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Gallery Girl
A hilarious tale from Sunday Times Number 1 bestselling author Wendy Holden. Zeb's the darling of Brit Art; the rock n' roll bad boy artist whose works go for bazillions. But can he keep his end up -- in every sense -- now that his powerful female patron is losing interest? Beth loves art and the traditional gallery she works in and loves her boyfriend, doctor David. But the hospital hours he keeps are putting a strain on the relationship. Marie's pop-star husband was big in the Nineties; he's relaunching his boy band with a vengeance. But where does this leave Marie and her dreams of being a painter? Ben's a brilliant portrait artist but no-one wants his stuff. Why have a picture that actually looks like you when you could have a gold-sprayed prosthetic limb? Disillusioned Ben's reduced to living in the country and holding adult education life classes. But what happened to his life?Then Beth finds herself catapulted into the crazed world of contemporary art. Marie walks into Ben's life class. And the picture changes completely.
512 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2010
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About the author
Wendy Holden
31 books425 followersWendy Holden grew up in Yorkshire, and studied English at Girton College, Cambridge. She worked in magazines for many years before joining Tatler's in 1997 as deputy editor, and later moved to the Mail on Sunday’s You magazine, which she left in 2000 to concentrate on writing. She regularly writes features for newspapers and magazines on a range of social, topical and lifestyle subjects and is also a television and radio contributor.
She has now published ten novels, Gallery Girl, Beautiful People, Bad Heir Day, Pastures Nouveaux, Fame Fatale, Azur Like It, The Wives of Bath, The School for Husbands, Filthy Rich, Farm Fatale, Gossip Hound, Simply Divine, all top 10 bestsellers.
Holden is married, and lives in England with her family.
She has now published ten novels, Gallery Girl, Beautiful People, Bad Heir Day, Pastures Nouveaux, Fame Fatale, Azur Like It, The Wives of Bath, The School for Husbands, Filthy Rich, Farm Fatale, Gossip Hound, Simply Divine, all top 10 bestsellers.
Holden is married, and lives in England with her family.
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July 15, 2024
A book I've never survived the first dozen of pages, if it had not been recommended. A strong and acid satire develops in a fairy tale, the few fine characters are more than successful, some of the villains, as Zeb, choose the right way and almost everybody gets a new place in the puzzle.
There are indeed some magnifications, as the grotesque style of "art", including the so-called Zero-story, but the feeling of accomplishment in the final is certainly the dominant feature of the story. A proper book for girls, but not only for them...
There are indeed some magnifications, as the grotesque style of "art", including the so-called Zero-story, but the feeling of accomplishment in the final is certainly the dominant feature of the story. A proper book for girls, but not only for them...
April 17, 2017
Funny witty and entertaining! A real girly book for those lazy or rainy days
November 11, 2011
I actually enjoyed this book quite a lot. Though it was fairly predictable, there were a few surprises and the commentary on the contemporary art world was - in my opinion - hilarious, and (although obviously somewhat exaggerated) very accurate. I found this book light, cheerful, funny and perfect for lazy summer reading. I'll probably read it again at some point - preferably while lying on a beach with nothing else that needs doing.
May 13, 2014
This is my second Wendy Holden book and as in the first one I thought there were too many characters. That being said their stories twined through each other well enough that it was easy to follow. There were characters I totally detested and those I cheered for. The outcome was predictable, however sometimes a person has read books like this for the sheer pleasure of reading.
August 18, 2010
Zeb Spaw is the contemporary artist of the year, even more so after his latest work Prostheseus Bound recently sold for £20 million, but will he be able to keep the masterpieces coming, or is it all downhill from there? Alice loves working in Palladio, a traditional art gallery, and loves boyfriend David more, but with him working longer hours their relationship is reaching breaking point. Maeve’s husband Ciaran has decided to re-launch his boy-band Boyfriend after the recent successful re-launches of Take That and Boyzone, but what about Maeve and her desire to begin painting again? Dan, a less than successful portrait painter, has moved to the country in the hope of finally getting his big break but ends up holding life classes. When Alice is catapulted into the world of contemporary art, she doesn’t know what to do with herself. And when Maeve walks into one of Dan’s art classes, there’s no telling where it will end.
