When Polly Met Olly by Zoe May
Polly and Olly were never supposed to meet… Polly might spend her days searching for eligible matches for her elite list of clients at her New York dating agency, but her own love life is starting to go up in smoke. Even worse, she can’t stop thinking about the very person she’s meant to be setting her latest client up with… surely it can’t get any worse! But then Polly bumps into oh-so-handsome Olly, who heads up a rival agency, and realizes that perhaps all really is fair in love and dating war…
A girl with british-isms and job insecurities tries to find her footing in New York.
The main character in this book was British and living in America. There were so many words throughout the book that I didn't understand. Or if I did understand them, didn't flow with my American thought process when reading. Managing to stay "schtum" is a great example. Don't know what that means? I didn't either.I missed out on dialogue. I know the whole book can't be dialogue, but I wanted more in each chapter. There was a lot of Polly's thought process or different back stories. There's a character named Brandon and he is described 7000 times in detail. Okay I'm exaggerating, but Polly's sense of drama has rubbed off on me.I didn't mesh well with our main character, Polly. She was very timid. Very dramatic and just wasn't very likable for me. She didn't have huge character flaws that made her unlikable - if that makes any sense- but she wasn't a character that I would be friends with.The title is a bit misleading- it's about Polly and Olly. But in execution- the book didn't feature a lot of their interactions. 50% of the way through the book, they had interacted 3 times - none of which were extremely notable scenes, and the duration of which were all quite short. (Look, I just used quite in a sentence. The british lingo in the book is rubbing off on me!)I requested the book for the cover, and the concept - it just sounded good! In the end, it didn't deliver what I was expecting.
I mentioned that I submitted a request to read this book. I that because (other than having a super cute cover) it had a cute premise. I loved the idea of the plot!The good part about this book is that it is a light and easy read, no trigger warnings and no commitments!There was some funny dialogue in this book! Polly's roommate was particularly funny and I really enjoyed some of his lines! Here's a great example:"You're so horny you probably go to Starbucks just hear someone cry out your name."Funny right?! It was lines like these that kept me reading the book even if I didn't understand most of the british-isms throughout it.