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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
I wanted to love this book, but I have to say it left me a little flat.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
You’d think after reading this book I'd finally learn how to spell avocado but you’d be wrong. I was going to give it a 3/5 rating but the last 80 pages really pulled through and the last sentence made me laugh out loud, though I have no idea what it means - if anyone can understand the word ‘zymotic’ in relation to whirlwind Parisian romances please elucidate for me. This book was pretty far out of my usual genre/interest but I’m happy I read it; it helped me come up with what I think is a wonderful phrase though probably a grammatically incorrect one - ablutively bloviate - which describes almost every character in the book. Would definitely recommend it for a summer read on the beach to anyone interested.
This was a really well-written book and also highly entertaining. It’s about a girl who is gifted two years to do whatever she wants before returning to “normal life” in the 50s. It’s a period of time I’m not familiar with, and the author was also there during that period of time as an actress, so it gives it a different feel to the novel.
This was very well written and incredibly witty. At times the main character seems too frivolous or superficial, but overall it was a perfectly enjoyable, though light, read. Maybe a bit too deus ex machina at the end.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I didn't know anything about this book when I picked it up. Initially, I thought it was a modern novel, but when I turned the first page, I went back to the publishing date. It was an "oh gee golly" type phrase (and the fact that my edition was printed with an old fashioned typeface) that sealed the deal. Yup, this was a chick lit novel written in the 1950s. It's fun, goofy and pretty darn silly...a summer-read kind of book. Enjoyable enough but hardly memorable.
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
How I loved this! Its humor and modernity surprised and delighted me. Sally Jay is self-absorbed, fickle, unhinged, aimless, hungry, tempestuous, timeless, and absolutely wonderful. This pink-haired little weirdo is determined to capital L Live and I could have read about her shenanigans for hundreds of pages more.