The Cupid Effect - Dorothy Koomson

Dorothy Koomson's book The Cupid Effect is another very good read, however unlike the others it took me a bit longer to actually get into it. It is her first book though and I read it after I had read a few others of her books, which are all really brilliant and a must read!, but her first book is still worth a read with a great storyline. The book is about a woman called Ceri D'Altroy who packs up all her stuff and rents her flat out, after she watches a chat show, and moves from London to Leeds to go back to uni. She made this move in order to become a psychology lecturer and moves into a student house where she lives with two male students. Mel only knows one other ...  Read the complete review

I think I might have been spoilt by reading Dorothy Koomson's later books which to my mind have all been really exceptional thought provoking reads. I had not read her first novel The Cupid Effect though so when I saw it in a book swapping site it was an obvious read. However, although it is an entertaining read, like many first novels, it lacks the depth and richness of her later books. The Cupid Efect tells the story of Ceri D'Altroy, a single thirty something woman who has given up her job and home in London to follow her dream as a psychology lecturer in Leeds. As she is starting anew she resolves not to allow herself to fall into the trap of 'agony aunt' ...  Read the complete review

The Cupid Effect - Dorothy Koomson "Dare you follow your heart?" Ceri D'altroy leaves London and her job to move back to Leeds to become a psychology lecturer. Where ever she goes she seems to attract people who think she is a good listener, when they find out she has a psychology degree she finds them unburdening their soul on her. She also ends up playing cupid and matchmaking people together. This doesn't end when she moves into a house with two lads in Leeds, telling one of them to tell the girl of his dreams that he likes her, and telling the other to tell the boy he keeps going back to, how he feels about him. She finds ...  Read the complete review