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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
Normally I think epilogues are cheesy in a romance novel, but I kinda wanted an epilogue here! How does it work out?? How do they navigate the press together?? I must know!
Best quote: "I’m fighting the fear that I’m no more than a stepping-stone to every man who has ever meant anything to me."
Best quote: "I’m fighting the fear that I’m no more than a stepping-stone to every man who has ever meant anything to me."
Cute! Very sweet first love story! I would have liked more time on the second love part of the story, of why she falls for him again. Also, I felt like there were a few major threads that didn't end up resolved at the end: her dad, her grandmother, was the movie a success? and so on! But fun and enjoyable!
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Tudo sobre esse livro é ruim
Não sei como eu que odeio second chance fui ler um livro chamado segunda chance e achei que ia ser bom.
Recebi uma grande porcaria
Um perdão meia boca
Ela é mansa que aceita qualquer porcaria do pai safado, do par romântico, de qualquer um.
E ele é um otario.
O casal não tem química tudo sobre eles me irrita, tudo é mal construído voce não torce para eles e sim contra eles e quando ficam juntos você sente unicamente decepção
Sabe quando aquela sua amiga volta para aquele ex lixo que você passou o tempo todo xingando criticando? Foi assim que eu me senti no final
Não sei como eu que odeio second chance fui ler um livro chamado segunda chance e achei que ia ser bom.
Recebi uma grande porcaria
Um perdão meia boca
Ela é mansa que aceita qualquer porcaria do pai safado, do par romântico, de qualquer um.
E ele é um otario.
O casal não tem química tudo sobre eles me irrita, tudo é mal construído voce não torce para eles e sim contra eles e quando ficam juntos você sente unicamente decepção
Sabe quando aquela sua amiga volta para aquele ex lixo que você passou o tempo todo xingando criticando? Foi assim que eu me senti no final
I rather liked the beginning half, two kids falling in love. The stars were earned for that. And the idea that Sam sold her out for his grandfathers health is actually about the only way to make it palatable. Basically the bad guy becomes the horrible US health care system. But the idea that two people who fall in love at 18 and 21 respectively don’t change and are still somehow still in love 14 years later is laughable. Either they didn’t evolve in 14 years or 20 minutes into this relationship they will realize they are both idealizing the kid versions of the other. Life changes you. Marriage and relationships are hard because you have to keep reconnecting as you change. “Persuasion” is such an impressive novel not because of the the trope of reunited love , but because it actually reunited them and had them fall in love in the here and now. Obviously, Austen is Austen, but if you are going to do this trope you have the make me believe it.
Plus the second half is disjointed with random characters moving in and out. It felt like either the second section needed fleshed out more, and the first thinned significantly. Overall okay, but given I’ve felt that way about all their books (despite fun premises), I may quit with this author. Fine books just not for me!
Plus the second half is disjointed with random characters moving in and out. It felt like either the second section needed fleshed out more, and the first thinned significantly. Overall okay, but given I’ve felt that way about all their books (despite fun premises), I may quit with this author. Fine books just not for me!
emotional
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
Good book. While the overall flow of the plot was predictable, the nuances of the story of the MMC’s family gave additional depth and interest in the story.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Wanted more from the ending.
Tate has a famous movie star father but doesn’t see him often. She lives in upstate New York with her mom and grandmother. They run a little cafe. Apparently the mom ran off to Los Angeles and met actor Ian Butler and got pregnant. Things didn’t work out and she returned home and they all kept Tate a secret.
In London on a trip with her grandmother, 18-year-old Tate meets another American (of course) names Sam. She has sex for the first time with him and they enjoy the two weeks vacation together and fall in love. She apparently has has an orgasm her first time? (I know I’m old and jaded.) Unfortunately in the end, Sam exposes Tate to the tabloids.
Jump ahead 14 years and Tate is now a successful actress. I guess after her outing she skipped her college plans and went right into it. There’s no mention about any sort of training.
I wasn’t keen on the description of the kind of films she’d done. Very mainstream. I guess that’s why I shouldn’t read mainstream novels. She’s done seven films and has an Emmy nomination. There’s prestige television now but most new actresses either do film or television and it would be rare to have that Emmy nomination when she’s done seven films. It’s rare the young actress that can toggle between both.
Predictably, she and her father are doing a film on a farm and the screenwriter is none other than her first love Sam. It’s all about Sam’s grandparents, an interracial couple. Earlier in the novel we get the story on Sam’s grandparents because Sam was traveling in London with his grandfather. It took way longer than expected for Tate to even realize it was written by Sam.
I did love when Tate said this to her best friend: “I’m here, single, lonely, with all kinds of baggage, and he’s fucking married. With daughters.”
In London on a trip with her grandmother, 18-year-old Tate meets another American (of course) names Sam. She has sex for the first time with him and they enjoy the two weeks vacation together and fall in love. She apparently has has an orgasm her first time? (I know I’m old and jaded.) Unfortunately in the end, Sam exposes Tate to the tabloids.
Jump ahead 14 years and Tate is now a successful actress. I guess after her outing she skipped her college plans and went right into it. There’s no mention about any sort of training.
I wasn’t keen on the description of the kind of films she’d done. Very mainstream. I guess that’s why I shouldn’t read mainstream novels. She’s done seven films and has an Emmy nomination. There’s prestige television now but most new actresses either do film or television and it would be rare to have that Emmy nomination when she’s done seven films. It’s rare the young actress that can toggle between both.
Predictably, she and her father are doing a film on a farm and the screenwriter is none other than her first love Sam. It’s all about Sam’s grandparents, an interracial couple. Earlier in the novel we get the story on Sam’s grandparents because Sam was traveling in London with his grandfather. It took way longer than expected for Tate to even realize it was written by Sam.
I did love when Tate said this to her best friend: “I’m here, single, lonely, with all kinds of baggage, and he’s fucking married. With daughters.”