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brandidean 's review for:
My Very '90s Romance
by Jenny Colgan
This got better as it went along. In the beginning, I thought Colgan just seemed to be trying way too hard, which made a certain amount of sense, since it’s her first book, just being republished. There for a while, I didn’t like any of the characters. But they evened out, got to be a little less abrasive. I think you’d really have to be stretching to find the decoy romance at all appealing or probable, but the romance waiting in the wings is likable enough.
BTW, like several of Colgan’s books, the title of this one has pretty much nothing to do with anything. More so than usual here. This wasn’t even released until the 2000s. There are a few TV show references that date it, and I guess what her florist friend is part of is the grunge scene? But there’s nothing very specifically 90s about this, except the lack of real cell phones and the newness of online dating. (But even if there were ... that title still wouldn’t really fit unless it was about someone today having a romance that would fit better in the 90s, right? If someone in the 90s was having a very 90s romance, it would just be called a normal romance, wouldn’t it??? These are the things I ponder when considering a Colgan book title. She said in (I think) the foreword to Bookshop on the Shore that authors don’t get to pick their titles, and that makes me sad and also scornful of publishing houses or editors or whoever is doing the job so poorly for her.)
BTW, like several of Colgan’s books, the title of this one has pretty much nothing to do with anything. More so than usual here. This wasn’t even released until the 2000s. There are a few TV show references that date it, and I guess what her florist friend is part of is the grunge scene? But there’s nothing very specifically 90s about this, except the lack of real cell phones and the newness of online dating. (But even if there were ... that title still wouldn’t really fit unless it was about someone today having a romance that would fit better in the 90s, right? If someone in the 90s was having a very 90s romance, it would just be called a normal romance, wouldn’t it??? These are the things I ponder when considering a Colgan book title. She said in (I think) the foreword to Bookshop on the Shore that authors don’t get to pick their titles, and that makes me sad and also scornful of publishing houses or editors or whoever is doing the job so poorly for her.)