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drewsof's review against another edition
4.0
A slim hazy weekend of a book, one that pulls you in and along too fast to really think too hard about it until the inevitable Monday-of-an-ending looms over the horizon. This isn't quite the sexual-thriller you might expect it to be, nor is it quite so humorous as it first appears. It's something far more complicated, and perhaps it's because Somers doesn't spell it out for the reader that it ends up being a more successful book for those complications. Yes, there are questions of entitled older men behaving badly, of the way they set poor examples for younger men, of the ways in which the comedy industry and the TV industry are flawed, the ways in which we don't really see each other as human (let alone when one of the people in an equation is a celebrity). It's a sad book without being SAD, a funny book without being FUNNY -- and worth your read over some weekend. So long as you finish before that Monday comes.
adityag's review against another edition
2.0
Clean prose. Disappointing plot. Two dimensional characers. The plot & underwhelming climax is the reason the book lost three stars.
The first half of the book was decent, and then it goes downhill from Saturday onwards. The characters are vapid with no depth whatsoever. Typical millenial angst. The plot showed spark only in parts, but largely a let down.
I made a blunder of expecting fireworks all over the place, given that it's about about a rudderless writer, June, who gets invited to a famous geezer's house for a weekend retreat. You know, a lot of things could go wrong, especially when the plot has got Sugar Daddy overtones written all over. I had to wiggle all the way to the climax (no pun intended) to find out if they f***ed or not.
Overall, Erin Somers shows a lot of promise as a writer. If you're looking for a chilled out read, without any expectations whatsoever, then this book will serve your needs. You could read it in one sitting. Preferably with alcohol. You'll need it.
The first half of the book was decent, and then it goes downhill from Saturday onwards. The characters are vapid with no depth whatsoever. Typical millenial angst. The plot showed spark only in parts, but largely a let down.
I made a blunder of expecting fireworks all over the place, given that it's about about a rudderless writer, June, who gets invited to a famous geezer's house for a weekend retreat. You know, a lot of things could go wrong, especially when the plot has got Sugar Daddy overtones written all over. I had to wiggle all the way to the climax (no pun intended) to find out if they f***ed or not.
Overall, Erin Somers shows a lot of promise as a writer. If you're looking for a chilled out read, without any expectations whatsoever, then this book will serve your needs. You could read it in one sitting. Preferably with alcohol. You'll need it.
mkduds's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Audiobook review. This was an easy, light listen. I think the excellent narrator carried this book for me. I enjoyed it, but I wonder if that was because of the narrator. Maybe I would have liked it just as much if I read it on paper, but I haven’t heard a narrator that I thought fit a book so perfectly before.
laranda's review against another edition
2.0
Quite enjoyed the story and the way of telling it. I liked the back and forth between dialogue and the narrator recounting the conversations. June felt like a real person with all her bravado and insecurities. Felt the book was good as a whole, but the end seemed like it just fluttered along.
jules_cr's review against another edition
2.0
I listened to the audiobook thinking this would be an amusing story of an interesting woman who had something to say about late night television, her hero, or working in comedy. It wasn't and she didn't. June is a dull, flat character who seems to drift along with minimal effort, with vague dreams/aspirations of being famous (or funny). She spends an odd weekend with famous late night host Hugo Best. The weekend ends and so does the book. In the final chapter, she remarks how it became a 3 minute anecdote. The book would have been much better that way.
elleinadarat's review against another edition
2.0
Meh. This book wasn't for me. I found June pretty annoying, Hugo not someone I would want to admire, and the minor characters pretty unremarkable.
abetterfate's review against another edition
3.0
I quit about 80% of the way through. I could've powered through it and just finished the damn book, but I'm already reading something dense and don't see the point in trudging through multiple texts.
This book was aggressively fine. It was somewhat amusing (nothing approaching what I would call "hilarious") and the writing was competent. But there was no driving force, no intimate character study -- no there there -- that made me want to keep reading.
This book was aggressively fine. It was somewhat amusing (nothing approaching what I would call "hilarious") and the writing was competent. But there was no driving force, no intimate character study -- no there there -- that made me want to keep reading.
lizsmartie13's review against another edition
2.0
This is the lowest rated book on my list this year, so I was expecting this to be pretty bad. It’s definitely not bad, but I’m not sure if it’s good either. The writing is fairly strong, and I was actually enjoying the first 2/3, but it really tapers off at the end and it sort of resolves with a shrug. I feel like there was a real opportunity here to say something interesting and it just... kinda... didn’t.
leaflibrary's review
3.0
Two shallow New Yorkers two generations apart (don't) connect during a weekend trip out of the city.