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Just One of the Guys
by Kristan Higgins
Kristan Higgins has been recommended by bloggers whose taste in media usually corresponds with my own. I picked this one to start with because the main character's a journalist and I'm a journalist. I thought it would be fun. Turned out, that was a big mistake.
I read fantasy and romance, I'm usually willing to suspend belief for the sake of a good story. However, it turns out when it comes to my job, I get nit-picky. Now maybe things are different in Vermont, but it's hard to imagine a small newspaper having a food editor, but no sports writer. And there's a part where Chastity, the main character, conducts an interview and I couldn't help thinking, "She's supposed to have a master's degree in journalism from Columbia?"
It was also hard for me to believe that she had enough drive to get a degree in a competitive field at a competitive school and then that she lost her ambition. I can understand it happening, but the book didn't sell it to me. Reporters who aren't obsessed with what they do tend to end up in PR.
So maybe that's why I couldn't get into this novel as much. I got hung up on the details. The writing is snappy, but the characters are so-so and I wasn't really rooting for them. I wanted to like this book, but it was only okay.
I read fantasy and romance, I'm usually willing to suspend belief for the sake of a good story. However, it turns out when it comes to my job, I get nit-picky. Now maybe things are different in Vermont, but it's hard to imagine a small newspaper having a food editor, but no sports writer. And there's a part where Chastity, the main character, conducts an interview and I couldn't help thinking, "She's supposed to have a master's degree in journalism from Columbia?"
It was also hard for me to believe that she had enough drive to get a degree in a competitive field at a competitive school and then that she lost her ambition. I can understand it happening, but the book didn't sell it to me. Reporters who aren't obsessed with what they do tend to end up in PR.
So maybe that's why I couldn't get into this novel as much. I got hung up on the details. The writing is snappy, but the characters are so-so and I wasn't really rooting for them. I wanted to like this book, but it was only okay.