I read my first Wendy Holden book last year and, despite it’s length – a massive 700 pages, I did really enjoy reading it. It was escapism at its best and I loved reading such a glamorous and sartorial tale. When I heard Wendy’s new book was a fresh take on Cinderella I was quite pleased. I adore the Cinderella fairytale and I couldn’t wait to see how Wendy put her own spin on the tail and I looked forward to reading it. I managed to receive an early copy and after finishing the ‘Shopaholic’ series, I eagerly started Gallery Girl.
Gallery Girl is another rather large book from Wendy, coming it at just under 500 pages and yet again Wendy is giving us her sartorial take on a world many of us probably don’t know. This time her focus is on the art gallery world, something I don’t really have any knowledge of, and I must admit that it seems like a totally bizarre world, if anything in the book is at all true. I doubt the majority of it is, as I know Wendy takes her ideas and then spins them into comical fiction novels so I suppose it’s a bit more ‘out there’ and exaggerated than what goes on in the actual art world. Despite the fact Wendy’s books are meant to be funny, I didn’t actually find Gallery Girl funny at all; there weren’t really any comical or laugh out loud moments. In fact, if anything, I did find Gallery Girl a bit of a difficult read.
I said that Gallery Girl was supposed to be a fresh take on Cinderella but I didn’t see any similarities to Cinderella in the book so I find that comparison a little bit confusing. Also, there doesn’t seem to be any kind of real plot. It just seemed like a bit of a mickey-take of the art world and I couldn’t point to one plot and say, “That’s the main one”. There’s a lot that goes on, most of it art-related, with Zeb, Alice and Angelica and also with Dan and Maeve but it was all a bit disjointed and seemed as if the book was a bit cobbled together. That may seem a bit harsh, and it pains me to say it, believe me, but there was no flow at all to the book. It jumped from Alice, to Angelica, to Zeb, to Dan, to Maeve and I could barely keep up with so many different plot strands at work.
Another huge problem I had with the book was the sheer amount of characters. There’s the main players of Alice, Angelica, Zeb, Dan and Maeve but then there’s various boyfriends, patrons, husbands, girlfriends/flat mates, friends and the book is fat with characters. So fat, in fact, that I couldn’t really get a grip on anybody. The only characters I think I liked were Dan and Maeve, they seemed like lovely people, and I quite liked their mini-plot line. Alice seemed like an OK character, too, but there wasn’t really enough of her. Bar those three, I couldn’t stand anyone else. As I’ve said there are tons of characters, most of them superfluous really, I would have taken out Maeve’s boy-band husband as well as Alice’s boyfriend David, as neither of them really added anything to the book other than padding and I think the book may have flowed a bit better without them and I certainly wouldn’t have missed them.
Don’t get me wrong, Gallery Girl wasn’t a bad book, but I just don’t think it worked for me. There was no real plot, just lots of strange strands hoping to form one big plot, a few too many characters and, to be honest, any art references just went straight over my head. I’m sure that someone who does know something about contemporary art would enjoy the comical, exaggerated tale and find all the daft sculptures and artists hilarious but because I know nothing about it, I wasn’t really able to appreciate Wendy’s take on it. I do however appreciate how much research Wendy must have put into the book as it does seem to be very well researched and thought-out. So although it’s not to my tastes, there may be people out there better able to appreciate it
I read my first Wendy Holden book last year and, despite it’s length – a massive 700 pages, I did really enjoy reading it. It was escapism at its best and I loved reading such a glamorous and sartorial tale. When I heard Wendy’s new book was a fresh take on Cinderella I was quite pleased. I adore the Cinderella fairytale and I couldn’t wait to see how Wendy put her own spin on the tail and I looked forward to reading it. I managed to receive an early copy and after finishing the ‘Shopaholic’ series, I eagerly started Gallery Girl.
Gallery Girl is another rather large book from Wendy, coming it at just under 500 pages and yet again Wendy is giving us her sartorial take on a world many of us probably don’t know. This time her focus is on the art gallery world, something I don’t really have any knowledge of, and I must admit that it seems like a totally bizarre world, if anything in the book is at all true. I doubt the majority of it is, as I know Wendy takes her ideas and then spins them into comical fiction novels so I suppose it’s a bit more ‘out there’ and exaggerated than what goes on in the actual art world. Despite the fact Wendy’s books are meant to be funny, I didn’t actually find Gallery Girl funny at all; there weren’t really any comical or laugh out loud moments. In fact, if anything, I did find Gallery Girl a bit of a difficult read.
