Отпусни му края

by Alexandra Potter, Александра Потър, Гергана Драйчева (translator)

Знаеш ли какво те очаква зад следващия завой? Какво би се случило, ако трябва да избираш между почти непознат мъж и любовта на живота си…

Животът на Франки се разпада. За седмица тя изгубва всичко – страхотна работа, прекрасен апартамент, гаджето си Хю, с когото си е мечтала да остарее…

Съкрушена, тя взима решение. Ако Хю иска пространство, ще го получи (цели 6 хиляди мили). Тя заминава за Ел Ей при своята стара приятелка Рита, за да забрави Хю и да подреди живота си. И определено не желае да се поддава на чара на привлекателния фотограф Райли – най-арогантният и егоистичен мъж, когото е срещала. Също и най-сексапилния. Какво би се случило, ако трябва да избираш между почти непознат мъж и любовта на живота си…

Genres: Chick Lit, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Adult, Womens Fiction, Contemporary Romance

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 19, 2001

About the author

Alexandra Potter is the best-selling author of fourteen romantic comedy fiction novels including Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up (which is now the basis of a major US TV show, NOT DEAD YET on ABC, Hulu and Disney+) MORE Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up and One Good Thing. These titles have been published in twenty-five territories and have sold millions of copies worldwide (making the bestseller charts in the UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Serbia).

Yorkshire born and raised, Alexandra lives in London with her Californian husband and their Bosnian rescue dog. When she's not writing or travelling, she's getting out into nature, trying not to look at her phone and navigating this thing called mid-life.
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Reviews

[Мелани Шакири · Rating 5 out of 5]

Здравейте, книжни дракони! 🍷

С дългоочакваното завръщане на топлото и изпълнено с надежда за романтични и приятелски забавления лято, на мен пък ми се завърна желанието да продължа да смалявам списъка си от не Прочетени Космополитанки. А понеже в последно време живота ми се струва доста стресиращ и динамичен по не особено приятен начин, какъв по-добър избор от книга на име "Отпусни му края"? Още повече точки прибавяме и че е писана от една от любимите ми писателки на такъв тип романи, а по-точно Александра Потър (други нейни книги, които съм чела са "Ако върнеш времето назад" - моето ревю тук). Така че ето и перфектната комбинация за една разпускаща и много приятна чиклит творба!

За автора:
Александра Потър е родена на 8 май 1970 г. в Брадфорд, Западен Йоркшир, Англия. Баща ѝ Рей е инженер, а майка ѝ Анита е училищен секретар. Има по-голяма сестра – Кели. Обича да чете и опитва да пише още от училище.
Завършва Университета на Ливърпул с почетна степен по английска литература и филмово изкуство. През 1993 г. се премества в Лондон, за да работи като главен редактор на списание пъзел (за кръстословици и игри). В свободното си време пише статии, които публикува в известни издания, като „ELLE“, „Company“, „She“, „Cosmopolitan“, и др. След 5 години заминава за Сидни, Австралия, където шест месеца работи за австралийските списания „Vogue“ и „Cleo“.
В продължение на години мечтата ѝ е да пише романи, и през 1999 г. използва обедите и уикендите, за да пише. Изпраща първите три глави на различни издатели и получава положителни отговори. Напуска работата си и за шест месеца довършва романа.
Първият ѝ роман в стил чиклит „What's New, Pussycat?“ е публикуван през 2000 г. Той веднага попада в списъците на бестселърите и тя се посвещава на писателската си кариера.
Произведенията на писателката често са в списъците на бестселърите. Те са издадени в над 20 страни по света.
Александра Потър живее в Лос Анджелис и Нотинг Хил, Лондон.

Анотация:
Животът на Франки се разпада. За седмици тя загубва всичко - страхотна работа, прекрасен апартамент, гаджето си Хю, с когото си е мечтала да остарее... Съкрушена, тя взема решение. Ако Хю иска пространство, ще го получи: цели 6 хиляди мили.

Тя заминава за Ел Ей при своята стара приятелка Рита, за да забрави Хю и да подреди живота си. И определено не желае да се поддава на чара на привлекателния фотограф Райли - най-арогантният и егоистичен мъж, когото е срещала. Също и най-сексапилният. Какво би се случило, ако трябва да избираш между почти непознат мъж и любовта на живота си...

