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Summary: Enjoyable But Too Many Of These Books
Review: I enjoyed this book and found it light, funny entertainment. However, there may now be too many of this "Bridget Jones" or "Lucy Sullivan" type book in the marketplace. They all feature a single heroine who lives and works in London. She navigates the rocky shoals of her love and career lives with an assortment of oddball characters. This novel has many charms but all of these books do. Dominic, the fiancé, literally leaves Minty, the heroine, at the altar in front of 280 wedding guests. This is a huge blow to her self-esteem and the remainder of the book details her recovery. In that process, she also meets the hero and gets a leg up on her career in talk radio. Secondary characters are very funny. There is her cousin, Amber, who does not ever need to take assertiveness training but who goes for it with Minty. Minty's charity-addicted fundraising mother embraces every weird cause that exists. Her news anchor at work, Melinda, can't pronounce her "r"s but finds her true calling in an early morning show for insomniacs where she reviles the guests. Plus there's an obnoxious interviewee who lauds herself as mother and wife for the radio show, while dumping on all other women not married and with children. The comedic possibilities with Dominic, an insurance salesman solely focused on his upscale career and lifestyle, could have been more fully exploited. The funniest scene in the book is his backing out of the wedding by telling the minister he thinks "not" when he asks him if he will take Minty as his bride. Without any explanation, he then turns, marches down the aisle, alone, and leaves the church.
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Summary: Overall the book is..
Review: For the most part, I really enjoyed this book. It was the smartest piece of chick-lit I've read and I liked the story and the character. Both were consistent throughout the book.My problems were small ones. First off, although I enjoyed the character and felt she was pretty realistic and well-rounded (and she could cook!), I was seriously annoyed that she allowed herself to be walked all over by everyone. She realizes that this is her problem and even takes a class for it, but still allows her cousin to stay with her for months without paying rent or bills or anything and even allows her cousin to change her furniture around and take her bedroom. I don't know anyone who would just allow herself to be stomped on like that and past wanting the character to succeed, I wanted to knock some spine into her. I also felt that the book was a bit too long. Cut out about one hundred pages (and the mom-charity debacle and peripheral-characters-getting-theirs subplots) and it would have been just about perfect. She could also have cut out about 90% of the "mint" puns. "New Mint" as a way to show that Minty's changing is only clever once. Overall, though, I strongly recommend this. It's more drama than comedy, but it's still funny and witty and thoroughly enjoyable. Definitely one of the top tier of the genre.
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Summary: An easy fun read
Review: Well, I saw the good reviews for this book so I went ahead and bought it. What a mistake. I really forced myself through the first 75 pages. It was boring, the main character was weak (in fact ALL the characters were weak), and I'm sick of reading about weddings. I continued on with the next 50 pages or so, which were really really dull. The scenes about her work place are especially dragging. The whole book was typical, nothing original. You've got a heartbroken girl with a bad job, the asortment of nice guys she doesn't see, the quirky bestfriend/relative, blah, blah, blah. Nothing about this book made me want to keep reading, so I didn't. I flipped through the rest of the book, read the end, and was glad I didn't bother with the whole thing. If you're like me, and like a funny story with endearing characters you can relate to, skip this one because ...
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Summary: Much better than Tiffany
Review: I read Minty first(before her other book "The Trials of Tiffany Trott"), glad that I did or I probably wouldn't have read it. Was fun and exciting, highly recommend!
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