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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
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
Marian Keyes' books may be considered "beach reads," but her characters have surprising depth. This story delves into the lives of Ashling, a Miss Fix-it who is actually teetering on the brink, Lisa, a boss from hell with a broken heart, and Clodagh, the woman who has it all but doesn't actually want any of it.