Lainie is determined to meet up with Blaine Harper and continue where she left off in high school. She wants to date Blaine and spark up a romance that never happened so many years ago. Blaine was the bomb in high school and years later, he is still handsome.

Lainie has issues with her self-esteem and the lies she tells to hold onto her dignity and pretend that she is someone she’s not. There is a funny scene at the restaurant with Lainie which is sad, but very funny. She is so desperate to show her sister; Trish that she has money, she ends up committing a crime to keep up the charade.

Lainie meets Jack who puts a hole into her plans, of course. Dating Game by Beverly Brandt is not just a novel about dating. It’s a comedy full of antics, like an old television show filled with clowning around activities, and dating in the nineties; when Lainie comes home to find herself and realizes the true meeting of love. This is a story worth reading because Lainie is a character most of us can relate to because we have been in her shoes.

Romance is thrown in when Lainie gets a job at a private investigation firm where she meets Jack and his brother Duncan, who are very funny characters. Lainie and Jack are attracted to each other. Jack is rich and Lainie believes that she’s not in the same league with Jack, but the chemistry is there between the two, and this makes an interesting read. With a little PI investigation thrown in, this story is a page turner to the very end. I was spellbound and mesmerized by every page in anticipation of the next scene. Dating Game by Beverly Brandt is a winner.