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3.14 AVERAGE
3.14 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Ich muss gestehen, dass mich dieses Buch nicht von den Socken gehauen hat. Der Schreibstil der Autorin war zwar ganz ok, aber die Handlung war teils richtig langweilig, belanglos und die Geschichte zog sich dahin.
Daher nur 3 von 5 Sternen.
Daher nur 3 von 5 Sternen.
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If you like self-absorbed heroines, you’re in luck. If not, skip this book. She’s childish and churlish, and the back of the book is misleading. The main character doesn’t set out to deal with anything. Rather, insight is thrust upon her.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If you like reading books about self-absorbed heroines, you’re in luck. If not, this is not the book for you.
I couldn't really get into the book, unfortunately. There were always passages that really gripped me and I thought finally, but then... I'm generally not a fan of love triangles and this was a love square really with Peter, Sean and Mitch. The problem for me was that neither was ever really developed and so I couldn't really get into any of it. The book isn't bad, not at all. I just feel like the aspects touched upon could have been drawn out way better. This is a story I'll most likely forget again very soon unfortunately.
It's like a Hallmark movie in book form (and that's NOT a compliment).
I found the main character Grace very annoying. The book is set up for you to empathize with her and see how she struggles because she lost her boyfriend and her job, so now as a last resort she has to move in with her rich parents for a few weeks during which time she's offered jobs, and pursued romantically by three different men! Ya you've got it tough, Grace.
I found the main character Grace very annoying. The book is set up for you to empathize with her and see how she struggles because she lost her boyfriend and her job, so now as a last resort she has to move in with her rich parents for a few weeks during which time she's offered jobs, and pursued romantically by three different men! Ya you've got it tough, Grace.
I highly recommend this book. Simses' book is about love & grammar and so much more. The reader meets Grace where she has lost her job, her boyfriend and has temporarily been displaced from her apartment, so suffice it to say she is in the midst of crisis. We find Grace back in her small little hometown of Dorset. There she must reflect on her life, both the past and present, and how the former has greatly shaped the latter. The handling of the subject of loss while an ever-present part it did not become overwhelming. This is Grace's story and not the story of her loss, yet her loss is a real part of that story. Simses subtly shines an important spotlight on the concept of Perspective. She is perhaps successful in this because of the way that even minor characters are fully developed.
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
As someone who has been known to point out typos on a menu... I can relate to the character of Grace Hammond. However, Grace's predicaments are super cliché (including an inevitable scene where a guy has to get close to Grace in order to show her how to properly hold a pool cue...) (eye roll).
But, if you like books that are well-written, and not full of sex scenes, and you don't mind romantic tropes, you'll enjoy this.
But, if you like books that are well-written, and not full of sex scenes, and you don't mind romantic tropes, you'll enjoy this.
I don't usually write reviews, but this book was so irritating that I decided I had to say something about it. Overall, it's just not very interesting, there's not much of a story arc (events take place, but don't really feel like they build toward anything), the characters don't really develop, and the writing is very pedantic. The author comes across very heavy-handed in establishing her message: "The moral of this story is HERE. Did you catch the symbolism HERE? With the BIKE?" I wish it were more subtle.
Grace is an annoying protagonist who basically acts like a teenager the whole time. She fawns over her high school boyfriend who's back in town, but is too afraid to talk unless she feels threatened by the high school queen bee making a move on him. She throws a tantrum when her dad tries to offer career advice or help. She can't figure out how she feels about the 3 men who are into her. When she messes up, she doesn't take responsibility for her actions and offers non-apologies.
Things keep going until Grace has a cathartic hug-it-out talk with her parents that magically resolves all her childhood trauma and grief of her sister's death about 300 pages in, after which she magically resolves to become a new person for no apparent reason! It lasts for all of two seconds before she reverts back to lying to make herself look better when backed into a corner. And best of all, one of the 3 men finally declares his love for her on literally the second to last page of the book before the epilogue. Not worth the time to read the 368 pages.
Grace is an annoying protagonist who basically acts like a teenager the whole time. She fawns over her high school boyfriend who's back in town, but is too afraid to talk unless she feels threatened by the high school queen bee making a move on him. She throws a tantrum when her dad tries to offer career advice or help. She can't figure out how she feels about the 3 men who are into her. When she messes up, she doesn't take responsibility for her actions and offers non-apologies.
Things keep going until Grace has a cathartic hug-it-out talk with her parents that magically resolves all her childhood trauma and grief of her sister's death about 300 pages in, after which she magically resolves to become a new person for no apparent reason! It lasts for all of two seconds before she reverts back to lying to make herself look better when backed into a corner. And best of all, one of the 3 men finally declares his love for her on literally the second to last page of the book before the epilogue. Not worth the time to read the 368 pages.