Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli

Serena Singh Flips the Script

by Sonya Lalli

3 Stars 

Serena Singh seems to be perfectly happy in the life she has created for herself. Even if everyone around her thinks she should be living it differently. Her sister just got married, she has her own apartment and a new job, she even might have a new romantic fling she met at her sisters wedding. But one thing she wants more of is friends. She goes on a journey of self-discovery trying to meet new people while balancing a new relationship and a new friendship with someone at work.

This was a sweet story but not at all what I expected. But I wasn't dissapointed because the story was so sweet. There were a few things out of left field that came off as stuck in there, her fathers abuse of her mother for example but in the end it all came together nicely. The real thing this highlighted for me was the willingness to ignore red flags in people especially if their family. Everyone caters to Serena's younger sister when in the long run she is not a very nice person and is extremely self-centered. I would have liked a better resolution to that rather than "sometimes you give more than you get in a realtionship".

The timeline of the story also threw me off, you really didn't see the passage of time clearly and months were supposidly going by when it felt like days. It was also strange when a random chapter was from Serena's mother's perspective, I didn't feel like it really added to the story and I was hoping to flesh the mom as a character out more but it didn't really do that. Overall it was a good read that I would suggest to other looking for a simple chick lit story about self-discovery.