Riley hates New Year’s Resolutions. She makes them every year, and every year, she fails to complete them. She thinks she’ll just skip the whole thing for once, but her mother insists. Deciding to make the easiest resolution ever, Riley sets her goal—she’ll save her pennies all year long and at the end, she’ll buy something nice for herself.
This plan only lasts a short time, though. She works in a care center for cancer patients, and as she sees them come in day after day for their chemotherapy, her heart is touched and she wants to do something to help them. She changes her mind. She’s not going to use her pennies on herself—she’s going to donate them to cancer research.
Soon her co-workers learn the secret and start throwing their pennies into the pot, too. Then hospital employees join her crusade. Before long, she’s got over a thousand pennies, and takes them in to the bank to cash them in for paper money, but the teller, an irate guy named Paul, makes her experience anything but fun.
On her next trip to the bank, she and Paul actually strike up a conversation, and they start seeing each other. But her love life is complicated by the sudden appearance of a secret admirer who fills her car with pennies, sends her flowers, and does everything he can to sweep her off her feet. Her time is spent organizing fundraisers for more pennies, dating Paul, and trying to figure out who her mystery penny donator is.
In the end, she learns the real value of a penny and the importance of true and honest relationships.
I really enjoyed this fun chick lit book. The humor was great, the author has an entertaining way of expressing herself through her characters, and I liked the plot and development.
(This book was published in 2008 by Bonneville Books.)
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