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3.24 AVERAGE
3.24 AVERAGE
I picked it up because I needed a beachy/no brainer/escape read and I just was so irritated that the characters could be so implausible and more like caricatures instead of actual characters. I just couldn't buy into it since it wasn't a fantasy novel, but more one of those awful rom coms where the plot line and characters are so unbelievable and unrealistic and you just end up disliking everyone. Like, I kept imagining Katherine Heigl as one of the characters and that is not a compliment. But I'm pregnant and cranky so maybe I'm totally wrong.
Sometimes you just want to read a fluffy, pg-13 romance.
this book was 150 pages too long and I didn’t like a single character
Sadly all of her books are starting to sound the same. I thoroughly enjoyed all of her others. However this one was just too similar to the others to finish...
This was a fun read - not believable in the least, but I could see it as a Hollywood movie. This was nothing other than chick-lit, but I enjoyed the whole idea of reuniting with your first love - because who hasn't thought about that at one point?
This was so not worth reading. Possibly my least favorite of her books. Not funny or clever like I usually think she is.
I'd say this is a 3.75 but not quite a 4 so we're giving it the old 3 on goodreads.
This was DEFINITELY a farce -- but where I don't love farce's on stage, in book form it seemed more believable and more fun and it felt easier to slip into a land where these farcical things really could be occurring.
I have read quite a few of Kinsella's books now, and I do generally enjoy her writing style and character choices, but this one was extra fun. She sort of talks at you sometimes and jumps ahead of herself much like, in my opinion, how real people work when they are stressed about something or excited about something and so on.
I really enjoyed the fact that the secondary characters were featured in this almost to the same extent that the leads are featured. And that the lead protagonist sort of changes throughout but not in a confusing way. It's sometimes Fliss and it's sometimes Lottie, but their relationship as sisters is always featured, so you never really know which one is our heroine or if they really both are. Which again means that the secondary characters really get chance to pop in both of their stories.
I also liked that we got a snapshot into one more characters mind just for 3 pages - it meant the reader got a sneak preview of what was to come, like in a good romcom movie -- which was lots of fun. Not to mention how it made it feel more like a surprise for one of our leading ladies that you weren't expecting (even if you expected the who to get to her, this addition came out of no where really and was therefore epic and perfect.) I also liked that it was spur of the moment to have this chapter with this new voice, much like it was spur of the moment for the secondary character to do what they did.
I also loved that she condemned the bad and not well thought out actions of the characters throughout the book through the other characters, but generally not in a judgemental way. It made it feel more relatable, grounded and real instead of all up in the air all the time like a lot of farce is.
It lost me a little in some of the bitterness and in some of the choices made by both Fliss and Lottie, but I think that all of the 'bad' choices were really the point of this book, and if you pick farce's a lot, this will be a very welcome addition.
Overall I would say: It was a funny and cute farce filled with quite a bit of heart.
Would definitely recommend you give it a read if you can get into the world of farce and are feeling in need of a pick me up.
This was DEFINITELY a farce -- but where I don't love farce's on stage, in book form it seemed more believable and more fun and it felt easier to slip into a land where these farcical things really could be occurring.
I have read quite a few of Kinsella's books now, and I do generally enjoy her writing style and character choices, but this one was extra fun. She sort of talks at you sometimes and jumps ahead of herself much like, in my opinion, how real people work when they are stressed about something or excited about something and so on.
I really enjoyed the fact that the secondary characters were featured in this almost to the same extent that the leads are featured. And that the lead protagonist sort of changes throughout but not in a confusing way. It's sometimes Fliss and it's sometimes Lottie, but their relationship as sisters is always featured, so you never really know which one is our heroine or if they really both are. Which again means that the secondary characters really get chance to pop in both of their stories.
I also liked that we got a snapshot into one more characters mind just for 3 pages - it meant the reader got a sneak preview of what was to come, like in a good romcom movie -- which was lots of fun. Not to mention how it made it feel more like a surprise for one of our leading ladies that you weren't expecting (even if you expected the who to get to her, this addition came out of no where really and was therefore epic and perfect.) I also liked that it was spur of the moment to have this chapter with this new voice, much like it was spur of the moment for the secondary character to do what they did.
I also loved that she condemned the bad and not well thought out actions of the characters throughout the book through the other characters, but generally not in a judgemental way. It made it feel more relatable, grounded and real instead of all up in the air all the time like a lot of farce is.
It lost me a little in some of the bitterness and in some of the choices made by both Fliss and Lottie, but I think that all of the 'bad' choices were really the point of this book, and if you pick farce's a lot, this will be a very welcome addition.
Overall I would say: It was a funny and cute farce filled with quite a bit of heart.
Would definitely recommend you give it a read if you can get into the world of farce and are feeling in need of a pick me up.