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\"Cover<\/a>Bad Heir Day: A Comedy of High Class and Dire Straits by Wendy Holden. Sourcebooks Landmark; Reprint edition (September 1, 2010); ISBN: 978-1402240614; 352 Pages. Price: List $14.99 (Amazon: $10.79 \/ Kindle: $9.99).<\/p>\n

Anna Farrier\u2019s life is going nowhere when Bad Heir Day<\/strong> begins. She\u2019s living with Sebastian “Seb” Lavenham, an upper-class playboy with commitment problems. After attending a wedding of one of Seb\u2019s school friends at Dampie Castle on the Island of Skul, Anna begins to take a hard look at her current situation and reluctantly admits it\u2019s going beyond depressing. She hasn’t written anything in a long time and in reality she’s nothing but Seb\u2019s live-in maid with benefits. She’s ready for a change.<\/p>\n

Luckily, at the wedding, while Seb was making out with all his old girlfriends, she met Geri, a woman with a plan for her life, who was full of helpful hints on how to get Anna’s life on track, beginning with becoming an author’s assistant. Anna puts up an ad and gets a call from Cassandra Knight who just lost her au pair<\/em> \u2013 again \u2013 and needs a replacement but the service won’t send anyone else out to care for her hellion of a son, Zachary. Anna accepts the position thinking it’s to help with research and writing and ends up being an extremely low-paid babysitter and household help.<\/p>\n

It turns out the waiter she met at the wedding actually owns the castle and he\u2019s in desperate need of a wife. By the time he shows up in London, Anna\u2019s experience as Cassandra\u2019s pseudo-slave, Zach\u2019s victim, and Jett\u2019s (Cassandra\u2019s husband) potential conquest has not helped her self-esteem or her writing. She’s ready for a change.
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\nBad Heir Day<\/strong> is a lot of fun even while being totally predictable. However, I read this almost immediately after reading Farm Fatale<\/strong><\/a> and found the underlying structure to be quite similar. I think if I\u2019d had more time between the two books, the plot structure wouldn\u2019t have been as noticeable. Even so there were some great one liners and lots of eye-rolling moments as the story unfolded. The characters are more archetypes than fully developed but in the context of the odd-ball romantic comedy story, it really doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

Bad Heir Day<\/strong> is pure entertainment with a mild message of “don\u2019t ruin your life trying to be someone you’re not”. Just grab a cup or glass of your favorite beverage, put up your feet, and enjoy watching someone else\u2019s life going off the rails and somehow finding a perfect mate in spite of the chaos their life has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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