Meghan (tennisfan5) reviewed on 10/1/2014 + 42 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

Yuck. That's really how I felt about this book(I will do my nest to review with no spoilers). I enjoyed the first 80 or so pages (the ones before she left New York), but after that this book really fell flat. I felt as if this could have been a cute, if some what done, book. But Ms. Potter just made the characters so unlikeable (to me at least). The best friend Stella was so shallow that I really found noting to like about her except her marriage. The journalist, Spike, sounded nothing like an ideal man. I remember in the book he was at first described as having a "beer stomach" and later "love handles" with corduroy patched jacket and smoking a ton. He kept a string a French girlfriends and fighting with them because it was easier than having a real "feeling" relationship. Now later in the book it almost seems Potter decides to backtrack and make him better. She never mentions his smoking again. He starts to rescue the main character and he tells of how he & his family were wronged and he fixed it. I just had so many problems with this character. Now, the main character Emily. She was likable enough, but she seemed so stupid. What does "crickey" mean, what is topshop, maybe I can just move this barrier in a museum and sit down at a 200 year old desk. I just felt that she was too dumb, but then we were also supposed to believe she was a "strong, independent woman". She didn't really seem like she could be both to me. Overall very disappointing book!

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