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4 1/2 stars

Reviewed in Australia on 12 September 2019

I don’t think I’ve reviewed any of Mhairi McFarlane’s books before now, but I’ve read them all. And what’s more I’ve loved them all. I do get a little caught up in the “conversation” that would be the internal dialogue as well as the actual dialogue, I think it’s because I think and talk Australian and the author and characters are from the British Isles and speak British/Irish but it’s also the snark and wit that these fictional characters use to converse with each other. And they’re just so damn likeable! Fab story!

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Gordon Ross

Yawn

Reviewed in Australia on 12 December 2021

Just could not connect with this one, although writing fluent. Maybe I am the wrong age group, gender or bored by relationships!

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Eunice whittle

book lover

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2019

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so sorry usually love her writing .with determination kept with it hoping it would captivate .very dissapointed boring and lots of fillers just to make a book.suppose we all have off days.

Mrs O

It’s a struggle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2019

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My god I’m struggling, I can usually devour a good book in a couple of days, several weeks later I’m plodding .... just not likeable ....

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Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2019

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Had funny bits but definitely not hilarious and it went into too much detail about the ex-boyfriend for no real reason and end was as if author ran out of ideas of how to finish. Would not recommend.

Penny

Predictable and over-long.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 April 2019

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On and on and on it goes until it finally reaches its inevitable conclusion.

Characters talk and naval gaze (endlessly) in an entirely unrealistic manner.

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Diane Chambers

Not LOL

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 February 2020

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Book was rated as 'Hilarious' not so...

Vielleserin

sorry, but no

Reviewed in Germany on 8 April 2019

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Ich wollte hier eigentlich keine Rezension schreiben, weil das Buch tatsächlich nicht so grauenvoll ist wie vieles andere an englischsprachiger Literatur im Netz, und weil es mich auf der anderen Seite ziemlich kalt gelassen hat. Allerdings habe ich das Buch gekauft, weil mir die Leseprobe gefiel und ich die Rezensionen der anderen hier gelesen habe - und tja, Fehler. es war sein Geld leider nicht wert. Deshalb, hier meine Meinung.

Zunächst - und das ist absolute Geschmackssache - muss einem klar sein, ein Großteil dieses Buches ist in britischem Slang geschrieben. Wenn man damit nicht vertraut ist, und auch nicht so sehr mit der britischen Kultur, wird man vieles einfach nicht verstehen. Das ist an und für sich natürlich kein Minus! Man muss sich nur darüber klar sein - dieses Buch hat einen anderen kulturellen Hintergrund als amerikanische Bücher.

Aber das würde mich nicht zu einer schlechten Bewertung bringen, im Gegenteil, ich mag vieles am britischen Stil. Was mich zu der schlechten Bewertung bringt: Das Buch hält nicht, was es verspricht. Es ist exrem selten wirklich witzig (auch wieder Geschmackssache, klar), und das einzige Mal, dass ich lachen musste, was, als Kitty ihren Namen buchstabiert (nicht wegen der Worte, die sie dafür benutzt, sondern wegen ihrer panischen Reaktion :-)). Ansonsten fand ich weder die Heldin besonders witzig, noch die Situationen, und schon gar nicht ihre literarischen Ergüsse. Dass sie durchaus warmherzig ist, klang zwar immer mal wieder durch, aber meistens wirkte sie eben doch leider nur wie der typische Airhead, der gerne anspruchsvoll wäre.
Dazu kommt: der Held. In der Leseprobe war er großartig - interessant geschrieben, verletzlich und dennoch spannend. Blöderweise bekommt er danach fast gar keine Auftritte mehr, wo er wirklich was zu tun oder zu sagen hätte. Stattdessen werden uns mehrere Saufabenden mit dem Mädelsclub präsentiert, die ich teilweise nur noch überblättert habe (eines der Mädels ist ein Kerl, ja, und dazu noch hetero, aber er hätte genauso gut schwul sein können). Auch die gestörte Familie geht einem ziemlich auf den Geist. Dazu noch der seltsame Ex-Freund - wo hier wie lustige, warmherzige und großartige Romcom sein soll, die der Buchtitel verspricht, ist mir leider ein Rätsel. Es ist ein halbherziger Versuch, Wuthering Heights mit netteren Hauptcharakteren aufzuführen, aber ertrinkt in den Belanglosigkeiten eines unspannenden Großstadtlebens.
Und deshalb, zwei Sterne. Eine für die Leseprobe, eine für den Stil, der tatsächlich mal einer ist, den man lesen kann, ohne sich fremdschämen zu müssen.
Trotzdem tut's mir leid ums Geld.

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Sarah

Usually love her books...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2019

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... but couldn't even finish this one. Had some funny moments but nowhere near the same level as her other books.

helenknight7

Sadly not the best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 February 2020

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Found This book really
Hard to get in to. Poor story line. I am going to keep trying.

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Don't really see the funny side :/

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2019

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The storyline felt a bit clunky and did not find it funny. I usually like Amazon recommendations but this one was not for me.

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Elizabeth Fiorito

Can we be done with the loser heroine trope?

Reviewed in the United States on 20 June 2020

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I'm giving this book two stars instead of one because the beginning is genius. It made me buy the book and look forward to curling up on a couch and reading the whole thing in a couple of hours. Hilarious, well-developed, engaging characters, romantic. Oh the bait and switch -- how cruel you are! In the very next chapter (chapter 2?) this book nosedives into the most heinous slog of self-whining I've ever experienced. Worse, it succumbs to the worst, most tired, outdated cliches in the rom com genre.

Namely, single woman at thirty who is a complete and utter screw up in everything, insists she's fat and ugly (while everyone in the book fawns over how freaking gorgeous she is -- really? *batting eyelashes* me?), has no life ambition because she never got married, is criticized by a family of monsters because she's so old and unmarried, hates her sister who is married to a slime ball but therefore superior because she is married, can't be competent at anything she does because something bad happened to her once and, my favorite, has to be RESCUED in a bar by the moody love interest (I guess. By page 185 love should be happening and it really wasn't) because of a stripper attack. Because a grown woman of 30 couldn't pick up the phone, call the cops and tell that lurch to scram. Oh no. She trembles, she faints.

Sorry. Weak, pathetic, non assertive heroines who complain about how old they are at thirty or mourn their singleness and allow others to do the same went out out with the 90's. I'm sure this girl still exists somewhere. I don't want to read about her.

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