Ms.Taken Identity by Dan Begley is chick lit with a twist, the main character is a man and the book is written by a man.
Mitch Samuel is a young English college professor, working on his PhD and also on a deep, literary masterpiece that he cannot get published. As the book progresses, he slowly realizes how pretentious and uppity he is, as are all the girlfriends he selects. A sequence of hilarious man-tantrums leaves him face-to-face with a famous author of chick-lit. While formulating the perfect uppity put-down, he somehow ends up telling her about his cousin who is trying to write a book in the chick-lit genre and the author offers to help sell it. Mitch, thinking that trash/formula chick lit would be a slam-dunk project- tries to write one, and cannot. His research into the female mind leads him into a different world, new friends he would have passed by before, new love- and a web of lies he must untangle.
This was a very fun read, a lighthearted look at life through a guy's eyes. Mitch was very endearing, but also very dense at times. It was satisfying to follow his adventures as he 'grows up' in some things.
A fun read, I recommend it. :)
