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A review by vhenderson93
Pineapple Girl by Betty Neels
2.0
Talk about conceited! Over-confident! Arrogant!
Just so this isn't a complete negative review, I'll list the good things.
1) His nickname for her, Pineapple girl, was sweet
2) I really liked Mrs. Pringle's character
3) Dramatic rescue from the roof of the boy's school was exciting
4) The mom wasn't a jerk and did end up with a nice guy
This was a decent read until Liske decided to be a complete jerk and corner Eloise, leaving Eloise no chance but to defend herself which led to "mr. perfect" calling Eloise out for being "cruel" and "less than sensible" Dude, what was Eloise SUPPOSED to do??? Endure a lot of nastiness and wait for prince charming to reenter and come to her rescue? Eloise didn't say anything that wasn't true. Once again the arrogant doctor doesn't even give the heroine a chance to give her side of the story. He just automatically decided that she's in the wrong. And why does the number one trait of the girl always have to be SENSIBLE?? Yeah, I get he doesn't want some flighty, fru-fru, thing but why must she always be so sensible?
And why is it in these books that the guy can be a stalker and know every bit of the girl's personal life but if the girl dares ask about the old/current girlfriend (which she has every right to ask the measly question considering he just completely uprooted her life and job without much notice so she could return to Holland to help Mr. Pringle) then she just crossed the line and deserves nothing more than short, snippy, cold remarks. Jerk.
(Hang in there, I haven't even covered the biggest offense yet.)
And after all this...after breaking her heart and making her feel like her best and only choice to live a happy, non-Timon life was to take up a job at a boy's school way out in the middle of nowhere, he finds her, rescues her from the ledge of the roof, and goes to see the headmaster. Turns out he NOT only found a replacement for her (I hate when they make the girl give up her job that she might very well love) but brought along a marriage license AND the parson. After kissing her and saying "I've come to marry you" he says, I've got the license and the parson. We're to be married at 1. Dude! For a moment let's skip over the fact that he didn't give a chance to say NO and look at the facts...
in less than an hour he expects her to be able to get ready for the BIGGEST day of her life. No beautiful wedding dress. No flowers, cake, or MOM for that matter. Then he has the gull to say... and we're eating lunch at such and such a place afterwards. Good grief, why don't you just save her the trouble and schedule the rest of her life for her.
And of course she goes along with it because she's head-over-heels for him. Just like they always do. I swear these books are really getting on my nerves. If my mom didn't love these and we weren't reading them together, this would undoubtedly be the last one I ever pick up. However we have 2 more to go.
Just so this isn't a complete negative review, I'll list the good things.
1) His nickname for her, Pineapple girl, was sweet
2) I really liked Mrs. Pringle's character
3) Dramatic rescue from the roof of the boy's school was exciting
4) The mom wasn't a jerk and did end up with a nice guy
This was a decent read until Liske decided to be a complete jerk and corner Eloise, leaving Eloise no chance but to defend herself which led to "mr. perfect" calling Eloise out for being "cruel" and "less than sensible" Dude, what was Eloise SUPPOSED to do??? Endure a lot of nastiness and wait for prince charming to reenter and come to her rescue? Eloise didn't say anything that wasn't true. Once again the arrogant doctor doesn't even give the heroine a chance to give her side of the story. He just automatically decided that she's in the wrong. And why does the number one trait of the girl always have to be SENSIBLE?? Yeah, I get he doesn't want some flighty, fru-fru, thing but why must she always be so sensible?
And why is it in these books that the guy can be a stalker and know every bit of the girl's personal life but if the girl dares ask about the old/current girlfriend (which she has every right to ask the measly question considering he just completely uprooted her life and job without much notice so she could return to Holland to help Mr. Pringle) then she just crossed the line and deserves nothing more than short, snippy, cold remarks. Jerk.
(Hang in there, I haven't even covered the biggest offense yet.)
And after all this...after breaking her heart and making her feel like her best and only choice to live a happy, non-Timon life was to take up a job at a boy's school way out in the middle of nowhere, he finds her, rescues her from the ledge of the roof, and goes to see the headmaster. Turns out he NOT only found a replacement for her (I hate when they make the girl give up her job that she might very well love) but brought along a marriage license AND the parson. After kissing her and saying "I've come to marry you" he says, I've got the license and the parson. We're to be married at 1. Dude! For a moment let's skip over the fact that he didn't give a chance to say NO and look at the facts...
in less than an hour he expects her to be able to get ready for the BIGGEST day of her life. No beautiful wedding dress. No flowers, cake, or MOM for that matter. Then he has the gull to say... and we're eating lunch at such and such a place afterwards. Good grief, why don't you just save her the trouble and schedule the rest of her life for her.
And of course she goes along with it because she's head-over-heels for him. Just like they always do. I swear these books are really getting on my nerves. If my mom didn't love these and we weren't reading them together, this would undoubtedly be the last one I ever pick up. However we have 2 more to go.