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It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to read this (both right to left in pages and in panels). It was cute and I've already checked out the next one from the library but I'm interested to see if there's any acknowledgment that this is m/m or if they're both just never going to address why Minegishi likes to feed Otsu and why Otsu gets flustered by Minegishi.
this was awful. I read it only because I wanted to revisit Dubai but this could have been set anywhere, with one mention of the burj khalifa and a sandstorm out in the desert. More than it not really highlighting dubai, I realized I don't like romances where both characters are fighting with each other the entire time. Sometimes divorce is ok! You don't always have to make it work! The H/h were both really cold to each other and I wasn't convinced by their love story even at the end.
Not bad, not great. About exactly what's expected from a chick lit roman-a-clef, no surprises. I would like to know who Sasha is supposed to be and how close Cricket's Devil Wears Prada experience aligns to deux's actual background.
Exceedingly silly.
I liked this house party storyline more than some of the other storylines Raybourn has done in the past. Finally getting somewhere with Stoker!
A reverse Lolita across the southern edge of the U.S. in pursuit of money, the …
With Less I wasn't sure I liked it until I got to the end. This one, I'm still not sure I liked it, even after finishing. I think it didn't capture the same magic Less did, which I guess is fine, but sort of disappointing when Less won the pulitzer and this was just ok.
I was about 80% done with the book when I realized the author was the same person who wrote The Hating Game which I ultimately liked but had a lot of problems with the author's writing style. So when I realized it was the same person, the issues I was having with the writing style in this book made sense. The book itself is fine, I see a fair amount of other people wrote reviews complaining about the ethics of creating/reanimating a person specifically to love you. I didn't have any issues with this because it's fiction. I don't need it to be ethically correct. My issue is Sally Thorne never gives any setting information in her books. She does the barest minimum to set the scene and I find it distracting that I don't know what anything looks like.
This was the longest 272 pages I have read in a long time. How did this woman write such a boring book? I think I can see how it probably wasn't meant to be boring, but it sure was for me. Fully agree with all the other reviewers that there were too many characters and too hard to keep who was who straight. I know it's a debut book but I'd have to really know any future book is better than this to waste time on this author again.
I don't particularly care about Kelly Ripa - I used to watch All My Children when she and Mark were on it, so I've always liked her but I don't really pay attention to her life outside of what makes it to the tabloids. Before this came out, I happened to watch an interview with her where she mentioned "telling the stories that needed to be told," which I took to mean spilling some tea. Sadly this book was tea-less. I would have really liked a short story about how she was blindsided by Michael Strahan's departure since that was all over the news but instead we got a short story about how weird Regis was.
I know this wasn't a memoir and she doesn't claim that it's a memoir, but having it just be short stories, made it seem disjointed, especially because she didn't always tell the stories in …
I don't particularly care about Kelly Ripa - I used to watch All My Children when she and Mark were on it, so I've always liked her but I don't really pay attention to her life outside of what makes it to the tabloids. Before this came out, I happened to watch an interview with her where she mentioned "telling the stories that needed to be told," which I took to mean spilling some tea. Sadly this book was tea-less. I would have really liked a short story about how she was blindsided by Michael Strahan's departure since that was all over the news but instead we got a short story about how weird Regis was.
I know this wasn't a memoir and she doesn't claim that it's a memoir, but having it just be short stories, made it seem disjointed, especially because she didn't always tell the stories in chronological order so it was hard to keep track of what was going on. Perhaps the biggest issue for me is that I don't see what the point was for her writing this book. I think if you ask her, it was becoming an empty-nester, but lots of people become empty-nesters without writing books. Without it being a memoir, just a collection of short stories, that don't even center around a particular theme, the book just seems sort of pointless or the ultimate vanity project.
She credits Andy Cohen in the acknowledgements section for getting her to take up journaling, and having read all three of his journal-style books (though the first one was more of a traditional memoir), I prefer his style better.
The ending of this was a letdown and confusing.