I said that Gallery Girl was supposed to be a fresh take on Cinderella but I didn’t see any similarities to Cinderella in the book so I find that comparison a little bit confusing. Also, there doesn’t seem to be any kind of real plot. It just seemed like a bit of a mickey-take of the art world and I couldn’t point to one plot and say, “That’s the main one”. There’s a lot that goes on, most of it art-related, with Zeb, Alice and Angelica and also with Dan and Maeve but it was all a bit disjointed and seemed as if the book was a bit cobbled together. That may seem a bit harsh, and it pains me to say it, believe me, but there was no flow at all to the book. It jumped from Alice, to Angelica, to Zeb, to Dan, to Maeve and I could barely keep up with so many different plot strands at work.
Another huge problem I had with the book was the sheer amount of characters. There’s the main players of Alice, Angelica, Zeb, Dan and Maeve but then there’s various boyfriends, patrons, husbands, girlfriends/flat mates, friends and the book is fat with characters. So fat, in fact, that I couldn’t really get a grip on anybody. The only characters I think I liked were Dan and Maeve, they seemed like lovely people, and I quite liked their mini-plot line. Alice seemed like an OK character, too, but there wasn’t really enough of her. Bar those three, I couldn’t stand anyone else. As I’ve said there are tons of characters, most of them superfluous really, I would have taken out Maeve’s boy-band husband as well as Alice’s boyfriend David, as neither of them really added anything to the book other than padding and I think the book may have flowed a bit better without them and I certainly wouldn’t have missed them.
Don’t get me wrong, Gallery Girl wasn’t a bad book, but I just don’t think it worked for me. There was no real plot, just lots of strange strands hoping to form one big plot, a few too many characters and, to be honest, any art references just went straight over my head. I’m sure that someone who does know something about contemporary art would enjoy the comical, exaggerated tale and find all the daft sculptures and artists hilarious but because I know nothing about it, I wasn’t really able to appreciate Wendy’s take on it. I do however appreciate how much research Wendy must have put into the book as it does seem to be very well researched and thought-out. So although it’s not to my tastes, there may be people out there better able to appreciate it
December 12, 2013
Guilty pleasure - a harmless, easy read that as someone who is in the art world, I very much appreciated. I giggled out loud at the ridiculousness of it all, because it's closer to reality than you might think!
July 18, 2018
Was ok, would be a good read if your not holiday, zero concentration required and not really engaging.
May 21, 2018
Had to edit my review not because it was wrong, but happened to look at the back cover and again found the preview misleading (as opposed to this site, which is much more accurate, if you ignore the fact that the ex-rockers wife's name is Siobhan and not Marie).
Even the praises on the book r misleading cause it somehow seems that everyone and everything is revolving around Alice, when that's really not the case. She may have a leading role in her story but hers is one of many, they do intertwine from time to time. But again u r misled into thinking that everyone (excluding her Doctor BF is infatuated or "panting" after her).
The other criticisms i have is the "blinder's" most of the female leads have in this book (come to think of it, seems to me that most of the female authors that i've come across from the UK and surroundings Countries) seem to always write about clueless female leads that's not only being cheated on (and even though there are loads of clues that anyone should/would pick on), she's in her own rose tinted world, even though her BF is usually unappreciative or even down right demeaning and invalidating. And usually he cheats on her with a equally b*tch of a "best friend". But she almost, until the end won't give up on her delusion.
Other then that this was cute and even if there were bits that annoyed me it was a light easy read, with loads of likeable characters, some that i didnt even like at the beginning (i.e. Zeb) that did a 180 by the end.
Enjoyed and wholeheartedly recommend.
Even the praises on the book r misleading cause it somehow seems that everyone and everything is revolving around Alice, when that's really not the case. She may have a leading role in her story but hers is one of many, they do intertwine from time to time. But again u r misled into thinking that everyone (excluding her Doctor BF is infatuated or "panting" after her).
The other criticisms i have is the "blinder's" most of the female leads have in this book (come to think of it, seems to me that most of the female authors that i've come across from the UK and surroundings Countries) seem to always write about clueless female leads that's not only being cheated on (and even though there are loads of clues that anyone should/would pick on), she's in her own rose tinted world, even though her BF is usually unappreciative or even down right demeaning and invalidating. And usually he cheats on her with a equally b*tch of a "best friend". But she almost, until the end won't give up on her delusion.
