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Summary: Marriage-in a year?
Review: That is the question for Lucy Sullivan, after a fortune teller reveals that she will meet and marry her dream-guy within a year. The fortune-telling opens the story, and then it continues telling Lucy's tale of ups and downs, her dreams, her search for Mr. Right. It has all been written before. The feisty room mate, the naive room mate, the gay-friend, the confused but cute heroine and the search for love. Not necessarily a bad thing to write a book about, but Lucy and the other characters never seem to come alive in a believable way. There are too many pages, and the story does not have enough 'meat' to be so long. It was, all in all, a disappointing read from an author I have enjoyed a lot before.
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Summary: Whitty therapy
Review: This one hit a note. Marian Keyes describes alcohol addiction, co-dependency and depression without being nasty about the victim. Very good non-patronising reading!
From an ex co-dependent.
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Summary: Light - Hearted Fun
Review: Twenty-six year old self-pitying Lucy Sullivan will captue your heart and make you laugh in Marian Keyes' "Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married". Though the book is not serious or deep, it is light-hearted fun for women everywhere.Meet Lucy, who wallows in a dead-end job and lack of self-confidence. One night, she and three of her co-workers, the rich yet boring Hetty, the gigantic Meredia, and the laid-back sharp-tongued Megan, travel to the outskirts of London to have their tarot cards read. When Mrs. Nolan predicts that Lucy will be married within eighteen months, she sets out on a journey to find the perfect man, and learn a little bit about herself along the way. Throughout the book, Lucy fights to keep her head held high despite disastrous relationships, dealing with her alcoholic father, arguing with her self-confident roommates, and losing touch with her best friend. But when Lucy finally realizes she's met the love of her life, you will feel the joy and amazement with her, and will be left wanting more.
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Summary: Not what I expected.
Review: When I buy a paperback book with a brightly colored cover and a title like: "Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married", this is what I expect: a lighthearted comedy about a slightly shallow, single, city-dwelling, young woman and her love life.
So when I read, "Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married" I was a little confused. Paperback, Pretty Cover, Cutsie name...so what is this? A heroine with bouts of depression? Alcoholic fathers? Broken Homes? How...how...realistic!
Yes, that is my main complaint about Marian Keyes witty yet occasionally grim novel; "Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married" it is far too realistic.
Set in downtown London, the book stars (surprise, surprise) Lucy Sullivan, an insecure, nine to five worker with an infamously unsuccessful love life which takes an interesting twist when a fortune-teller predicts that she will get married within the year.
Keyes' style is intelligent and funny, and her characters are likable and diverse. However, as I said before, this book is not the light piece of fiction is appears. Lucy suffers from depression and major insecurity and around three-quarters of the way through; the book takes a strange and unexpectedly dark turn.
I liked it, but while I originally thought that it belonged to the same category of books as the 'Shopaholic' series, I now see that it is quite different.
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