The Wing Girl

by Nic Tatano

`One of the top 20 books of 2013’ – I Heart… Chick Lit

`E-book novel of the year’ – Chick Lit Chloe

Wing Girl: [wing-gurl] noun
1. A young, single woman frequenting liquor-serving establishments who attracts then later repels eligible men that are eventually picked up by her friends.
2. The essential accessory for dating in Manhattan.

For years guys have cruised bars using the "wing man" as a divide and conquer weapon designed to liberate a gorgeous woman from her not-so-beautiful friend.

Meet Belinda Carson, Wing Girl.

She's a kick-ass, take-no-prisoners investigative reporter fighting for truth, justice and higher ratings. But while her fame draws in the hotties, it’s unfortunate that you can’t buy a new personality at Bloomingdales!

Because up close and personal these unsuspecting suitors get fried by a snarky attitude that's sharp enough to slice a stale bagel…
which leaves her grateful friends to swoop in for the delectable leftovers!

Only enough is enough – isn’t it time for Belinda to stop taking one for the team and land her own Mr Right?

• ISBN13: 9780007548583
• Publish Date: 29 August 2013
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Edition: Digital original
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 282
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk

Reviews

[Emma (SCR)]

This review was originally posted on Star Crossed Reviews This was a really great fun read. I loved it.

Belinda is a bit of a hard arse. She has this massive wall up and being a reporter is instantly accusatory when she meets someone. The thing is deep down she's a big softie and her friends know that. She just needs to let a guy in. Let him see the softer side of her not the snarky person she is for her job.

So the girls, Roxanne, Aerial and Serena, decide its time she had a makeover. It's bloody brilliant. The girls are so good to her not only do they make over her appearance they show her how to charm a guy so that the minute she opens her mouth they don't runaway.

Roxanne asks her cousin Vincent to be the first test subject for Belinda and boy do they get off on the wrong foot. He is such a lovely man and Belinda is pretty horrible to him.

There's this little pastry shop called Nick's and it sounds amazing. I really want one of those in my life.

I loved the twist in this book and I have to say I didn't see it coming.

I really enjoyed this book and I will absolutely be reading more of Nic's books.

[Leah]

If I have only one problem with my Kindle – my beautiful, wonderful, couldn’t-live-without-it Kindle, it would be that when it comes to choosing a book to read, it’s hard. Whereas with my physical books I can look at the cover and read the blurb, get a gander at the first page, it’s all a bit more difficult with a Kindle. It takes ages to load the first page, just for a tester, you can’t see the cover or synopsis so if you have loads to review (as I do), you basically have to try and remember what a book is about and how pretty the cover is. But as soon as I had downloaded Wing Girl to my Kindle, I knew I had to read it. First up, the absolutely awesome title – we hear so much about wing men that it’s refreshing to have a book about a wing girl. The cover is also stunning, so as soon as it landed and I finished up my most recent ebook, I knew this was my next read.

I’m really loving how publishers are pushing the boundaries with books, both Harlequin and Harper Collins have set up digital-only imprints that have so far brought me some brilliant reads. Wing Girl is one such read from the Harper Impulse imprint and it was an awesome read. Really, really good. It seems as if the Harper Impulse novels are the modern Little Black Dress books, and I am so excited to read more books from them. Wing Girl pretty much caught my attention from the first page, and what surprised me most of all about the novel is it’s written by a man, something I would never have guessed in a billion years. Although, thinking about it, women (with the exception of the wonderfully talented Gemma Burgess) just don’t write females that are kick-ass, or that shoot from the hip. Belinda Carson is a brutally-honest news reporter and I flipping loved her! Not only her, but her friends as well, particularly the feisty Roxanne!

I was so pleasantly surprised to find myself loving this book so much. I loved reading about Belinda’s job, how her feisty Brass Cupcake appearance scares men away, and how her make-over does the opposite job and brings them flocking to her, in the shape of Scott, a helper at the same animal shelter as Belinda, and Vincent, Roxanne’s tough-talking, honest cousin. It just goes to show that you CAN look good, and you can be a babe and still kick ass. You can still be a tough news reporter, and look pretty in the process. Belinda will easily go down as one of my favourite heroines of this year – she’s unfurgettahbul (New York, Roxanne-twang-implied). Her rapport with Vincent was amazing, I loved their love-hate (mostly hate) relationship and how he was always there just when she needed him, even if she didn’t want him to be there. It’s been a while since I’ve read a relationship like that, and they’re my favourite kind because the sparks, they do fly!

There is a more serious tone to the novel, on a story Belinda works on and I’ll be honest I guessed the culprit way before it was revealed, way before it was even mentioned as a story, but it didn’t bother me at all. It was ace to get a look at a story in action like that, to see how Belinda worked and unfolded news stories on a daily basis and it came to a very satisfying conclusion. I truly adored this novel, I think Nic Tatano has written such a fabulous rom-com, with some truly unforgettable characters, all who had fantastic relationships. I just wish I had friends like Belinda’s to give me a make-over to make me look as fabulous as her! You just have to read this novel, it’s amazing and it’s so well written. I look forward to reading many more novels by Nic Tatano because Wing Girl was amazing. One of my favourite books this year, for sure.