My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
I was actually quite surprised. I have read some of this authors writings before and found myself knowing the end before I finished the first chapter. But this one had decent character depth and plot outline. I was scared with them, laughed with them, and even cried with them. Great clean wholesome read!
I have had this book since December and I have finally completed it!
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
It took me a while to read this book, at no fault of the books. The beginning took awhile to get through, after about the first couple of chapters (the end of the wedding) things start to pick up take place and get interesting. It has great, witty, funny, and sometimes downright so stupid it's funny humor. It is a great summertime read and I will read it again in a few years from now.
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My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the first book by Keyes that I have read. I enjoyed her writing style. She is very to the point and real. This was a more serious book, a little bit of humor but I throughly enjoyed it.
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To be honest when I first started reading this book I really wasn't into it. I thought it was going to be a poorly written book about the single life as a "old" member of the church and student of BYU. So I started it with a bad attitude and in a way was just reading it to read it. As I started to get approxamatly halfway through I realized this is a pretty good book. It was very cleverly written, character depth was great, and the plot was wonderful. I would recommend this book to everyone for a fun light read.
Read more...I have two feelings on this book. And they are very different.
1. I loved the plot and the story line, the excitement was there. I throughly enjoyed the read from beginning until the almost end. The action was there, the character depth I thought was done pretty well, I do believe that it could have been done a bit better for some of the characters. I would have liked Susan to have more depth and I would've liked Nathan Hale to have more of a likeable personality at the beginning, I wasn't too fond of how that all played out.
2. I really was upset with the whole "underlying" plot of Commander Strathmore. I won't ruin it for those who haven't read it but it was so frustrating!
Sorry that this review isn't as long as the others in the past I have been a bit busy. The next ones to follow shall be longer.
Ever since I picked up "Confessions of a Shopaholic" when it first came out, Sophie Kinsella has been an author that I really enjoy reading. Her heroine Becky Bloomwood (now Brandon) was so much fun to read about with her constant shopping and worries and obsession over stupid things. I enjoyed the different take that this book had over her past others of, 'What will happen to Beckys spending now, how will she manage to get out of debt, will Luke find out that she spent all the money, but "Shopaholic and Baby" has something different to give.
In this installment of the series Becky isn't obsessing over some stupid little thing and making a mountain out of a molehill. The crisis in "Shopaholic and Baby" is that Becky's must-see celebrity OBGYN, Venetia Carter is Luke's ex-girlfriend, and she believes that Luke might be cheating on her with the doctor. And she has good reasons to think so. Any woman in her position would think so. Because she's having these worries, this total justified panic about secret phone texts in Latin and Luke not being where he says he is when he goes out alone, when she's very pregnant, it's not funny, it's sad and miserable. You can really feel Becky's pain and panic about Luke's possible infidelity and unlike the other books, where she would worry about her wedding or something, it's not funny. Sophie really does a great job of bringing your emotions into the book and that is something that I enjoy. Don't get me wrong there are still plenty of "Becky" moments to keep you laughing throughout the book.
An enjoyable rainy day read, as long as you read the other ones first.
As the second (sequel) to Emily Giffin's Something Borrowed I was equally drawn into this novel as well. Something Blue is an interesting writing approach to being a counterpart. Something Blue takes off from essentially where Something Borrowed left off but instead with another person as the main character. Seeing the story through Darcy's eyes definitely gave it a new spin - I unexpectedly took a liking to Darcy, especially since at the beginning of the book I was feeling as though I don't want to read this through her point of view. But I quickly got caught up in the book and seeing it from her side... I guess it is true, although cliche, that every story has at least two sides. I fell in love with yet more warm and realistically likable characters in this novel.
The story kicks in when Darcy visits an old friend, Ethan, in London. At first she’s the same old girl who drinks alcohol despite being pregnant, spends all of her money on designer clothes that won’t fit in two months time and bullies the introverted Ethan into letting her stay longer.
Of course, this isn’t much of a story so far, and the crux of this book is seeing how Darcy changes and develops into an all-round more lovable person. Her story is one of sadness that ultimately becomes hope.
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