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A review by mrsbooknerd
Summer Daydreams by Carole Matthews
1.0
I'm all for uplifting, happy novels but jeez. Everything the lead character Nell touched turned to gold! One day she wants to make a handbag and two chapters later she's being whisked away to Buckingham Palace to meet Prince Charles?! Then comes the huge deals, the celebrities with her bags and big business?! All of these things could have happened throughout the novel, granted, it IS fiction, but for it to all largely happen within a few chapters was a bit much.
Nell came across as too arrogant for me. She was annoyed when her husband and friend got too close but went for dates with her agent/mentor... One moment she was shocked at the publicity her bags were getting, and the next she was congratulating herself on being a creative genius...
I liked Olly, and felt that he was in the right for a lot of the novel, Nell made all the major decisions without him and I was expecting them to break up and stay that way. Their wedding was a ridiculous event that was only apparently worthy of a chapter of the book despite being a huge personal change for the family. Oh and I really didn't like their kid, she was meant, I think, to be comic relief but she just came across like a brat and a bit mouthy.
Overall I read it, (Mostly, I did start skipping parts towards the end) but I didn't really enjoy it at all. It was all too good to be true and not like some of Matthews other feel-good books which have better developed characters and plots. This novel was rushed, forced and unbelievable even for someone with an imagination like mine.
Nell came across as too arrogant for me. She was annoyed when her husband and friend got too close but went for dates with her agent/mentor... One moment she was shocked at the publicity her bags were getting, and the next she was congratulating herself on being a creative genius...
I liked Olly, and felt that he was in the right for a lot of the novel, Nell made all the major decisions without him and I was expecting them to break up and stay that way. Their wedding was a ridiculous event that was only apparently worthy of a chapter of the book despite being a huge personal change for the family. Oh and I really didn't like their kid, she was meant, I think, to be comic relief but she just came across like a brat and a bit mouthy.
Overall I read it, (Mostly, I did start skipping parts towards the end) but I didn't really enjoy it at all. It was all too good to be true and not like some of Matthews other feel-good books which have better developed characters and plots. This novel was rushed, forced and unbelievable even for someone with an imagination like mine.