Моето ревю:
Понякога, честно да ви кажа, съм готова да приравня чиклитите заедно с книгите за самопомощ (вземете "Тънкото Изкуство Да Не Ти Пука" - моето ревю тук, за пример). Наистина, да видиш как живота на измислените герои, които все пак са написани от истински хора с истински опит, доста се приближава до някои аспекти на твоят собствен е отчасти утешително. Казваш си "Мале, ето че не само на мен се случват такива неща!" или пък възкликваш посредата на четенето нещо от сорта на "Хей, на мен ми го каза напълно същото, когато..." и бавно осъзнаваш, че хората са си хора и винаги ще си останат такива. Независимо дали бедни или богати, млади или стари, от Запада или от Изтока, хората са си все същите и често имат един и същи начин на мислене. А осъзнаването на такова нещо си е меко казано като терапията, която очакваш и от книгите за усъвършенстване на живота. Обмисляш всичко и накрая осъзнаваш, че ако героинята ти е попаднала в същата ситуация като теб (а в "Отпусни му края" Франки определено изживяваше моето всекидневие) може би няма лошо и да вземеш някой и друг пример от нея. Все пак, жените се подкрепят 🤷🏼‍♀️

Стилът на писане на Потър също много помага за отпускането ми като читател в присъствието на нейните текстове. Способността ѝ да наслагва думите увлекателно една след друга, карайки сюжетът да тече гладно и безпроблемно е удивителна. Не съм срещала често писатели, които да изобразяват чрез прости изречения така живи героите си и да ги правят толкова привлекателни и близки до читателите. Тя успява да ме накара да не искам да пускам романа ѝ, докато не го прочета, а после ме оставя с едно чувство за празнота, не знаеща с какво да продължа после, защото нищо не ми се струва достатъчно добро.

"Отпусни му края" определено дойде при мен в един добър момент и ми помогна малко да успокоя емоциите, развихрили се в собственото ми ежедневие. Бих желала да прочета книгата скоро пак, понеже и историята, и персонажите, и обстановката... Всичко е така отпускащо!



Давам ѝ 5/5 звезди ✨


Благодаря ви, че останахте с мен до края на това ревю!
Приятен ден и късмет в живота! 🖤

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[Kate’s Book Spot · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this book because I previously read and enjoyed What’s New, Pussycat? by Alexandra Potter and wanted to read more from her.

This book has a lovely cover and the story captured my interest right from the start, Frankie was a likeable character who seemed to be going through a rough time after losing her job. After a disastrous birthday trip to the bowling alley she also ends up losing her boyfriend and her home.

I loved following her story as she headed to LA to start a new life full of glamour and fascinating LA living. During her time there a few coincidences seem to push her in a certain direction, one which she is quite reluctant to head towards. As I’ve said before, I love a story that contains a coincidence or two so this was a particularly enjoyable part of the book for me.

Rita and Dorian were brilliant characters – really fun and outgoing, they certainly liked to enjoy life and have a good time. Reilly was an interesting, sexy guy who couldn’t figure Frankie out as she blew hot and cold with her indecision.

This book may have been a little bit predictable at times but this didn’t affect my enjoyment of it in the slightest and I found that I just didn’t want to put it down (another one day read to add to the list).

This is a real page-turner and, seeing as most of it is based in LA, a perfect summery read.

[LittleStar28282 · Rating 5 out of 5]

My rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗(4,5)

[Lightblue · Rating 2 out of 5]

Che delusione... Ho tanto amato questa scrittrice in You're the one I don't want, mi aveva fatto ridere ed emozionare! Invece questo libro è pieno di stereotipi e cliché e si capisce come andrà a finire a pagina 3! Concesso che è un chick-lit e ammesso che è stato scritto 12 anni fa e che quindi i gusti cambiano con il tempo, rimane un libro che sa di già letto e già visto e di cui si può tranquillamente fare a meno!

[Jelena · Rating 3 out of 5]

2,5*

[Dorine Chantepie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very predictable, extremely 90s, but a welcome light reading after a few "heavy" books.

