper, you realize that all is not what it seems. Allie has some ghosts from her past that she can’t quite let go, and after an incident at a party in her house, realizes her perfect life isn’t quite as perfect. 

I also loved the character of Jackie. At first, I had a hard time deciding whether she was inherently a good character or a bad character – I was very weary of her motivations in all she did. I love characters like that – ones that make you constantly question whether they are true or up to no good!

I admit I’m not up on all the financial crises of the world, so some of the financial wheeling and dealings were like reading Greek to me, but it did add to the overall tension of the book and I still got the general gist of what was going on. Between all that and the secrets that were being kept, I had to know how things would end up.

About the author: Holly Peterson is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Manny. She was a contributing editor for Newsweek and editor-at-large for Talk magazine. She was also an Emmy Award-winning producer for ABC News for more than a decade, where she covered global politics. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, Talk, the Daily Beast, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and other publications.

Authors Links: 

Website   |   Twitter   |   Facebook 

To see who else is participating in Holly Peterson’s The Idea of Him tour, click here.

GIVEAWAY DETAILS – CLOSED (US only) 

Thanks to Trish at TLC Book Tours, I have one copy of The Idea of Him plus an Andrea Schroder candle to give away to my readers.

 

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• I will contact winner at the conclusion of the giveaway & they will have 2 days to respond or I will pick a new winner.

This giveaway is open to US residents only and ends April 17th. 

Good luck!