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My Favourite Mistake

Marian Keyes

3.8 AVERAGE

kai_leishman's review

3.75

funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ellaminnowpea's review

4.0

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

romaccc's review

3.5

hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

kraftykoala's review against another edition

5.0

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Marian Keyes is joy.

glencoco's review against another edition

3.75

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

wanderingwyatt's review against another edition

3.75

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

erica_reads_itall's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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The promo copy made this novel sound both timely and unusual, but I forgot to check the page count. The plot is spread very thinly over the book's 600 pages, and a great deal of real estate is devoted to meditations on middle age and menopause. I didn't find Anna a particularly insightful protagonist, so while I've enjoyed other Marian Keyes novels this one wasn't for me. DNF at 45%.

[I received a complimentary ARC from NetGalley and the publisher. Opinions are my own.]

amy_canfield's review against another edition

4.25

funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

harv's review against another edition

4.0

slow-paced

rhonaea's review against another edition

5.0

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Can a book really be like your favourite chocolate bar? This one is, I tell you.

Marian Keyes, now on book 16 and number 7 of the Walsh family, brings readers to the front and centre of Anna Walsh’s life. Living a glamorous life in New York, widowed young, thwarted in love, she opts for ‘the lemming jump’. Suddenly we are peeling off the layers of a complicated woman, messy relationships, family life and meeting the various characters in a remote Irish town.

If you love a love story, are happy to take a twisting Irish road to the end, and just basically love a good gossip, this will definitely satisfy you as much as that aforementioned bar of chocolate.

If you like Jane Austen’s wonderful, observational novels of love and human complexity, but wonder what happened to the maiden aunts (and perhaps welcome more contemporary language), his is one for you. Just grand!