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Not exciting but a good beach or vacation read

Revisado: 05-08-19

Very predictable which lessons the fun but a good beach read. Not painful just nothing unexpected happens.

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NOT WORTH THE TIME

Revisado: 10-04-15

I know this author has a rabid and loyal group of followers. This was my first Kristan Higgins novel. I'm sorry, but I really didn't like this book. I spent most of my reading time gritting my teeth and wanting to knock some sense into most of there characters. Where to start. The two main character are sisters who spend 99% of the novel giving each other advice while refusing to follow it themselves. Jenny insists on staying friends with the ex husband who dumped her and his new wife. She even delivers their new baby. Her boyfriend is a sad, handsome and charming bad bet whose "secret" I could see coming a mile away. Rachael's husband is an insincere slimed cheat who is caught lying over and over again while his wife continues to fight for their marriage. Another of the other main characters is a 40 year old man who lets his mother run his life and verbally and emotionally abuse his 24 year old pink haired food service worker/singer/nutritionists fiancé. Are there any normal people in this town? Is there any single woman who doesn't think like an eighteenth century maiden--that life isn't worth living without a man. Hello--it's 2015. Then in the last two chapters, everyone abruptly changes their mind set and reverses the course they rigidly stayed in the entire novel. I guess the author got bored and needed to wrap it up. Sigh. I did like Evander and his story line. The rest; not so much.

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Better off Watching than Reading!

Revisado: 05-30-15

What is rich and nuanced in the television show comes across in print as the poor, poor, pitiful me whining of a rich, priviledged white girl who got caught. I couldn't help thinking about what was happening to the other women--the one's without private lawyers and rich parents to fight to reduce their culpulbility and sentences. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, Piper. Hope she is splitting her riches with the more interesting women in the book.

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Skip It--Could Have Been So Much Better.

Revisado: 05-30-15

I so wanted to love this novel as much as I loved her first. I just couldn't do it! The narrator does not help, as she has the most annoying vocal tone in the world, and her attempts at "manly" voices are just laughable. While you can forgive a novel for starting off slowly, this one never picks up speed or steam, and the loathsome, whinny characters give you nothing to root for, like, or hang on to while you are waiting for the story to move along. All around disappointing.

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Don't Bother!

Revisado: 10-25-14

I read anything and everything and there has never been a book so horrible I couldn't finish it. Until now. I couldn't do it. This book is horrible. The story is inane and makes little sense. The plot drags--the author seems to think that introducing new characters every chapter is plot development. The stock characters are so badly developed that you don't really care what happens to any of them. Save your money and listen to something--ANYTHING--else.

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Ignore the Premise and Read It!

Revisado: 04-27-12

Don's let the description put you off what is actually a cute story. This book was suggested to me by a friend and I read the description and thought I would hate it--guy makes a bet that he can date a girl. But I actually thought it was a fun read. All of the characters were different than you would expect and the story was deeper than the impression you get by reading the description. I really enjoyed it. My only criticism is that I wished it hadn't ended so abruptly--and the tacked on 5 years later epilogue didn't help or satisfy.

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A well narrated classic!

Revisado: 04-27-12

I am a Wharton fan and this is one of my favorites. The narrator did a good job and really enhanced the story. Kick back with a cup of tea and just let the words wash over you.

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Funny!

Revisado: 04-27-12

Clever, funny and a really good story. I really like this book, although the author seemed to run out of steam in the last 20% of the book. But this modern take on the "scorned wife gets revenge by finally taking her life back" story was really well done. A fun, easy read that you won't regret.

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A Winner!

Revisado: 04-27-12

You will laugh and you will cry, but you will never forget this book or this writer! I have over 800 titles in my library, and this is one of the ten best!

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I really enjoyed this one!

Revisado: 04-27-12

I really enjoyed everything about this one! The narrator was good and the story was fun. The characters were realistic and vivid and the family dynamic was believable and nicely drawn. Not an easy task to knit so many characters together seamlessly and realistically but the author did it and did it well.

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