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Marrow
428 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2000
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May 12, 2010
I don't really know why I picked up this book to read in the first place. I bought from a used book bookstore. Maybe I thought it has some chef thingy and culinary stuff then it would be great since I haven't read any of like this. I was hoping something cool but it never appears.
Sadly, the book didn't really hooked me up. I read it till the last page because I can't give up reading a book. The plot is shaky which the destination of the storyline is lost and I can't think of a good reason why the book is poorly comprehended.
Seamus is a jerk, yes. Genevieve wants a bit like revenge to Seamus but she can't because she keep falling to Seamus. However, when Genevieve thinks she can't love Seamus in the end, Darke makes a dreadful closure. I must say, it was out of no where, and suddenly Genevieve fall for someone else from Marrow and left Seamus just like that, by explaining like a quarter of page phone call conversation. Dreadful.
Sadly, the book didn't really hooked me up. I read it till the last page because I can't give up reading a book. The plot is shaky which the destination of the storyline is lost and I can't think of a good reason why the book is poorly comprehended.
Seamus is a jerk, yes. Genevieve wants a bit like revenge to Seamus but she can't because she keep falling to Seamus. However, when Genevieve thinks she can't love Seamus in the end, Darke makes a dreadful closure. I must say, it was out of no where, and suddenly Genevieve fall for someone else from Marrow and left Seamus just like that, by explaining like a quarter of page phone call conversation. Dreadful.
May 24, 2020
Saai boek. Geen leuke schrijfstijl.
October 18, 2025
Remember Boiling Point and Beyond Boiling Point with Gordon Ramsey? I rewatched those earlier in the year and decided to make Marrow my bedtime read as it sounded hilarious.
The first few chapters are essentially a rehash of the happenings of Boiling Point. However, in this version, Gordon, or "Seamus" as he's called here is unmarried and shagging around London. His old flame Genevieve comes to London to see him again after her father dies.
The tagline is 'the ultimate in food, sex and bad behaviour" but really it needed more sex scenes and less of the really quite dull restaurant stuff. There's a decent sex scene in a flashback but that's about it.
The characters are mostly underbaked. There's a lot of telling rather than showing, especially with Seamus and Genevieve's relationship which makes it impossible to root for them. However, with the about-face at the end, maybe that wasn't a concern of Darke's.
I liked Michael, he's one of the few sympathetic characters in the book and he and Genevieve seem well suited, so I was pleased to see them poised to get together at the end. I was rather worried that Darke would have S&G together at the end as it looked like she was writing another pregnancy in for Genevieve (possibly an unwritten sequel plot point?).
I'm not sure I'd recommend this one, but I do think that it's an amusing bit of lore from Beyond Boiling Point.
The first few chapters are essentially a rehash of the happenings of Boiling Point. However, in this version, Gordon, or "Seamus" as he's called here is unmarried and shagging around London. His old flame Genevieve comes to London to see him again after her father dies.
The tagline is 'the ultimate in food, sex and bad behaviour" but really it needed more sex scenes and less of the really quite dull restaurant stuff. There's a decent sex scene in a flashback but that's about it.
The characters are mostly underbaked. There's a lot of telling rather than showing, especially with Seamus and Genevieve's relationship which makes it impossible to root for them. However, with the about-face at the end, maybe that wasn't a concern of Darke's.
I liked Michael, he's one of the few sympathetic characters in the book and he and Genevieve seem well suited, so I was pleased to see them poised to get together at the end. I was rather worried that Darke would have S&G together at the end as it looked like she was writing another pregnancy in for Genevieve (possibly an unwritten sequel plot point?).
I'm not sure I'd recommend this one, but I do think that it's an amusing bit of lore from Beyond Boiling Point.
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January 29, 2026
Very funny. Loved the recipes. They were so apt!
December 15, 2017
pfieuw, waar moet ik beginnen bij dit boek.
Het is met momenten heel vlot geschreven, leuke wendingen, fijne details.
Maar op andere momenten is het allemaal wat saai, voorspelbaar en traag.
helaas waren er veel 'andere momenten', maar genoeg goede momenten om ervoor te zorgen dat ik het boek uitlas en toch nog aan het goed tempo, omdat ik eindelijk wou weten hoe het nu precies ging eindigen.
Het is met momenten heel vlot geschreven, leuke wendingen, fijne details.
Maar op andere momenten is het allemaal wat saai, voorspelbaar en traag.
helaas waren er veel 'andere momenten', maar genoeg goede momenten om ervoor te zorgen dat ik het boek uitlas en toch nog aan het goed tempo, omdat ik eindelijk wou weten hoe het nu precies ging eindigen.
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August 22, 2013Not so impressive, Why she fall in love with him at the first place
and after all this long she still come back for him?
However at the last she still not staying with him, but instead with another guy?
and after all this long she still come back for him?
However at the last she still not staying with him, but instead with another guy?
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June 26, 2016Easy to read, just light fiction, set in the restaurant world
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