Snap Happy

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Summary: Move over Jilly Cooper!!
Review: I have been fortunate enoungh to find all her books and I can't say that I have any particularly favourite one. They are all wonderful for long summer days and long winter evenings. Hurry up with the next one!!

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Summary: A Good Read
Review: I really liked this book and I like Fiona Walker's style, however it was not as good as French Relations and Well Groomed. I liked the main characters and even though the ending was predictable from the first chapter, I still enjoyed the journey.

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Summary: great summer reading
Review: I think Fiona Walker has the ability to be able to write such reality and highlight the funny side of everyday living and relationships! I totally fell in love with the guy in this book as our heroine did! I have read other books by Ms Walker (Kiss Chase) and loved them all equally! I would reacommend this to anyone who wants to laugh alot and get totally hooked!

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Summary: I loved it
Review: I tried to read this book, but found it so not funny, lacking in an interesting plot and I couldn't identify or even like any of the characters. I forced myself to continue reading as I hate to leave a book unread, and after taking a while to get into it in the hope that it would get better, I couldn't continue reading and gave up. There was no hook in the beginning either, and after 5 chapters, I still couldn't see where it was going or what the point of continuing to read was. I ususally like light and humerous books, but this wasn't one of them.

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Summary: One for the beach
Review: No - she's not drop dead gorgeous, figure-to-die-for and in a high powered career. Neither is he. Thoroughly believable characters in a funny, light, bubbly read. The only real criticism I have is of her constant cracking of usually NOT funny jokes - sorry, TOO much !

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Summary: My Favorite Author!!!
Review: Ok, well one of them anyway. (come on, asking a booklover who her favorite author is compares to asking a mother which is her favorite child...)

Snap Happy was the first Fiona Walker book I read, and I paid a fortune for it at amazon.co.uk! But it was well worth the price. Juno is hilarious. I love the fact that she is a stand up comedian. Most chick lit novels are based on women who work in advertising or publishing. She is a unique character and very loveable. I am so glad to see that Fiona Walker books are available in the us now! Now you can all bask in Ms. Walker's glory!

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Summary: Hilarious and recognizable. Highly recommended!
Review: Snap Happy is the first book written by Walker I've read. I was looking for something entertaining and light-to-digest.. and found everything I was looking for. Juno is not the perfect, drop-dead gorgeous woman (that's her friend Lydia) that stars in a typical Jackie Collins book, but she's very real and has her weaknesses (just like you and me!) Jay is to drool over, and I have to say that Walker has quite twisted the plot nicely (the woman that does not let him love her). I must've given everyone around me the intention that I'd gone mad, but I just couldn't help laughing all through the book. The many misunderstandings are well done!

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Summary: You want to smile...chuckle....giggle ....laugh out loud.!
Review: Snap Happy was my first Fiona Walker and I fell for her style. Her charakters are in the beginning rough and intimitating even. Well like US they have failures and charakterflaws. By and by, like if you would meet a person in the real world, you gather up the pieces of information to find a loveable, generous and selfironic woman ..Juno. A character that breaths, screams, loves and really takes you along with her and believe me I really had to laugh out loud. Not at her but with her. Having read now all her books this remains my favorite .. (Why the title was altered in the german translation from snap happy to "a turtle named Uboat" stays unbelievable for me... who would buy a book with this title? )

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Summary: Great tale - not her best, though.
Review: The story started out slowly, and with enough bad puns that I was starting to worry it would be like Wendy Holden's dreadful book "Bad Heir Day." But then suddenly, I became immersed in this incredibly romantic story.

Juno, the protaganist, is a curvy amateur comic who on her 30th birthday, in a fit of despair over her love life, seduces her gorgeous new flat-mate, Jay. Jay is moody and secretive, and he and Juno are as explosive together out of bed as they are in it. Everything they say to one another is misunderstood, and although both are pining away for the other, they are so wrenched apart by their misunderstandings, it doesn't seem as though they will ever be able to get it together. This has that wonderful quality that only the best romantic yarns have -- so many ups and downs, that you find yourself reading late into the night, hoping that the heroine and her hero will somehow against all odds find their way back to each other's arms.

A lovely, romantic book.