Monkey Love

by Brenda Scott Royce

Holly Heckerling has a great set of power tools, and she knows how to use them. It's a good thing, because her career as a stand-up comic isn't exactly paying the rent...yet. But nothing's going to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451217543
• ISBN13: 9780451217547
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: New American Library
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Had me laughing out loud

I read A LOT of books and before reading Mokey Love I had only come across one book that had me laughing out loud. I loved this book from start to finish. Holly and her monkey friend kept me laughing through out the entire book. It's wonderfully funny.

Buy this book and grab a bar of chocolate!!!

Hop, slither, swing, or run to get your hands on a copy of Monkey Love. You'll be absolutely charmed by Holly, utterly appalled by her relatives, and eager to see how Holly handles her exotic animal menagerie! More than that, Holly will touch your heart with her struggles to be true to herself and to find love in the big city. When you finish reading this book, you'll heave a deep sigh of satisfaction and just be that much happier in the world knowing there's a writer like Brenda Scott Royce creating great characters and engrossing stories. Gosh, what a great read! I eagerly anticipate her next book!

Best New Author

Best new book I've read in ages! Laugh-out-loud funny. Not to be missed--can't wait for the author's next book.

Monkey Love

This story was fast paced, funny, yet not in an entirely slapstick way. The humor was excellent and delivered in a well-timed fashion. It seemed perhaps Ms. Scott Royce has herself tried stand up comedy. I bought this book thinking of romance and ended up appreciating the many levels of the dysfunctional family, and having a distinct hankering to walk the streets of New York again. Oh, and I did fall in love, just not with the hero. Don't get me wrong, he's perfectly lovable, but I fell in love with the monkey. Long live Tallulah.

More Fun Than a Barrel of Monkeys

It sounds like a pretty easy recipe to turn chick lit into comedy: just add monkey. But Brenda Scott Royce's gift for comedy begins long before her heroine, Holly Heckerling, winds up caring for the monkey Tallulah. In addition to working a variety of odd jobs (some odder than others), Holly has been moonlighting as a stand up comedian. With comedy, humor often comes not only from the situation but from the delivery. Brenda Scott Royce really understands that concept. Holly Heckerling gets herself into a variety of situations (as in situation comedy)-- an early example in the novel: Holly removing a would be actress's leg cast with power tools. I won't even delve too deeply into Tallulah the monkey's reactions to Regis Philbin. What ups the comedy level in these situations and throughout the novel are Holly's own observations about what's going on. Brenda Scott Royce has a great comic voice and a perfect character through with to speak in Holly Heckerling. Brenda Scott Royce also has a wonderful gift for crafting poignant moments that don't turn maudlin or prevent the reader from comfortably getting back into laugh mode. There is a moving scene in which Holly meets David, the quadriplegic whom Tallulah has been trained to assist. Royce has created a New York in which it makes perfect sense that an aspring stand up comic would be housing a monkey and a boa constrictor in her sixth floor walk-up. It's just one more slice of the craziness in Holly's life, but a craziness not so far removed from reality that we can't all relate to it. That's part of the fun of this novel, part of the humor, the belief (the fear maybe or the hope) that all this zaniness could happen in our own lives. Janet Evanovich's blurb on the front cover likens the novel to a jelly donut; I see "Monkey Love" more as a many-layered cake with lots and lots of frosting.