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ms_tiahmarie 's review for:
Certain Girls
by Jennifer Weiner
I haven't read a JW in awhile and I picked this up so I could get the free shipping (since shipping was about as much as the book). Then I began to read reviews and my heart sank. Not her best, so many said.
I enjoyed it. I thought it was real. Good in Bed was great - but it was more fairy tale where this is the grit; and yet, there is still hope at the end. The author proved she had guts to not protect her darlings, and it must have hurt to write what she wrote - but she spared it from being average sop and gave the book depth.
I understand that readers who read strictly for escapism may feel betrayed. On the other hand, even Good in Bed displayed a darker side lingering there, and it is what gives JW a star - an author that proves that marketability does not have to be cheesy cheep, like so many books that spat forward as "women's books."
I enjoyed it. I thought it was real. Good in Bed was great - but it was more fairy tale where this is the grit; and yet, there is still hope at the end. The author proved she had guts to not protect her darlings, and it must have hurt to write what she wrote - but she spared it from being average sop and gave the book depth.
I understand that readers who read strictly for escapism may feel betrayed. On the other hand, even Good in Bed displayed a darker side lingering there, and it is what gives JW a star - an author that proves that marketability does not have to be cheesy cheep, like so many books that spat forward as "women's books."