[Lejla · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am pretty disappointed with this novel. I have read a lot of AP's novels, and I expected much more from this one.

[Stacey Plumb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Took me a while to get into. Got up to chapter 17 and hadn’t a clue what I’d read so started again. Ended up being pretty good. Ending was a little too quick for me. I’d have liked a slower build up with the woman taking the lead for the end result instead of it just miraculously happening (hopefully that makes sense without giving too much away).

[Mavis Ros · Rating 3 out of 5]

The cliche trope’s pretty much generic to predict how it ends the way you pictured it.

[Zahrah Alawami · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring and so much of a cliche

[Nurhidayah Farhanah · Rating 1 out of 5]

so, when i first read the synopsis really caught my eyes. i thought the first half of the book is very interesting then after while it started getting really really BORING! i cant express most of the part in the book. it's like 30% of the book is the conversation between the character. most of them is a bunch of crap and lines, lines, and more lines of monologue to the readers. WTF? the writing is kinda sloppy and dull. it's like running in a circle. until the towards the end where the plot is start to kick in. it's almost 30 pages left that is when i feel the need to read the book. i say dont judge the book by the synopsis nowadays. it's just wasting my damn money to buy this book.

[Fatma · Rating 3 out of 5]

I , as well , want to go La La ~
xD

[Soho_Black · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wasn’t entirely impressed by Alexandra Potter’s debut novel “What’s New, Pussycat”, but I hate to leave a book unread more than I disliked it, so with my wife’s tastes clearly having tended towards Potter’s work at some stage, I was compelled to try further novels. The cover of “Going La La” suggested that the earlier book had been a bestseller, so perhaps there had been something I had missed.

Everything seems to be going well for Francesca Pickles. She has a job she enjoys, as a features writer for Lifestyle magazine and she lives with her boyfriend of a couple of years, Hugh. Perhaps most excitingly, it is just a few days away from her birthday and she has just discovered a receipt in Hugh’s coat pocket for an engagement ring from Tiffany’s. Not only is life good, but the immediate prospects of it getting even better over the coming week or so look very promising indeed.

Of course, this next week proves to be the worst of Frankie’s life, as far as she can tell. Her employer goes bankrupt, her birthday takes place in a bowling alley with a couple of Hugh’s friends instead of a fancy restaurant she was hoping for, and the receipt for the ring turns out to have been put in Hugh’s pocket by Adam, Hugh’s colleague, who promptly proposes to his girlfriend in front of them, on her birthday. Then Hugh announces that he needs space and wants to break up, so Frankie must move out of the flat they share and she loves.

Fortunately, Frankie’s old flatmate Rita moved to Los Angeles looking to become an actress and has been pestering Frankie to come over for a visit. Figuring the West Coast of America is far enough away to give Hugh the space he wants, she decides to pay her a visit. However, in keeping with her recent life, even this isn’t a simple experience, as she gets drunk at the airport and gets into an argument with an American at the airport who she is then forced to sit next to for several hours.

Sadly, there is precious little to enjoy here, as this book is as predictable and cliched as Potter’s debut. As with the main character in “What’s New, Pussycat” being named Delilah, it seems that Frankie has been given her name purely as a set up for a “Frankie goes to Hollywood” joke early in the book. Then there is the brash American Frankie hates on sight. It is entirely predictable that in a city of nearly 4 million people, she could consistently bump into the same one and that feelings should develop between them and the ending of the book is entirely predictable and far too Hollywood for realism.

The setting is also fairly cliched as well, with the only places Frankie should end up going should be all the well-known places within Los Angeles. Mann’s Chinese Theatre gets a mention, Hollywood Boulevard is travelled a lot and even the houses seem to be on the side of the valley and have balconies overlooking the city, which every person in Los Angeles based novels and films seems to live in. Whilst the famous people are fictional, the locations and the situations are fairly standard and it feels as if any research that may have been carried out has been done as a tourist more than someone who has spent an extended period in Los Angeles.

