How to Suck at Dating Without Even Trying — Anna York

Strong-willed Elena Ashton has had consistently bad dating luck since her Big Split and is beginning to believe someone has cursed her as she encounters bad date after bad date and experiences a few bad boyfriends. Life rolls on as she copes with bad dates, worse boyfriends, life changes, and seeing The Ex again. Thinking it cannot get much worse, she decides to give online dating a try because she figures it can't be worse than other ways of meeting people and see what happens. Jaw-dropping emails, ridiculous ultimatums, and a first date that is worthy of the Worst Date EVER pepper this tale of a single woman reaffirming why she is single to begin with. This book is ideal for people who are tired of the standard, "Someday my prince will come" genre of chick lit, "How to Suck at Dating" offers an entertaining tale that is satisfyingly different in outlook, outcome, and tone. Anna York reinvents the genre, or at least creates a subgenre that offers more of a feminist perspective on dating with a solid mix of optimism, cynicism, slightly bawdy humor, and vicious sarcasm with a unique bite. York's voice is one that needs to be heard above the din of those who (wrongly) believe that a woman MUST need to be involved in a romantic relationship to be happy. "How to Suck At Dating..." espouses the philosophy that sometimes it's better to be alone than to settle.