Sundays at Tiffany’s By James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet

So I just finished Sundays at Tiffany’s and I really liked it. I have read a number of James Patterson books (the Max Ride series, the Alex Cross series), so I figured why not give this one a chance. I was definitely not expecting what I read, because it was by James Patterson, but it was different.

So the story is about this woman Jane and her life and love. It starts off with little Jane, sitting eating a Sunday with her imaginary friend Michael. Michael is Jane’s best friend; he is smart, fun and handsome. They would play the “Michael and Jane game” every Sunday while her mother sat in a table away from Jane and talked to her friends (just picture a little girl sitting at a table, by herself while her mother sits across the restaurant at another table). Her mother, Vivian, is this aloof woman who is very distant. Vivian is a big time Broadway producer and head of a huge company so she has very little time for Jane. On Jane’s 8th birthday, Michael tells Jane that he has to leave, but it will be ok, because once he is gone, she will not even remember him. Well boy is he wrong.

About 20+ years later Jane is alone, unhappy, and still very much so remembers Michael. She is dating this loser actor who is using her and thinks he is better, more attractive and just…well yah better than her. And of course her aloof mother is still trying to control her. Jane has produced a play that is being turned into a movie, about a little girl and her imaginary friend Michael.

Well one day she runs into Michael again, yes her Imaginary friend Michael, but he is not longer imaginary. He is on a vacation between “assignments” and he is back in NYC. At first she thinks she is either going crazy or something, but wouldn’t you think the same thing if you suddenly see your imaginary friend from when you were a child sitting across a restaurant from you. But she realizes that it is the same sweet, loving Michael from her childhood and they have been re-united.

During this book, I laughed out loud a few times. Jane is just a character. She is very easy to relate to because many women have to deal with a number of the issues that she has to, she has to deal with being raised by a single parent, and not just that, but a single parent that seems to put her at the end of things. She has to deal with relationships, and ignorant men, she deals with weigh issues and of course a being a woman in a working world. All women have had that crap relationship and gone through the motions. Every woman has looked into the mirror and felt insecure. Ever woman wishes for that perfect man that will listen to them, understand them and truly love them. And Michael is that man! There are a number of twists and turns in this book that keep you guessing until the end, what the ending will actually be.
I think one of my favorite parts of the book was when Jane talked about a ring for the right hand instead of the left, and she goes out and buys herself something like a 62k dollar diamond ring. Yah, the right hand for women’s power, the right shows you are strong and blah blah blah type things. But it was a moving part, before and after, and I definitely laughed!

It is a short good book and worth reading if you have the time, and like girly books with happy endings.