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Summary: Recommended Summer Reading ......
Review: ....if you have nothing better to do. The characters were kind of cute and their settings were probably right on-- but the story as it unfolded, had its ups and downs. I found myself eager for this long read to end. It was not a book you simply could not put down. I put it down and walked away for several days and did not miss the story or the characters at all. But-- when you had time to fill, it was just "ok." I think I bought it because the book jacket had a comment from "Rosamund Pilcher" (one of my favorite authors). So-- there you have it-- if you need to grab a book to fill in some summer hours-- and you've read all the other good reads of the summer-- go for it-- but I would probably have gotten it at the library instead of springing for the full price.
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Summary: No surprise here
Review: After the introduction of the three main characters and a few chapters into the book, if you could not figure out how it would end, you have certainly never read a book before! The book was too predictable. It did hold my interest and I did read it to the end, but I like books where the ending is a little more of a surprise. Cathy Kelly is no maeve Binchy!
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Summary: No surprise here
Review: After the introduction of the three main characters and a few chapters into the book, if you could not figure out how it would end, you have certainly never read a book before! The book was too predictable. It did hold my interest and I did read it to the end, but I like books where the ending is a little more of a surprise. Cathy Kelly is no maeve Binchy!
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Summary: Kelly does it well!
Review: Author Cathy Kelly gives us three very distinctive women in this book. They all have their personal ups and downs and all are in need of a good friend/confidante. How fortunate that this is just what they find on a vacation in Egypt. They bond in the blistering Egyptian heat and, since they all live fairly near one another, continue the friendship once they are back in Dublin.Hannah is the insecure career girl who has been dumped by her boyfriend of ten years. Can a career replace her need for romance? Will one-night stands be enough to satisfy? Can the handsome actor who fancies her provide lasting happiness? Emma is a pathetic woman who even though married is being emotionally and verbally abused by her parents. When the tables are turned and a catastrophic illness causes them to need her, will she be there? Can she ever face the fears she has about not being able to conceive a child? Leonie is the flamboyant mother of three teens who touched me the most. She has to face flying to America to see her ex-husband marry the perfect woman while she herself is reduced to looking for love in the personal ads column. Share her joy and sorrow as each of these dates leads to even more problems. Will Leonie be able to referee life at home and still find satisfaction for herself? And just who is that mysterious neighbor who walks his two dogs? There's plenty of heart-touching situations in this one as three grown women find the courage to confront life's problems----the everyday ones and the major ones. After all, with friends like these, you know that hope and happiness is just around the corner.
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Summary: Three Irish Girls Find Friendship and Romance
Review: Author Cathy Kelly gives us three very distinctive women in this book. They all have their personal ups and downs and all are in need of a good friend/confidante. How fortunate that this is just what they find on a vacation in Egypt. They bond in the blistering Egyptian heat and, since they all live fairly near one another, continue the friendship once they are back in Dublin. Hannah is the insecure career girl who has been dumped by her boyfriend of ten years. Can a career replace her need for romance? Will one-night stands be enough to satisfy? Can the handsome actor who fancies her provide lasting happiness? Emma is a pathetic woman who even though married is being emotionally and verbally abused by her parents. When the tables are turned and a catastrophic illness causes them to need her, will she be there? Can she ever face the fears she has about not being able to conceive a child? Leonie is the flamboyant mother of three teens who touched me the most. She has to face flying to America to see her ex-husband marry the perfect woman while she herself is reduced to looking for love in the personal ads column. Share her joy and sorrow as each of these dates leads to even more problems. Will Leonie be able to referee life at home and still find satisfaction for herself? And just who is that mysterious neighbor who walks his two dogs? There's plenty of heart-touching situations in this one as three grown women find the courage to confront life's problems----the everyday ones and the major ones. After all, with friends like these, you know that hope and happiness is just around the corner.
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Summary: Engaging!
Review: Hannah, Leonie and Emma stole my heart from the first pages of this wonderful book. I was immediately drawn into their lives, felt their pain, laughed alongside each of them and cheered them on to the finish. A chance meeting on an Eygptian vacation leads these three women into the world of true friendship. An unlikely threesome from the beginning, each woman discovers a deep and compassionate sisterhood that gives each of them the strength to deal with their own lives on a deeper level. This is my first Cathy Kelly book. I was very impressed by the depth of the character development and the insight that Ms. Kelly exhibits in her writing. I will be checking my book store for more of this author. Bravo!
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Summary: Engaging!
Review: Hannah, Leonie and Emma stole my heart from the first pages of this wonderful book. I was immediately drawn into their lives, felt their pain, laughed alongside each of them and cheered them on to the finish. A chance meeting on an Eygptian vacation leads these three women into the world of true friendship. An unlikely threesome from the beginning, each woman discovers a deep and compassionate sisterhood that gives each of them the strength to deal with their own lives on a deeper level. This is my first Cathy Kelly book. I was very impressed by the depth of the character development and the insight that Ms. Kelly exhibits in her writing. I will be checking my book store for more of this author. Bravo!
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Summary: Enjoyable!
Review: I liked this novel quite a bit. It was a satisfying substitute while I wait for the next Maeve Binchy book! It is similar to Binchy's expanisve style with many characters and storeylines. It centers around 3 Irish women who meet on holiday in Egyot and follows them home to share their families/ careers/ romances. It is one of those books that you can very easily lose yourself in! Lots of fun, if somewhat predictable.
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Summary: Refreshing and Realistically Sentimental
Review: I loved this book! I think Kelly did an excellent job of giving a dose of the good and bad side of reality. I laughed and I cried as these three women battled issues that are very real to myself as a woman as well as to women close to me. Someone Like You is a refreshingly hopeful masterpiece, not only for the hopeless romantic but for any woman who seeks to find herself and her happiness amidst this crazy world. Again, I absolutely loved it!
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Summary: Kelly does it well!
Review: I was bought this as a present and as I hadn't read a Cathy Kelly book before I was dubious before reading it.... BUT I found it was great. It was an contemporary novel but still contained the old ingredients of a romance.
The characters, Hannah,Leonie and Emma were all so different and so real to me that I felt the same as they did. I identified with all the characters, my favourite been Hannah.
Once I had begun this book, I simply couldn't put it down and I felt sad for it end.
I would definately recommend this book to anyone, and I would recommend Cathy Kelly, the narrative technique is brilliant and would read another of her novels.
All in all a fantastic feel good read.
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