Just Got Real: The hilarious and addictive bestselling revenge comedy

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The plot started to get juicier and my interests piqued a bit more, but still not as much as it normally would when reading a book by Jane Fallon. Als ze contact legt met de andere vrouwen met wie hij afspreekt, Saff en Mary, besluiten de drie het er niet bij te laten zitten en beramen een plan. She then concocts a plan, to accidentally meet Ant in real life without revealing who she really is. The protagonist in this book is Joni, a mature woman that has been divorced and is very comfortable financially. She's planning to confess all to Ant, the man she's been happily dating for a few months, but then she finds out that he's in the midst of a much bigger indiscretion when she discovers messages from other women, ones he's communicating with at the same time as seeing her.

Three middle-aged women try online dating and are conned by a guy who is dating all of them at the same time. Saffy’s first instinct is to have a drink and talk through it all and suggest getting even with him, but Mary’s first contact with Joni has her hanging up on her chalking it up to a mis-identity. I loved the way the friendship blossomed between him and Joni but I understood the focus was on the friendship between the three wronged women. Yet unable to stop thinking about what might have been, she hatches a plan to 'meet' Ant in real life without revealing who she really is. I appreciate that the plot is very current off the back of shows like Catfish and The Tinder Swindler, but it just didn’t capture my interest like I thought it would.Full of charm, excitement and the humour splashed throughout adds this certain charisma that makes it so relatable.

Such a beautiful tale of friendship and dating from an older angle rather than our contemporary focus on gen z.Joni is the real central character, and very easy to warm to (and relate to in many ways, apart from the gym 🤣), but I also fell for sweet widow Mary, and gobby Saffy with a heart of gold. I really liked the ending of this book, it left me very satisfied with the outcome and it was well deserved. It’s perfect, it works, and she’s happy – until a few months in, Joni discovers she wasn’t the only one being deceitful: on Ant’s phone are intimate messages between him and two other women. They have no proper lives but they have lots of money and this book shows us how, through the power of (first) marrying up and (then) friendship, you can actually have it all.

Ze krijgen een relatie en het leven lijkt haar toe te lachten – tot ze via haar account ontdekt dat Ant nog steeds heel actief is op de app. I was really absorbed by this story, the author delivered this book so well, that I always wanted to know more.And mind the pricks was certainly right when it came to Ant - what a great villain character he is, and I loved his slow unravelling as the women uncovered the truth about him. If you love a feel-good story with female friendship at the heart, with a hint of revenge and a plot that gets you completely invested; Just Got Real is definitely one for you. Joni contacts the other women after going through Ant’s phone while he’s asleep and from there on in it gets even more hilarious to read. Whilst the dating story is the primary storyline, it's very much Joni who is the main focus of the story, as she moves on with her life after a divorce, the loss of a friend and her daughter leaving home.

Whilst you might guess some of it, it’s still just such a fun, whipsmart read and I really didn’t want to put it down for a minute! Firstly because of the need to catfish, and then when the catfish becomes the conned, the need to keep sleeping with him to mine for more information.She wants to get back out there on the dating scene and is really hitting it off with Ant, but Ant is also hitting it off with other women while seeing Joni (who he knows as Lucy). De schrijfstijl blijft wel echt fantastisch, dus als Jane weer een nieuw boek uitbrengt, ga ik die gewoon weer enthousiast lezen! Just Got Real is a book I didn't want to end but it had to, and like another book I've read recently, although there is romance in there, it's very much about female empowerment, with or without a partner in tow. Uiteindelijk leert ze hem kort daarna 'spontaan' in het echt kennen, zonder dat hij weet dat ze al eerder met elkaar op de datingapp hebben gesproken.