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louamy999 's review for:
Watermelon
by Marian Keyes
Oh gosh what is there to say. True I did finish it all in 24 hours , and I didn’t do much of the skim reading seen mentioned in other comments. Did I enjoy it? At times yes, I enjoyed the sisters’ relationships. Everything else? Erm not so much. I loved Lucy Sullivan is getting married which made me read this one on recommendation of my mother. Maybe it’s because I’m a 20 year old with no kids and no annoying blameful husband which explains why I couldn’t relate to Claire’s whining. But I have faced heartbreak and I can relate so well to the feeling of ‘why her? What does she have i don’t?’ But unfortunately Claire really is the biggest wet wipe I’ve read about in fiction; spending most of the book treating her daughter as no more than a doll who sometimes cries, and moaning and whining. It doesn’t help the characters bar Claire are very thinly characterised - We never meet Denise or even have Claire have an interaction with her, and Adam just bores me - there’s virtually nothing sincere or romantic in him and while I can do with being spared of ten pages of sexual activity and words to describe biceps, his constant anger with Claire no more persuaded me they’d make a good couple than getting back with James would. It was somewhat of a pleasantry when she finally comes to her senses, but also very lacklustre and not as satisfying as in other novels of the genre. I’m disappointed , but will probably read Rachel’s Holiday because I love disappointment.