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Tanto lui non mi piaceva nemmeno
Vedere il futuro. È questo il dono speciale che Cassandra possiede fin da piccola. Mai avrebbe immaginato che le sue doti divinatorie sarebbero diventate un vero e proprio lavoro. Invece, dalle prime consulenze alle zie in cerca di lumi sulle loro pene d'amore, all'affidamento di una rubrica su un giornale in qualità di veggente, il passo è stato breve.
Il fatto è che Cassandra è infallibile, i suoi pronostici sono azzeccati al cento per cento, non sbaglia un colpo neppure con le persone che le sono più care, ma non è così brava quando si tratta dei propri affari di cuore. Di conseguenza la sua vita sentimentale è disastrosa, e l¿unica consolazione che le rimane è liquidare i fallimenti con la frase di rito: "Tanto lui non mi piaceva nemmeno". I suoi successi professionali vanno di pari passo con i fiaschi amorosi, fino a quando viene chiamata a lavorare in uno show televisivo dove incontra un fascinoso produttore, e con lui nei paraggi Cassandra non è più in grado di vedere nulla...
Dopo il successo di Ricordami ancora... perché ho bisogno di un uomo?, Claudia Carroll racconta con verve irresistibile le avventure tragicomiche di una ragazza alle prese con gli alti e bassi dell'amore. Tanto lui non mi piaceva nemmeno è una commedia romantica e divertente in cui il sentimento si intreccia con lo humour, dando vita a una galleria di personaggi e situazioni esilaranti.
Il fatto è che Cassandra è infallibile, i suoi pronostici sono azzeccati al cento per cento, non sbaglia un colpo neppure con le persone che le sono più care, ma non è così brava quando si tratta dei propri affari di cuore. Di conseguenza la sua vita sentimentale è disastrosa, e l¿unica consolazione che le rimane è liquidare i fallimenti con la frase di rito: "Tanto lui non mi piaceva nemmeno". I suoi successi professionali vanno di pari passo con i fiaschi amorosi, fino a quando viene chiamata a lavorare in uno show televisivo dove incontra un fascinoso produttore, e con lui nei paraggi Cassandra non è più in grado di vedere nulla...
Dopo il successo di Ricordami ancora... perché ho bisogno di un uomo?, Claudia Carroll racconta con verve irresistibile le avventure tragicomiche di una ragazza alle prese con gli alti e bassi dell'amore. Tanto lui non mi piaceva nemmeno è una commedia romantica e divertente in cui il sentimento si intreccia con lo humour, dando vita a una galleria di personaggi e situazioni esilaranti.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published September 10, 2007
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Claudia Carroll
42 books454 followersClaudia was born in Dublin and is a graduate of UCD, the College of Music and of the Gaiety School of Acting. Since then she has worked extensively as an actress on the Irish stage, but is probably best known for her role as TV’s Nicola Prendergast in the long running Dublin soap opera, ‘Fair City.’
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April 9, 2010
My thoughts: I ordered this book because the cute cover and the funny title have caught my eye and after having read the blurb I couldn't wait to read it as it sounded original and cute.
Unfortunately the novel did not live up to my expectations, which considering that we are talking about chick lit weren't that high or unrealistic: I just wanted a cute, funny well-written story.
I Never Fancied Him Anyway didn't deliver. The characterisations are flat, the characters are shallow, 2D, clichéd, and because of the strict stereotypisation irritating. The protagonist Cassie is a lukewarm character: everybody loves her, she is described as pretty, and yet she doesn't have any character, substance. She is a washed up shadow of a character, even after 400something pages (written in the 1st person!) you don't feel like you know her. The hero/love interest isn't that much present in the novel, he has maybe 3-4 scenes tops. The supporting characters, Cassie's friends can be summed up in these few words: there is the rich-daddy's-girl-trust-fund-babe, the ecological-conscient-Amnesty-International-jeans-wearing-no-make-up-girl and the required gay-guy-friend. Each one of them is predictable and a dull stereotype.
The plot was fabricated and forced, no real twists or obstacles stood in the way of the H/H, and dragging out this suffering for no believable reason for 400pages was excruciating and irritating.
Claudia Carroll tries to make her novel and characters funny, but she tries too hard and thus makes it forced and unnatural.
Verdict: I really wanted to like and enjoy this novel, but I just couldn't and it was not for lack of trying. I'm not sure I will pick up another Claudia Carroll novel in the future. If you're looking for a funny, cute and entertaining chick lit, pick up anything by Melissa Nathan (The Nanny and The Learning Curve are especially wonderful!), or Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella or Sammy's Hill by Kristin Gore, they are all better choices than I Never Fancied Him Anyway.
Plot: 3/10
Characters: 3/10
Ending: 5/10
Writing: 6/10
Cover: 9/10
Unfortunately the novel did not live up to my expectations, which considering that we are talking about chick lit weren't that high or unrealistic: I just wanted a cute, funny well-written story.
I Never Fancied Him Anyway didn't deliver. The characterisations are flat, the characters are shallow, 2D, clichéd, and because of the strict stereotypisation irritating. The protagonist Cassie is a lukewarm character: everybody loves her, she is described as pretty, and yet she doesn't have any character, substance. She is a washed up shadow of a character, even after 400something pages (written in the 1st person!) you don't feel like you know her. The hero/love interest isn't that much present in the novel, he has maybe 3-4 scenes tops. The supporting characters, Cassie's friends can be summed up in these few words: there is the rich-daddy's-girl-trust-fund-babe, the ecological-conscient-Amnesty-International-jeans-wearing-no-make-up-girl and the required gay-guy-friend. Each one of them is predictable and a dull stereotype.