Other then that this was cute and even if there were bits that annoyed me it was a light easy read, with loads of likeable characters, some that i didnt even like at the beginning (i.e. Zeb) that did a 180 by the end.
Enjoyed and wholeheartedly recommend.
December 5, 2022
After trying out Holden's new books that are historical fiction about the royals huge emphasis on the fiction part, I wondered why I used to love her books so much. This book reminded me why. Wendy Holden does humour and satire best and this book is a satirical look at modern art and how crazy that world is. Zeb Spaw is the art world's latest star. After his latest creation of five gold spray painted legs sells for $20 million to a wealthy Ivanka Trump like collector our main character Alice is outraged she believes in the old fashioned view of art. Like paintings and sculptures. She lives with her boyfriend David a doctor and works at an old fashioned gallery with her boss who likes his drink. Soon her whole world will be turned upside-down and she finds herself at the heart of Gold Street home to the wackiest of artists from an physeudo sexual Cinderella to a NHS bed sprayed gold. Her new boss Angelica is in a precarious position when he wealthy husband threatens divorce if she doesn't join him on a retreat in India. Siobhan is married to a former boy band singer who has decided he wants to get tge band back together. He has forbidden her from creating her art but she joins an art class behind his back taught by Dan a portrait painter looking to catch a break. All these story lines come together in the end, with one artist holding a funeral for the art works people no longer want, relationships falling apart but new ones are formed, once arrogant people become more humble all wrapped up in a very entertaining amusing story.
November 23, 2018
1 star for the first half and 4 stars for the 2nd half. I was about to give up the book at first, slow and too many characters. Then it came the 2nd half, where things got boosted up. Even though, its predicable, the ending, but I still enjoyed the way she tidied all things together.
June 12, 2023
the book was fun and witty, but it felt a little to dirty to be found in the teens section. there were a few pages I had to put the book down. there is a lot of sexual content, especially in the first few pages, because within the first few pages, there is dtuff mentioned abt sex.
November 11, 2023
The second Wendy Holden book I’ve read and I love them. Sometimes you just want reading to be a fun, escapist experience, which is exactly what this book is. Can’t wait to race into another W.H. fun read!
March 28, 2025
O carte destul de ok, dar totuși nu pe placul meu. A început să devină interesanta abia de la jumătate, rare fiind momentele in care doream sa citesc din ce in ce mai mult.
Finalul este unul drăguț și neașteptat, dar tot mi se pare că sunt foarte multe personaje adaugate brusc în povestea cărții.
Finalul este unul drăguț și neașteptat, dar tot mi se pare că sunt foarte multe personaje adaugate brusc în povestea cărții.
January 3, 2019
It took me a while to get into the book. She must have done a lot of research into the art world, or is in that world because there's a lot of info on that.
December 30, 2022
Light weight book to finish off the year.
November 16, 2024
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January 15, 2025
Really enjoyed this book, didn't want it to end.
October 30, 2015
I feel so disappointed with this book. I have read each and every one of Wendy Holden’s books and either love them or really don’t like them which can be quite frustrating. I have never read an author where my opinion sways so much between books. This book was no different. Her last book entitled Beautiful People I really enjoyed and was again looking forward to her next one.
First off all of her books are pretty hefty reads with this one being no different at 496 pages. This is great if the story warrants it but in the past I have felt that a couple of her books have been that little bit too lengthy. This book definitely fell into this category.
Wendy Holden manages to always create characters with warmth and humour which to a degree she did with this book. However there were too many characters. Yes the story brings them all together but some of the characters and the plots that were strung through the book just seemed a little pointless.
The main character appeared to be Beth and admittedly she was written well but her boyfriend, friends and other plots that ran alongside her seemed to be…well…put there to fill space. There were so many characters aside from Beth but there was never enough time to really connect with any of them as you jumped from character to another to keep the plot going. Some of the characters are the type you see in a Teen movie and were too over the top for my liking.
The other characters either seemed completely unbelievable or like they just had no personality (Marie being one of those characters). Zeb Spaw was quite good but there is a sudden character change literally overnight that kind of ruins the image we first get of him.
