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A Version of the Truth
by Karen Mack, Jennifer Kaufman
Cassie Shaw is a woman in her 30’s who feels like she’s missed out on life. A car accident a few years ago claimed her no-good husband, and now that she’s living with her mom and unemployed again, she’s looking for a new lease on life. With no degree, no serious job history, and nothing really going for her, Cassie decides to lie on her resume about her educational background and lands a job as an administrative assistant at the local university, helping out in the psych department. Making friends with the professors and sparking a few romances, Cassie starts to change from a meek woman with questions about her intelligence to someone sophisticated and smart who can hold her own in an intellectual discussion. Will a slip of the tongue bring her new life to a screeching halt or will she be able to convince her new friends that a college degree isn’t everything?
To be completely honest, I hated this book. Cassie is obsessed with birds and nature, and while her descriptions of wildlife may interest some readers, they really turned me off. The plot was predictable, the characters were flat, and I felt as though too many bad things happened to Cassie throughout the book to be redeemed by the happy ending (and I don’t feel like that’s a spoiler - does chick lit ever have a sad ending?).
The transformation Cassie goes through, from becoming a woman who barely scraped by with her GED, married a tow truck driver, and was never able to grow out of her awkward, mousy appearance to college sophisticate attending art galas and the symphony was really hard for me to believe.
This was just a cheesy, lackluster attempt at the genre I love. If you’re a nature lover, you might find some enjoyment out of it, but for all others, I’d recommend you pass this book by.
To be completely honest, I hated this book. Cassie is obsessed with birds and nature, and while her descriptions of wildlife may interest some readers, they really turned me off. The plot was predictable, the characters were flat, and I felt as though too many bad things happened to Cassie throughout the book to be redeemed by the happy ending (and I don’t feel like that’s a spoiler - does chick lit ever have a sad ending?).
The transformation Cassie goes through, from becoming a woman who barely scraped by with her GED, married a tow truck driver, and was never able to grow out of her awkward, mousy appearance to college sophisticate attending art galas and the symphony was really hard for me to believe.
This was just a cheesy, lackluster attempt at the genre I love. If you’re a nature lover, you might find some enjoyment out of it, but for all others, I’d recommend you pass this book by.