Reviews

Smart Vs. Pretty by Valerie Frankel

hoserlauren's review

1.0

Couldn't finish. Got about 100 pages in and wondered to myself why I was continuing on so I decided not too. There was just too much ridiculousness with this book. Someone walks in to a sister's failing coffee shop and offers to help them increase business for free. Then they get interior design, for free. And a whole bunch of other things, for free. The marketing campaign is to bring in good looking single men and the one they choose as "Mr. Coffee" dies the day after he is chosen. Where was this book going with all this? I'm not sticking around to find out.

2catmom's review against another edition

2.0

i usually like this author, but i couldn't get into the book. i think it's the subject matter and the cliches. boring..

dhilderbrand's review

2.0

This took too long to finish. I felt like I was enjoying it as I went but I would put it down and not care if I picked it up again sometimes for a week or two and then it must made it hard to almost restart. Overall, I liked it, I just think when it takes you THAT long, it is because it hasn't really captured you. The characters were simply less developed and more predictable than I would have liked - there was so little depth to them initially, they certainly grew as the story progressed which was actually nice but even that aspect of them was stated to the reader instead of the reader knowing from having experienced it that the characters had grown

jenniegarcian's review against another edition

3.0

I find this book kind of strange it's like Lifetime, the producers of Friends and HBO got together to do weird stuff. The first 50 pages are a snooze fest! The action starts when Chick dies and it ends like a sitcom. It's pretty good though, that chunk in the middle it's pretty good.

qomareads's review

2.0

it was fun n light reading. nothing too stands out, n nothing too detail.
nice storyline.