I also felt like it was an effort to actually read the book which is quite unusual for me, especially books in this genre, which nine times out of ten are very easy to read. I finished the book and just felt flat, it was all very obvious where the story was being taken and seemed a little too young girl fairytale for me. Nobody minds the fairytale ending but it has to be written in a reasonably believable way!
Really disappointed that this book wasn’t as good as I expected. It wasn’t horrendous, but it just wasn’t that good. If you were to read Beautiful People (published in 2009) and then this book you wouldn’t believe they were written by the same author. I will probably continue to read Wendy Holden’s books but just hope that there is a bit more consistency in her future offerings.
First off all of her books are pretty hefty reads with this one being no different at 496 pages. This is great if the story warrants it but in the past I have felt that a couple of her books have been that little bit too lengthy. This book definitely fell into this category.
Wendy Holden manages to always create characters with warmth and humour which to a degree she did with this book. However there were too many characters. Yes the story brings them all together but some of the characters and the plots that were strung through the book just seemed a little pointless.
The main character appeared to be Beth and admittedly she was written well but her boyfriend, friends and other plots that ran alongside her seemed to be…well…put there to fill space. There were so many characters aside from Beth but there was never enough time to really connect with any of them as you jumped from character to another to keep the plot going. Some of the characters are the type you see in a Teen movie and were too over the top for my liking.
The other characters either seemed completely unbelievable or like they just had no personality (Marie being one of those characters). Zeb Spaw was quite good but there is a sudden character change literally overnight that kind of ruins the image we first get of him.
I also felt like it was an effort to actually read the book which is quite unusual for me, especially books in this genre, which nine times out of ten are very easy to read. I finished the book and just felt flat, it was all very obvious where the story was being taken and seemed a little too young girl fairytale for me. Nobody minds the fairytale ending but it has to be written in a reasonably believable way!
Really disappointed that this book wasn’t as good as I expected. It wasn’t horrendous, but it just wasn’t that good. If you were to read Beautiful People (published in 2009) and then this book you wouldn’t believe they were written by the same author. I will probably continue to read Wendy Holden’s books but just hope that there is a bit more consistency in her future offerings.
May 9, 2013
Pro:
- As someone who has been known to ask the question: "That's art? REALLY????", was fun to read about people wrestling with same question and in the end come up with different answers that worked for them, and worked for me
- I liked it that the premise was explored from point of view of "traditional" artists, new concept artists, and non-artists who work in the art world
Con:
- Seemed like every other page had a willy reference
- I'm not fond of toilet humour
- too many characters, sometimes with overlapping issues (why two infidelity story lines?)
- became frustrated with how two of the main female characters allowed themselves to be walked on for so long, and how long it took them to put two and two together. Frustration undercut empathy for their HEA
- story felt too long, and repetitious in parts
Overall: Longtime Holden fans (like me) will appreciate the likeable bits and welcome the recognition of trademark type Holden characters, first-time readers may feel there isn't quite enough satiric wit. Personally I look forward to another Holden novel that gives me the happy, funny reader satisfaction bubble that "Pastures Nouveaux" always does
- As someone who has been known to ask the question: "That's art? REALLY????", was fun to read about people wrestling with same question and in the end come up with different answers that worked for them, and worked for me
- I liked it that the premise was explored from point of view of "traditional" artists, new concept artists, and non-artists who work in the art world
Con:
- Seemed like every other page had a willy reference
- I'm not fond of toilet humour
- too many characters, sometimes with overlapping issues (why two infidelity story lines?)
- became frustrated with how two of the main female characters allowed themselves to be walked on for so long, and how long it took them to put two and two together. Frustration undercut empathy for their HEA
- story felt too long, and repetitious in parts
Overall: Longtime Holden fans (like me) will appreciate the likeable bits and welcome the recognition of trademark type Holden characters, first-time readers may feel there isn't quite enough satiric wit. Personally I look forward to another Holden novel that gives me the happy, funny reader satisfaction bubble that "Pastures Nouveaux" always does
April 3, 2011
This is a 7/10 type of 4 star.
I needed some light relief after Nostromo and a migrane, and this, as expected, provided. It is formulaic chick-lit: the baddy is sexually voracious, selfish and produces bad art to boot; the heroine is repeatedly left in a pickle, but nothing she cannot ultimately get out of; the hero is signposted from before they properly meet and, of course, does proper, old-fashioned paintng. However, being by Wendy Holden this is all served up with plenty of puns and laughs at the expense of the pretentious so doesn't often get stuck in designer-shopping, I'm so ditzy hell.
