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A review by jodeezle
Not the Girl You Marry by Andie J. Christopher
3.0
I was kind of disappointed in this book. I loved the cover, which honestly was the reason I picked it up, then reading the back I was like okay this will be good, because one of my favorite movies is ‘How to lose a guy in 10 days’. I can’t really say it was good but it wasn’t bad either. It was just ... okay.
The characters are very likable. Hannah is a girl that woman can relate to. She’s been hurt a time or two and is just done with relationships. She is tired of being asked to change who and how she is in order to make the other person happy. She is bi-racial and the last straw for her on the relationship front was being told in a sense that she wasn’t black enough. Then there is Jack. He, like Hannah, is tired of being the dumpee. He gives his all to the women, passes up job opportunities because it’s not good for the relationship, but still gets dumped. The author does a great job of building the characters and letting you know what they’ve been through to make them feel how they are feeling about relationships.
This book started off REALLY slow. It took me a quite a few days to get into it. Then once I got about half way through chapter 3 I was off and reading. Then just as things started to happen and their “relationship” took a hit and you wanted them to work things out. I slowed down a lot! Suddenly you were all in their thoughts and feelings, which I get that the author wants you to know how they felt about each other. I just felt like if you were actually reading the book you already got that. It felt like someone told her the book had to be a certain length and so she was filling in. I really liked the ending, not because the book was over but because I feel like she did a really good job wrapping up the loose ends.
All-in-all it was an okay book. I would recommend it to my friends, with the understanding that they not give up until at least chapter 4.
The characters are very likable. Hannah is a girl that woman can relate to. She’s been hurt a time or two and is just done with relationships. She is tired of being asked to change who and how she is in order to make the other person happy. She is bi-racial and the last straw for her on the relationship front was being told in a sense that she wasn’t black enough. Then there is Jack. He, like Hannah, is tired of being the dumpee. He gives his all to the women, passes up job opportunities because it’s not good for the relationship, but still gets dumped. The author does a great job of building the characters and letting you know what they’ve been through to make them feel how they are feeling about relationships.
This book started off REALLY slow. It took me a quite a few days to get into it. Then once I got about half way through chapter 3 I was off and reading. Then just as things started to happen and their “relationship” took a hit and you wanted them to work things out. I slowed down a lot! Suddenly you were all in their thoughts and feelings, which I get that the author wants you to know how they felt about each other. I just felt like if you were actually reading the book you already got that. It felt like someone told her the book had to be a certain length and so she was filling in. I really liked the ending, not because the book was over but because I feel like she did a really good job wrapping up the loose ends.
All-in-all it was an okay book. I would recommend it to my friends, with the understanding that they not give up until at least chapter 4.