Jessica H. (jessjoy) reviewed on 5/21/2011 + 34 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

I first want to say that I adores Wickham! I have read all of her Kinsella books and adored them! The Shopaholic series wasn't my favorites that she's done, but I still enjoyed them. I've also read a good big of her Wickham books, I'm lacking three, I believe. This was the only book that I didn't like. It just didn't really make me smile, didn't make me feel any emotion except, What the crap was she thinking? From the beginning of the book you know that it's a book about two ex's who are thrown together on holiday. I knew I wasn't going to like it when I realized that both had families of their own, with small children. So, for a chick lit book it just didn't feel right. I don't mind reading heavier stuff, but I want my chick lit, to be funny, uplifting a little naughty. The premise just didn't feel right. I don't believe that it was a full circle story. There were some ok moments, thank God for the nanny that was hired because there would have been absolutely zilch comic highlights to the story. It wasn't a humorous tale at all. It wasn't what I expect to read from Wickham. Perhaps with the name change she wants to delve deeper into the human psyche, but it lacks on both being serious enough to be a "novel", but is too heavy to be chick lit. I think she needs to not try so hard to be literary and just enjoy mass appeal. There's a reason that the masses love it :)

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