Review: The Catch by Louisa McCormack It took me a while to read this book. It was suppose to be humorous but I never even got a smile out of the story. I don’t think it was well-written and I didn’t care for most of the characters. I’ve been reading this book from the first of April in between other better books. I couldn’t seem to like the main character Minnie for some reason. I found the plot slow and I got bored but I finally manage to get to the end. I did like the information on the fishing industry and environment on Prince Edwards Island. The story begins when Minnie, a television producer in Toronto who gets stressed over her career so her boss thought she needed a break away from her work. Minnie decides to leave Toronto and spend the summer with her uncle Rex, an elderly man who has a home on the Island but has gone to some assisted living place temporarily on Prince Edwards Island. So Minnie has a place to stay at her uncle’s and she can visit him frequently where he was now staying. Rex claims he’s happy there and has made many friends. I did like his character and seemed like an older sweet man. So Minnie settled in for the summer and finds a simpler life, falls for a fisherman named Joe in the small village and they have a strange relationship that seemed more like a “fling for the summer” and that’s what I felt because they just didn’t seem to be a loving couple. They seemed distant towards each other but there were some sex scenes where they both enjoyed themselves. The story left no emotional impact on me and I predicted the ending before I got there. Some day I’m just going to bite the bullet and just put the book down unfinished and walk away…. It’s just hard when you have OCD….. ( )

I am not usually a big fan of Canadian fiction. However, The Catch has all the elements that make it a wonderfully perfect read.

Louisa McCormack has absolutely captured the essence of the perfect chik lit story. She has created a flawed but adorable main character in Minerva. She has given Minerva a brilliant cast of characters and more importantly she has set her novel in one of the most beautiful places in the world PEI.

I loved this smart novel - it touched my heartstrings, made me laugh and made me want to move to the Island immediately.

The writing is rich and full of deep, touching subtext and I found myself reading page after page to find out about Joe - would he and Minerva end up together or not? Wow! what else can you ask for - friends, LOVE AND PEI. I am jealous. ( )