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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
I picked up my first Marian Keyes book during the pandemic and the proceeded to read every book of hers I could get my hands on. And she has been a must read author for me ever since. The latest instalment in the Walsh Family Series is out and I love it.
Anna Walsh has walked a long hard road to get her enviable life. An apartment in NYC, the best job in the world as a PR rep for a major makeup company, and the sweetest boyfriend ever. But during lockdown she comes to the terrifying realization that she doesn’t want any of it anymore. Homesick for Ireland she heads home to reevaluate and start the next chapter of her life. When offered a job helping out a family friend’s new spa/retreat who is having some issues with the local community she takes it despite having to work with the one man she hoped to never see again.
I think one of my favourite things about Keys characters is none of them are saints or villains. She has created a community of characters who are completely three dimensional. And happy ever after into the sunset is not the kind of endings we get, when we check back in on characters down the road real life has kept happening to them and they have done their best to keep going.
Thank you so much to Penguin Random House and Netgally for letting me have a copy of My Favourite Mistake for review.
Anna Walsh has walked a long hard road to get her enviable life. An apartment in NYC, the best job in the world as a PR rep for a major makeup company, and the sweetest boyfriend ever. But during lockdown she comes to the terrifying realization that she doesn’t want any of it anymore. Homesick for Ireland she heads home to reevaluate and start the next chapter of her life. When offered a job helping out a family friend’s new spa/retreat who is having some issues with the local community she takes it despite having to work with the one man she hoped to never see again.
I think one of my favourite things about Keys characters is none of them are saints or villains. She has created a community of characters who are completely three dimensional. And happy ever after into the sunset is not the kind of endings we get, when we check back in on characters down the road real life has kept happening to them and they have done their best to keep going.
Thank you so much to Penguin Random House and Netgally for letting me have a copy of My Favourite Mistake for review.
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
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:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
I think I've aged out of Ms. Keyes novels. I read Rachel's Holiday a couple of decades ago. I was the same age and time as the protagonist and I could really identify. Now, the lives of the sisters seem overly intricate and complicated. I don't know who these people are anymore.
An easy enough read. This is about an Anna, a woman in her late forties. She is living in New York with a very stressful job but a loving partner. But then Covid hit and their relationship was not strong enough to survive. So she moves back to Ireland to be with her family. There she gets a new job as PR for a friend of hers. She has to move to a tiny village to try and soothe the locals. In doing so she meets Joey, a man from her past who seems to have slept with every woman of their acquaintance except for Anna. They need to solve a mystery and get together before the end of the book. The mystery was a bit hopeless and peters out before the end. But the village characters were engaging and I liked her family.
Enjoyable book with good insight into the psychological nature of changing, individually and in relationships. Quite steamy, amusing but too many characters. 3.5
Brutal. Big fan of Marian Keyes but just could not get into this. Too many characters too soon. And bad flow. Gave up after 25%
A wonderful installment for the Walsh family saga. I enjoyed getting to know Anna again and all the new characters in M'town. As always, lovely writing - thank you Marian Keyes.