Review 15 Minutes of Shame by Lisa Daily

Today I'm fulfilling a promise by reviewing this FAB rom-com just re-released by brilliant author and friend Lisa Daily that I showcased on the blog a few weeks ago.
Enjoy!

ISBN-13: 979-8985825503
Publisher: Siesta Key Publishing
Release Date: 2-22-2022
Length: 284 pp
Source: Author for review
Buy It: Amazon

ADD TO: GOODREADS

Overview:

"Fall-out-of-your-chair hilarious! One of the funniest romantic comedy books you'll read all year! —Miss Lit Blog

Why am I hiding behind a dumpster at the Gas-N-Go in my pajamas, spying on Will?

A month ago I was America’s favorite TV relationships expert...

Now? I’m the loser facing a major scandal, whose catastrophic love life is splashed across TMZ, social media, and every gossip show and supermarket tabloid — all because I got dumped by my husband on national TV. For a reality TV star. And that’s not even the worst part.

Now, I’m scrambling to un-shamble my life, make a comeback, and salvage what’s left of my heart and my career — which is constantly complicated by the fact that I keep publicly screwing up (on camera, no less), my publicist is advising me to do some (let’s say questionable) stuff to get my career back on track, and most of all, because I can’t tell if my insanely sexy divorce attorney Holt is flirting with me, or just giving me legal advice. It definitely feels like flirting.

Like, the best flirting of my entire life — the kind that makes all your parts tingle, not just your toes...

Is that a bad thing? Yeah, it is — because if I fall for him, we’ll both be torpedoing our careers, not to mention everything else that really matters to me.

It’s just so hard to stop…

My Review:

15 Minutes of Shame
Lisa Daily

 

15 Minutes of Shame, Lisa Daily’s debut, has just been re-released, it’s an at times touching, at times laugh out loud rom-com that’s just as fresh today as when it was first released in 2008 and shows off Lisa’s fabulous talent as a novelist. Her characters may be over-the-top but Lisa composes them to be both likeable (or hate-able) and relatable. And it’s definitely Darby who steals the show with her compassion, humility and her unsinkable attitude about life and love. The narrative is easy to read and the story line is heartening and entertaining. Fans of Sophie Kinsella and Jennifer Cruise will love this uplifting story.

Darby Vaughn was living the good life, a successful relationship/dating expert, bestselling author, happily married to her PR husband Will and helping to raise his two adorable young children who she loves like her own. But on national TV, of all places, the Today Show her world comes crashing down when her husband announces he's gone back to his movie-star ex-wife and is taking the children with him. Ruining her life and her career plus breaking her heart in one fell swoop. But help is on the way as Darby’s BFFs aka The Dreamgirls circle the wagons for support and to help lick her wounds and she’s hired a hot divorce attorney (not that she’s interested) who reluctantly also agrees to help her gain custody of the kids. After suffering the worse she could imagine Darby is just hoping for some light at the end of this black hole of a tunnel her life has become.

 

About the Author:
Lisa Daily writes beach read romantic comedies (Single-Minded, Fifteen Minutes of Shame) and dating advice books (Stop Getting Dumped!). So basically, if she can't help you meet your dream guy, she can create one for you from scratch.
She's the love and relationships expert on DAYTIME, a nationally-syndicated morning TV show, and a popular media guest who has appeared everywhere from MTV Live to Entertainment Tonight, and been quoted everywhere from the New York Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune to Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Men's Health, Christian Science Monitor and US Weekly Magazine. She's is the bestselling, award-winning author of 9 books, including SINGLE-MINDED (A romantic comedy), STOP GETTING DUMPED!, FIFTEEN MINUTES OF SHAME (a romantic comedy), HOW TO DATE LIKE A GROWN-UP, SOUTHERN FRIED FARCE, BEAUTY, IS HE CHEATING, IS SHE CHEATING?, and POP MUSIC. Hang out with Lisa at LisaDailyBooks.com