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The Divorce
by Nicole Strycharz
EQS Rating: 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Rated on a curve)
Headline: Don’t be put off by the title! A GREAT STORY.
REVIEW: I realize that this novel is Book One of a set wherein each novel in the series examines a certain kind of relationship. Each book title defines the status quo in fairly simple terms. I get the theme BUT the title was a real turn off. If I were the queen of the publishing industry, I would’ve titled this book: “I LOVE YOU, I GUESS.” Or maybe, “The Divorce; a Love Story.” I read it because it had come well recommended by someone whose reviews I trust on Goodreads. Although there were a few grammatical distractions or proofreading issues, like “penny’s” instead of “pennies,” “mommy’s” instead of “mommies” and “Carmel” instead of “caramel,” the author does a great job of writing a beautiful love story. Her story telling skills are awesome. She is strong at building relationship and often being funny along the way. I don’t know how it works when a book is going to “e-print” so maybe a computer program is to blame for those errors. If AI really does take over the world one day, I’m sure the grassroots efforts will be led by Autocorrect and Autodictation! Heaven knows those two evil geniuses have sabotaged my text messages often enough. Although there were moments when the story just lagged a little for me, somewhere at the 75% mark became noticeable, overall I just found this refreshing, humorous, sweet, sad, joyful and thought-provoking. There is a point in the story where Chris claims he wants to get up and do the full dance version of Uptown Funk that had me chuckling. This too made me laugh: “‘We need to talk,’ is sign language for, ‘bad shit is flying everywhere.’ I bet before Caesar was stabbed, Brutus said, ‘we need to talk,’ but in Roman. (I think she means Latin.) I have a clear vision in my head, of King Henry VIII telling each wife on the eve of their beheading, ‘hey, so we need to talk.’”
I’m suspicious of superlative reviews that seem to hand out 5 stars willy nilly (or “Willy Billy” as Autocorrect the ipad Overlord would re-name it.) I am particular and somewhat stingy with my stars. The true measure of my love for books is whether I would re-read the book again. Another vote of confidence from me is whether I will buy the book. Both are true in this case. It’s a keeper! I belong to several lending libraries or book membership programs. That’s where I originally found THE DIVORCE. By the half way mark, I had decided to buy the book.
I liked all the cast in this story but it really helped to have Todd and Mandy as besties. Their kids were cute too. I liked that the story had no dastardly villains.
Headline: Don’t be put off by the title! A GREAT STORY.
REVIEW: I realize that this novel is Book One of a set wherein each novel in the series examines a certain kind of relationship. Each book title defines the status quo in fairly simple terms. I get the theme BUT the title was a real turn off. If I were the queen of the publishing industry, I would’ve titled this book: “I LOVE YOU, I GUESS.” Or maybe, “The Divorce; a Love Story.” I read it because it had come well recommended by someone whose reviews I trust on Goodreads. Although there were a few grammatical distractions or proofreading issues, like “penny’s” instead of “pennies,” “mommy’s” instead of “mommies” and “Carmel” instead of “caramel,” the author does a great job of writing a beautiful love story. Her story telling skills are awesome. She is strong at building relationship and often being funny along the way. I don’t know how it works when a book is going to “e-print” so maybe a computer program is to blame for those errors. If AI really does take over the world one day, I’m sure the grassroots efforts will be led by Autocorrect and Autodictation! Heaven knows those two evil geniuses have sabotaged my text messages often enough. Although there were moments when the story just lagged a little for me, somewhere at the 75% mark became noticeable, overall I just found this refreshing, humorous, sweet, sad, joyful and thought-provoking. There is a point in the story where Chris claims he wants to get up and do the full dance version of Uptown Funk that had me chuckling. This too made me laugh: “‘We need to talk,’ is sign language for, ‘bad shit is flying everywhere.’ I bet before Caesar was stabbed, Brutus said, ‘we need to talk,’ but in Roman. (I think she means Latin.) I have a clear vision in my head, of King Henry VIII telling each wife on the eve of their beheading, ‘hey, so we need to talk.’”
I’m suspicious of superlative reviews that seem to hand out 5 stars willy nilly (or “Willy Billy” as Autocorrect the ipad Overlord would re-name it.) I am particular and somewhat stingy with my stars. The true measure of my love for books is whether I would re-read the book again. Another vote of confidence from me is whether I will buy the book. Both are true in this case. It’s a keeper! I belong to several lending libraries or book membership programs. That’s where I originally found THE DIVORCE. By the half way mark, I had decided to buy the book.
I liked all the cast in this story but it really helped to have Todd and Mandy as besties. Their kids were cute too. I liked that the story had no dastardly villains.