I needed some light relief after Nostromo and a migrane, and this, as expected, provided. It is formulaic chick-lit: the baddy is sexually voracious, selfish and produces bad art to boot; the heroine is repeatedly left in a pickle, but nothing she cannot ultimately get out of; the hero is signposted from before they properly meet and, of course, does proper, old-fashioned paintng. However, being by Wendy Holden this is all served up with plenty of puns and laughs at the expense of the pretentious so doesn't often get stuck in designer-shopping, I'm so ditzy hell.
May 21, 2015
I found this send up of the conceptual art scene delicious from beginning to end. There couldn't be a more deserving crowd for the treatment served up by Holden. Disclaimer - I have an interest in art so I was more focused on that than on the characters' personal stories. But from the clueless hedge-fund customers to the shallow, social climbing gallery owners and the self-important "artists" making "profound statements" with frozen pee and rotting Chinese take-out, I couldn't stop laughing. It's said that truth is stranger than fiction, and this is certainly the case with the "contemporary art scene." But when you take the stranger-than-fiction truth and turn it into fiction, you've got a double scoop of fun.
October 15, 2015
I kept feeling there was a much better book struggling to get out of this one.
Gallery Girl is written as a satire on the contemporary art world. To make sure we get the message, Holden makes most of the characters cardboard caricatures, and gives them silly surnames like Sump, Krump and Pryap.
The trouble is, the main characters are nice people, and when they're around, the writing is more realistic - some of the descriptions are bordering on the poetic. Which is lovely to read, but against the cartoonish quality of the rest of the action, it jars.
I wish the art world had been peopled by real characters, not cartoons - I think they would've been more ridiculous and therefore funnier, because they would've been more believable.
Gallery Girl is written as a satire on the contemporary art world. To make sure we get the message, Holden makes most of the characters cardboard caricatures, and gives them silly surnames like Sump, Krump and Pryap.
The trouble is, the main characters are nice people, and when they're around, the writing is more realistic - some of the descriptions are bordering on the poetic. Which is lovely to read, but against the cartoonish quality of the rest of the action, it jars.
I wish the art world had been peopled by real characters, not cartoons - I think they would've been more ridiculous and therefore funnier, because they would've been more believable.
August 13, 2012
ho hum, i have read a few of Wendy Hiolden's books in the past and remember really enjoying them. This one not so much. The beginning was hard to follow, there were so many unrelated characters that it was hard to keep up. There was not a clear main character and it was hard to know if you actually cared about any of them. It was also long................ in saying that, 2/3rds of the way through it all came together. The ending was great and not sooooo predictable, the characters got a little deeper and i couldnt wait to see what happened. It's a shame that the first part of the book let it down. Would re-read again but with lower expections.
March 4, 2012
Like many of the Wendy Holden books I've read this was a similar tale of a down trodden hard working girl coming good in a world of glitz, glam and celebrity, achieving her dreams by the final chapter. I only rated this book a 3 because I felt that whilst it was an easy and enjoyable read it wasn't that great when compared to other Holden titles. Parts felt like a rehash of Simply Divine, Holden's debut novel, in fact I half expected Champagne D'Vyne to pop up. The other problem was the number of story strands made it hard to keep up or really feel any attachment to the characters by the end.
April 23, 2013
Despite being an OK and light read, there were, unfortunately, far too many plotlines and characters to follow that it was at times confusing, especially as there was a tendency to jump around timeline-wise when trying to have these plotlines happen at around the same time.
January 28, 2013
I normally love Wendy Holden's books but this was slow and really dull. I didn't really care about more than 1 character and the whole thing just dragged on and on with a small plot. One good bit in the middle but really such a shame.
February 28, 2013
I got this book on a discounted shelf and though it was a light read. I found it overall disappointing, story was predictable, non inventive, and overall characters you could not warm to. I recommend you do not waste your time on this book.
July 30, 2013
It was an "ok" book. I found it tough to follow, too many character lines, took too long to tie them all together. The last 1/3 of the book was when it started to get interesting and then it was done.
October 5, 2010
An OKish chick lit - a bit saucy in places - would be a perfect beach read.
August 28, 2011
This book was highly predictable and though entertaining at times, mostly I just wanted it to end.
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