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indrabar 's review for:
The Undomestic Goddess
by Sophie Kinsella
I will admit it, I laughed more than once, there were one or two lines that had me on the verge of perhaps thinking about tearing up, and on the whole, I was entertained. At least for a while.
HOWEVER. I feel like either Kinsella knows nothing about how much journalists would actually care about a disgraced lawyer, or else she had some sort of inkling, when she wrote the book, of how mundane and trivial our 'news' would become. Looking at it from the second perspective, I suppose the whole kerfuffle over Samantha makes sense. It is still ridiculous and frustrating, but I can see the possibility of all that commotion.
Samantha herself felt inconsistent and not very real - it was nice to see how she recognized her need for change once the law firm showed up at the Geiger's house, but her wiffle-waffling was drawn out to the point of boredom. Not once was I wondering "will she or won't she?" it was simply a matter of enduring until she finally did.
Let's not even mention how contrived and absolutely forced the last seen was. Deus ex machina? More like ex nusquam, amantis. Literally.
Also, this was an exploratory step into a genre I usually avoid. I think, despite being mildly entertained during the first 2/3 of the story, that the ending was enough sappiness,contrived drama, and Lifetime-movie cheesiness to convince me that perhaps a second step would not be worth it.
HOWEVER. I feel like either Kinsella knows nothing about how much journalists would actually care about a disgraced lawyer, or else she had some sort of inkling, when she wrote the book, of how mundane and trivial our 'news' would become. Looking at it from the second perspective, I suppose the whole kerfuffle over Samantha makes sense. It is still ridiculous and frustrating, but I can see the possibility of all that commotion.
Samantha herself felt inconsistent and not very real - it was nice to see how she recognized her need for change once the law firm showed up at the Geiger's house, but her wiffle-waffling was drawn out to the point of boredom. Not once was I wondering "will she or won't she?" it was simply a matter of enduring until she finally did.
Let's not even mention how contrived and absolutely forced the last seen was. Deus ex machina? More like ex nusquam, amantis. Literally.
Also, this was an exploratory step into a genre I usually avoid. I think, despite being mildly entertained during the first 2/3 of the story, that the ending was enough sappiness,contrived drama, and Lifetime-movie cheesiness to convince me that perhaps a second step would not be worth it.