Published: Oct. 08, 2011
Words: 89,702 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780987774606

Short description

Kali Esposito and best friends Syd and Zahra revive Love Inc. to help the lovelorn break-up, make-up or take-up with someone new. Die-hard romantic Kali can turn a socially-challenged client into a confident charmer, but when a competitor corrupts her "Kali Method" to turn regular guys into players, Kali must reclaim Love Inc.'s trade secrets before every girl in Austin gets her heart broken.

Extended description

Kali Esposito, matchmaker extraordinaire, couldn’t be happier that Love, Inc., the relationship management service she created with best friends, Syd and Zahra, is back in business. After a brief setback, the girls are once again using their skills to help the lovelorn break-up, make-up or take-up with someone new.

Fun, flirtatious Kali is a little gun shy about commitment—no big surprise when your mom’s racked up four divorces and your dad’s permanently awol—but she’s a diehard romantic when it comes to bringing others together, and her end-to-end makeovers can transform the most socially-challenged client into a confident charmer. The “Kali Method” she develops is helping Love, Inc. grow by leaps and bounds.

But when a competitor steals the Kali Method and corrupts it to turn regular guys into wicked players, Kali is forced to rethink her views on love, and come up with a plan to reclaim Love, Inc.’s trade secrets before every girl in Austin gets her heart .. (Read more) Kali Esposito, matchmaker extraordinaire, couldn’t be happier that Love, Inc., the relationship management service she created with best friends, Syd and Zahra, is back in business. After a brief setback, the girls are once again using their skills to help the lovelorn break-up, make-up or take-up with someone new.

Fun, flirtatious Kali is a little gun shy about commitment—no big surprise when your mom’s racked up four divorces and your dad’s permanently awol—but she’s a diehard romantic when it comes to bringing others together, and her end-to-end makeovers can transform the most socially-challenged client into a confident charmer. The “Kali Method” she develops is helping Love, Inc. grow by leaps and bounds.

But when a competitor steals the Kali Method and corrupts it to turn regular guys into wicked players, Kali is forced to rethink her views on love, and come up with a plan to reclaim Love, Inc.’s trade secrets before every girl in Austin gets her heart broken.

If you enjoy books by Meg Cabot, Ally Carter and Maureen Johnson, you’ll love Trade Secrets (80,000 words/300 pages) by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout. The Toronto-based coauthors have written eight contemporary romantic comedies, including Love, Inc., Girl V. Boy, and The Black Sheep. Visit them online at loveincbook.com or @Collins_Rideout
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Tags

romance, love, chick lit, teen, teen dating, teen chick lit, meg cabot, romance series, teen comedy, romancecontemporary, teen book, romance chick lit, teen jobs, adult and young adult, romance book new romance books, yvonne collins, sandy rideout, love inc, girl v boy, the black sheep

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Review by: Alexi Raymond on Dec. 18, 2011 :
"I like people, especially male people."

I can completely identify with this sentence. Kali, Syd and Zahra had formed Love, Inc. with four goals: matchmaking, revenge taking and mentoring those in need...oh and making some cash flow as well. While their business was put on hold and (to their parents) thought to be dead for good, the girls can't seem to stay away.

While each of the girls is singularly important, the main focus is really on Kali; who as the matchmaker, can't seem to keep a relationship. Caleb is great and she's been going out with him longer than she has with anyone else but it's those little things that keep adding up and sooner or later there's going to be one last straw that breaks the camels back. How far is she willing to go to keep her relationship for the sake of her Love, Inc. front?

Kali is also a singer/songwriter! How cool is that?! And she's ambitious as all get out even though everyone around her (minus the besties of course) have nothing but doubts; sound familiar to anyone's real life?

Love, Inc. is losing clients quickly and the one they had picked up is the snob to end all snobs, constantly harassing and causing headaches for the girls. Even though Kali is only friends with Luke she can't stand to see him hooked up with Hollis. He's so much better than her, but if he wants to oogle her and spend time with her - so be it. While the hook up seems to be making all parties happy, Hollis is only better to Kali and the crew to their faces. Behind everyone elses backs she's an evil evil girl. Hollis takes every chance to rub any and every failure Kali can suffer into her face - to the point of getting in her head before her first performance at open mic night.

When Kali gets played by a jerk who uses her own flirting and pick up methods without any intention of a long term relationship, the girls look deeper into the situation. Someone has set up "Catch of The Day" a rip off of Love, Inc. At least now they know where all of their clients are going.

The hard part? Shutting them down is going to risk everything all three of the girls have, including their hearts.

When I reviewed Girl vs Boy it was because it sounded cute and Ashley from Books from Bleh to Basically Amazing said to read it...this is a serious recommendation to me! When I received a notification that I would be able to review Trade Secrets it looked right up my alley! It SO is!

Trade Secrets is a fun and inspiring story that makes you want to grab your girl friends and go out for a night of fun and flirting. It's a quick read and honestly, there are so many cute boys that you won't want to stop turning pages because you'll want to know more about them and more importantly, to see if they end up where you want them! Let's discuss a couple of the boys briefly. Jesse is HOT and he knows it but he's not all arrogant, he's just flirty and brings it on strong. Luke is a sweetheart, caring and understanding but has some serious judgment lapses from time to time. Brody doesn't really do it for me but I think that's because I identify with Kali really strongly and since Brody is her brother....yeah, I can't do it! lol!

I've heard a lot of people complain about jumping into series because they feel overwhelmed if they missed the first book, be honest - how many shelves do you save for TBR's? While Trade Secrets is indeed a sequel to Love, Inc. believe me when I say that you will want to read Love, Inc. but it isn't necessary. Trade Secrets is a fantastic book, written well with characters that come alive. I for one, will be buying Love, Inc. and reading it even though I'm a little out of order!

Speaking of the writing, I opened with a sentence from Trade Secrets and I want to share this one with you too, after reading it tell me you don't want to know more who this is about?!

"No matter what words he actually uses, it sounds like he's asking you to take off your clothes. And somehow, that doesn't seem unreasonable, even here in the kitchen of the Maternity Ward."

The girls are a blast and if Covergirl was smart they'd tap into this series and push it hard with it's own brand of lip glosses for fans of the books, I know I've already bought a new shade because well...if it works for Kali, I'm willing to give it a shot, too!
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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