The characters are reasonably well drawn, if a little one-dimensional and lacking in depth. The two men in Frankie’s life are presented as complete opposites and there is little danger of mixing them up. There is a clear differentiation between the two Englishwomen, Rita and Frankie, with their differing lifestyles and attitudes towards the city. That said, Rita is entirely different and it’s not easy to see how they had much in common and the character of Dorian seems to fill a similar role to that of Vivienne in “What’s New, Pussycat”, almost as an embodiment of the city, which is a nice touch, but seems a little too over the top.

Both storyline and characters are entirely predictable, with the only thing that may have made it more so was an uncomfortable revelation in the relationship between Rita and Matt. The Police interruption of a nice day out on the beach was perhaps slightly unexpected, but there was nothing else that you couldn’t have seen coming a long way off and much that did happen was a little over the top. Even when there was a change of location, it wasn’t to an entirely unexpected place and once again in that circumstances, the places and situations were virtually identical to those visited in both written and visual fiction on numerous occasions.

On the plus side, this is a simply written book which does mean it passes by very quickly and probably makes it a decent novel to be reading for a long journey – perhaps a flight from Heathrow to Los Angeles. The clichés may annoy, but it could give a vague idea of places you may want to see and whilst neither locations nor plot ever veer far away from the beaten track, or offer anything of more than passing interest, it does at least pass time in a largely inoffensive way.

[Plum-crazy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another good book from this author following a tried & tested formula....girl gets dumped & meets new guy who isn't her type...or is he?

When Frankie gets dumped by the awful Hugh (how...or perhaps that should be why... did she put up with him?) she flees to stay with her ex-flat mate Rita, who's now in LA trying to break into showbiz. As her supposedly 2 weeks holiday turns into a longer stay, Frankie meets all sorts of characters (especially liked Dorian - great fun!) & has various encounters with the gorgeous Reilly, but if it comes down to it, who will she choose, Reilly or Hugh.....no choice in my opinion!

[Jade Hill · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ve read a few Alexandra Potter stories (Be Careful What You Wish For, What’s New Pussycat, Whos That Girl and Me and Mr Darcy) and I loved all of them. It took me a bit longer to get into Going La La. This was my fourth attempt at reading it in fact. I’d suggest reading the other titles I’ve mentioned before reading this one.

[Cinders Of Light · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adorable. Absolutely adorable as any other one of Alexandra Potter's books I've read so far. Those last 8 pages got me stressing a bit, but all's well that ends well.

These are the perfect books for summertime. Margarita's in hand while enjoying the salty air on the beach. Nothing can surpass the light read rom-coms that first made me fall in love with reading.

[Louise Mitchell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. A quick easy read.

[Mina Pejović · Rating 5 out of 5]

Добра књига у овом жанру, свиђа ми се како се радња одвија. Допада ми се њен стил, није сладуњаво а опет није ни напорно за праћење. Препорука за опуштање 👍

[Sarah Mazdon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfect chick lit book to read in the summer sunshine.

[Elizabeth Marion · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one is sure to score points with all the hopeless romantics out there. It’s the type of fiction you just can’t resist; feel- good fiction full of unexpected twists and turns

[Khadijah's Archives · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars
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[Dragana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lagana pricica, savrsena knjiga za citanje na plazi uz dobro osvezenje 😎

[Teodora Rukova · Rating 1 out of 5]

Голяма боза..

[Jacqueline Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Frankie has it all, good job, lovely apartment and Hugh her boyfriend of 2 years....then it all goes pear shaped! This book is a good fun, predictable, romantic easy read

[Savina Angelova · Rating 2 out of 5]

Чела съм и по-добри книги от авторката. Имаше доста излишни неща, а финалът някак си беше претупан. Изключително банален сюжет.

[Loz · Rating 1 out of 5]

Such a snooze fest. Full of cliches and had no actual substance to it. Okay for a quick holiday read I guess but wasn’t worthwhile.

[Veron Pe · Rating 4 out of 5]

A slow start for me …. But overall nice easy reading.

[Natasha · Rating 1 out of 5]

Did not finish.
Not as good as her other books.
Boring

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Agustiar · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't know About You all I am from Indonesia and this novel just feels so vulgar to me, but overall i really enjoy it's story telling.