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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
Found myself laughing along. Gentle humour. Lisa was an unlikeable character who redeemed herself a little by the end. Ashlings character deserved the happiness she found. I enjoy these books and often found myself reading when I should be doing something else.
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Reread, since I couldn't remember anything from the 1st time I read it in 2004.
Didn't rock my world, not a very big result from Marian Keyes but it's the kind of book that you can pick up at any given time and it will entertain you without making your head spin.
Didn't rock my world, not a very big result from Marian Keyes but it's the kind of book that you can pick up at any given time and it will entertain you without making your head spin.
I read this for a year-long challenge - the prompt was "a book published in 2000" - and I'm pretty sure I'd read it before, probably right about the time it came out originally, and man. It is an entire TRIP. Marian Keyes writing chicklit in the late 90s is clearly the grandmother of all the romance and adult contemporary that we get to read today, and all the bones of what we read now are there in this book, while it also is completely nothing like any of our 2024 romances. Fascinating. Honestly, I recommend digging up a Marian Keyes if you're a modern romance reader, just for the comparisons. How far we've come! How similar it all still is.
Really hated it when I first started but the last quarter of the book made it worth while.
Oh I see. The plot comes three- fourths of the way through the book. Good quick read. Some characters I liked, others I wanted to strangle. Seems pretty par for the course as far as chick lit goes.
Second reading warrants a decrease to 3/5. Not sure why it wasn't as good 10 years later, the 2nd time round, but books rarely are. Marian is still hilarious and lovely though. Still recommend her for a rainy-day good-times read.
This book was fun for its genre, but kind of silly. I enjoy her books for good beach reads