Chick Literate » 3 hearts award http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate Confessions of a chick lit fanatic Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:17:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 French Relations http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/french-relations.html http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/french-relations.html#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:29:41 +0000 lklawless http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/?p=46 French Releations - 3 hearts awardFiona Walker’s French Relations has a lot of good points, and one scene in particular is laugh-until-you-bawl funny. But it has some bad ones too, like obvious and repeated foreshadowing (I think I counted 10 mentions of the same event) and an over-reliance on puns for laughs. They can be funny, sure, but that sort of humor starts to get old really quickly. But it’s a fun read, and has a sequel. I love books with sequels for the same reason I like TV more than movies – I like to stay invested in the same characters for as long as possible.

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SPOILERS She is described as being somewhat plain, yet she is actively pursued by two completely different but extremely eligible men, and two others also express interest in her. I just don’t buy it. I believe in not judging a book by its cover, etc., but I just don’t believe that an average-sounding woman in her mid-30s would have 4 men slobbering over her. And that’s what ruins this book for me.

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