Ex-Girlfriends United by Matt Dunn

This is Book 29 started, book 25 finished

Ex-Girlfriends United by Matt Dunn
Published by Sourcebooks Landmark, 2011

This is the third book I’ve read about Ed and Dan and the second in their trilogy.  I probably shouldn’t have read them out of order as I much preferred the first and third book over this one and quite possibly in part because I knew the next chapter in their story.

Overall, this is a great Lad Lit series.  It’s funny in a typically British way.  Ed and Dan are mates.  Ed is happily monogamous and Dan is the handsome playboy love-em-and-leave-em type.  The first book opens with Ed being dumped by his girlfriend of 10 years, Jane, for letting himself go and for becoming boring.  That first book is about him getting back in shape and learning to be interesting again to win her back.

In this book, Ed is with Sam (that’s Samantha), his ex-personal trainer after asking her out in the last book when he realized that Jane was something of a shallow woman that he really doesn’t like any longer.  Dan can’t seem to get any dates at all as every woman seems to know everything about him already.   The book centers around Ed working up to asking Sam to move in with him and trying to help Dan first clean up his image after they find a website devoted to outing crap boyfriends.

The book is funny and Dunn is a very entertaining author.  This one just isn’t his best work.   It’s just not as f as the others I’ve read.    I suggest reading Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook, the first book in the series.  Love it, enjoy it, then read this one.

3 Stars