A review by introverted_dragon
Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella

4.0

Rating: 4.25

Plot:

Twenty five year old Emma Corrigan has everything, well almost everything, she could ever ask for: a loving, perfect boyfriend, wonderful friends and a job at the Panther Corporation’s UK branch. But thing is she wants to get promoted to marketing executive to prove to her parents that she can be successful. So her boss decides to give her chance and sends her off to Glasgow to seal the deal with another big corporation. But our dear Emma screws things up big time by drenching a businessman in Panther Cola.
Poor thing: she thought that things couldn’t get any worse but then again this is life and life decides to have a little fun with our heroine who happens to have a fear of flying. So when the planes ride becomes turbulent, Emma thinks that she’s gonna die and spills all of her most intimate secrets to the man sitting next to her. No big deal right? I mean she’s never gonna see him again right?
Wrong. Turns out the man she spills her guts to is actually Jack Harper: The man who started the Panther Corporation. And he’s in London. Emma is freaking out since this man, who’s her boss’s boss’s boss’s boss knows everything from what type of underwear she wears to the fact that she thinks her boyfriend looks like Ken from Barbie and Ken. And Jack is equally shocked to see her but he is quick to tease Emma and make her think that her life has gone hell and isn't coming back anytime soon. But somewhere in the chaos, Jack makes Emma see the truth behind her secrets and helps to see what she really wants. And Emma and Jack are both gripped by each other. A romance is in bloom, so read as Jack makes Emma’s wildest dreams come true.

Characters:

I really enjoyed the characters and I liked the way Emma matured throughout the book, how she overcame her boundaries and came out in the end as a new and improved version of herself. She was enjoyable to read about and I loved her sense of humor and her tendency to overreact to different situations. Overall good character development. \
Jack Harper…Where do I begin! He was dreamy, lovely, sweet kind, sexy, hot, amazing, wonderful, kind and so much more! I really loved Jack and during the big fight I was initially rooting for Emma but as the story progressed I started to sympathize with Jack more since he was trying so hard to win her over and honestly Emma was a bit immature about the matter but I understood where she was coming from but really by the end of it I was siding with Jack. Anyways, I’m rambling now. Bottom line Jack Harper is the man any woman desires I seriously wish he was real! GOD! WHY couldn’t he be real! WHY!

Thoughts:
I loved this! Amazing and so well written. I love Kinsella’s books, though they are cheesy and predictable and somewhat cliché, they are simply delicious and you can’t help but love them. But I'm starting to see a pattern in her writing: the heroines are always somewhat clueless and adorable bundles of joy who always have some growing to do. The heroes are mostly young, rich, handsome business men who help the heroine learn from her mistakes. There’s almost always a boyfriend or husband in the picture and the heroine always breaks up with them in order to be with her man and the guys always make you feel faint.
Despite all this I love her books: they're funny, sweet and oh so delicious that I could just melt! This was no exception and as always her stories have managed to lift my spirits and make me smile.

If you like funny and clumsy marketing assistants and hot, sweet millionaires who will make you laugh out loud, go read this.
Oh but one word of advice: Don’t read this in public. You'll be bursting into random bouts of laughter and getting weird stares from people all the time.