Helpful Score: 5
This is a definite "chick-lit" book, light reading and fairly predictable. Three friends buy a run-down mansion with dreams of flipping it for a profit, then (surprise!) it becomes a money pit. The book was reasonably entertaining, but the characters were under-developed. They came off as so shallow and emotionally immature, I found it hard to care about them. One of the sub-plots suggests the house is haunted, but as the real reason for unexpected phenomenon is revealed, I found it so unrealistic as to be ridiculous.
If your expectations are modest (after waiting nearly a year for this book, mine were probably too high), you may enjoy this book for what it is.
If your expectations are modest (after waiting nearly a year for this book, mine were probably too high), you may enjoy this book for what it is.
SALLY W. (thameslink) -
Helpful Score: 4
Sweet, if somewhat fluffy, tale -- along the lines of "The Ladies of Covington" only the characters are in their fifties. Amusing, quick read and I am looking forward to the sequel.
Carol N. (carolpwv) - , reviewed A Year on Ladybug Farm (Ladybug Farm, Bk 1) on + 47 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
This is an excellent "Chick Lit" book. Three women, with their husbands gone, their families grown and their future ahead of them, decide to buy a run down mansion on a farm. They take on home improvement projects and encounter disaster after disaster. They question their decision but sometimes the best things can happen when everything goes wrong. I look forward to reading the second installment, "At Home on Ladybug Farm".
Just finished a year on ladybug farm and can't wait to read the two other books in this trilogy! Although I'm in my early 20's and the women in this book are in there late 50's! I bonded with the characters and a woman is a woman no matter what age you are! I found this book to be funny, charming, and heartbreaking at times. You will walk away from this book with a new outlook on friendship!
Janice P. (jannymarie) -
Helpful Score: 2
This book is a very entertaining. A page turner hard to put down. There is life yet to be embarked upon after the children are grown, death, divorce and retirement.
Helpful Score: 2
Funny book about three single middle-aged women who buy a farm. By book's end they have "adopted" a herd of sheep, a sheep dog, and an orphaned 16 year-old, gone through all kinds of trials, tribulations, and money, but have decided they are happier than they've ever been and want to stay put. I loved it!
