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Review Date: 12/29/2012
Entertaining chick-lit, as all of Crusie's books are. You'll laugh and be eager to know what happens next, but this book won't change your life.
Review Date: 3/25/2016
I found the main character, Stella, to be very naive and unlikeable even before the traumatic incident. Her rationalizations (both before and after the incident) are absurd, and her obsessions with Max along with her need to impress him made her seem mentally ill from the start. I couldn't stand her and had a hard time caring what happened to her. Put her out of her misery already! Nothing in the book was surprising, but for the fact that the "young girl" that showed up at her house was an almost grown teenager that rivaled Stella in her level of "pathetic-ness." It's hard to believe this book was written by a psychologist.
Review Date: 11/5/2017
I could not get any of the recipes in this book to turn out. Not even close.
Review Date: 12/29/2012
This story is fairly predictable. Jiselle is a naive woman that marries an attractive man looking for a caregiver for his children. I imagine all readers can see this from the start. I found myself alternately feeling sorry for her and wanting to thump her in the head for being so stupid. The Phoenix flu permanently separates Jiselle from her husband, and leaves her as the only caregiver to his spoiled children. All around, a pretty boring story that I had to force myself to finish.
Review Date: 9/1/2016
*SPOILER*
Durrant has done exactly what an author should do if she never wants a reader to pick up another of her novels. The first 280 pages are lies. She found a body, it's tormenting her, she has no idea who could have done such a thing, there's a killer on the loose, blah blah blah. On page 281, we find out it was actually her all along. The story could have been woven so much better. More intricately. More smoothly. The abrupt admission on page 281 just made me want to throw the book down... it ruined the whole story for me.
Durrant has done exactly what an author should do if she never wants a reader to pick up another of her novels. The first 280 pages are lies. She found a body, it's tormenting her, she has no idea who could have done such a thing, there's a killer on the loose, blah blah blah. On page 281, we find out it was actually her all along. The story could have been woven so much better. More intricately. More smoothly. The abrupt admission on page 281 just made me want to throw the book down... it ruined the whole story for me.
Review Date: 1/12/2020
Helpful Score: 1
This was awful. Reviews claimed it was a page turner with an unpredictable ending. This is basically one of those novels about a crazy person where an entire story is told and then the "twist" is that the person is crazy and made up the whole thing. Talentless drivel and a waste of the paper it's printed on.
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