Dumping Billy by Olivia Goldsmith

This past quarter I read Dumping Billy by Olivia Goldsmith. To be short, the short is narrated from the pov of a woman named Kate Jameson from New York. She recently receives news that her best friend, Bina, recently got dumped by her boyfriend of 3 years. That's when Kate is introduced to a man named Billy Nolan that dates a lot of girls and dumps everyone of them; however, every girl Billy has dumped has quickly gotten married after. Kate decides to try to get Billy to date and dump Bina so that her boyfriend will come back and propose to her. Although the main characters in this novel are mostly Kate, Billy, and Bina, my favorite character was more of a minute character named Elliot: Kate's funny exuberant friend from New York.

I really enjoyed Elliot because he spiced up the novel a lot when it got dull. He always made funny, rhetorical remarks and had a very strong personality. Honestly, he reminded me much of myself because he was very outgoing, friendly, and easy to talk to you. For example, when the novel starts Elliot has never met Bina in person. He first meets her when she explodes in tears from being dumped, and he immediately comforts her and seems like he has known her forever. He also mostly comes up with the scheme to get Bina to date Billy and eventually get her boyfriend back. All in all,  Elliot is one of the most perfect supporting characters and fits really well into this sassy and humorous book.