The plot was fabricated and forced, no real twists or obstacles stood in the way of the H/H, and dragging out this suffering for no believable reason for 400pages was excruciating and irritating.
Claudia Carroll tries to make her novel and characters funny, but she tries too hard and thus makes it forced and unnatural.
Verdict: I really wanted to like and enjoy this novel, but I just couldn't and it was not for lack of trying. I'm not sure I will pick up another Claudia Carroll novel in the future. If you're looking for a funny, cute and entertaining chick lit, pick up anything by Melissa Nathan (The Nanny and The Learning Curve are especially wonderful!), or Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella or Sammy's Hill by Kristin Gore, they are all better choices than I Never Fancied Him Anyway.
Plot: 3/10
Characters: 3/10
Ending: 5/10
Writing: 6/10
Cover: 9/10
May 29, 2024
This book was so hilarious and romantic! I just adore Cassandra's character and her friendship with Jo. Some of the characters got on my nerves, but the author knew how to get the good side out of them, unless they're Oliver.
August 5, 2025
Amazing. I literally couldn't put it down.
Although the story might seem a little crazy at first, Cassie's psychic abilities add meaning and depth to the plot.
Great supporting characters, with loving friendships and amazing banter.
It all felt very natural, like the author really just wrote the book for herself and without pushing for attention.
I actually didn't know this author before, just picked up this book in an old-looking bookshop in Ireland.
I can say I'm 99% happy and grateful to have fallen on it.
The only thing I disagree with is that one of the main focuses of the book is all the characters' love lives and how important it is to find a partner.
But this doesn't diminish the charm of the story at all.
I've read previous reviews saying that the characters are too stereotypical and the story kinda.. boring, I don't agree so I guess it depends on where you're from.
Although the story might seem a little crazy at first, Cassie's psychic abilities add meaning and depth to the plot.
Great supporting characters, with loving friendships and amazing banter.
It all felt very natural, like the author really just wrote the book for herself and without pushing for attention.
I actually didn't know this author before, just picked up this book in an old-looking bookshop in Ireland.
I can say I'm 99% happy and grateful to have fallen on it.
The only thing I disagree with is that one of the main focuses of the book is all the characters' love lives and how important it is to find a partner.
But this doesn't diminish the charm of the story at all.
I've read previous reviews saying that the characters are too stereotypical and the story kinda.. boring, I don't agree so I guess it depends on where you're from.
February 15, 2017
So I'm going to get right to it: I was disappointed and had a difficult time rating this book. I wavered between two and three stars (it was my Valentine's Day read this year and I'm feeling generous) and I'll tell you why. The characters were just so hard to like, except maybe Jo, Cassie's roommate and best friend. Cassie, the psychic protagonist, was overall spineless and hardly ever made it through a sentence without saying, "Emm..." I just wanted to reach into the book and shake her. It drives me nuts when a character is so unsure of herself. And if that wasn't annoying me, Cassie's other best friend Charlene was making me want to slap some one -- mainly, her. She's so one-dimensional, conceited, self-absorbed, and predictable. Almost everything that came out of her mouth was ridiculously shallow. In addition, and to a lesser degree, "Marc with a c" was also an annoyance. Could he be more of a stereotypical gay man? Ugh. He was so "flat."
Well, those are my main complaints, and I just had to get them off my chest. Otherwise, the book was an easy read and some parts were entertaining. I don't regret spending my time reading it.
Well, those are my main complaints, and I just had to get them off my chest. Otherwise, the book was an easy read and some parts were entertaining. I don't regret spending my time reading it.
August 26, 2009
This is a somewhat typical chic lit book, but with a twist that does set it apart a little bit: The female protagonist, Cassie, is psychic. Ever since she was a small child, she gets flashes of things that will happen in the future, to herself or to people around her. She works for a magazine in Dublin, where she has an advice column, and she has a tight circle of friends. Cassie, or Cassandra, has never been really, really in love, or that is at least the catchphrase she tends to use when she breaks up from a relationship - "I never fancied him anyway".
One of her best friends finds a new boyfriend, a TV producer. She decides that this is the guy she's going to marry before she turns 30 - and the time schedule is pretty tight. Only Cassie has a vision that tells her that this is in face the right guy for Cassie. Cassie plans to avoid the guy so as not to come between best friend and boyfriend, but when best friend decides to be Cassies agent, and convinces Cassie to go on Breakfast Club, a morning TV program produced by best friend's boyfriend, suddenly things starts to get really difficult.
I really liked this book. It was a light read, entertaining, I could really relate to most of what the main character was going through. I've ordered another book by this writer.
One of her best friends finds a new boyfriend, a TV producer. She decides that this is the guy she's going to marry before she turns 30 - and the time schedule is pretty tight. Only Cassie has a vision that tells her that this is in face the right guy for Cassie. Cassie plans to avoid the guy so as not to come between best friend and boyfriend, but when best friend decides to be Cassies agent, and convinces Cassie to go on Breakfast Club, a morning TV program produced by best friend's boyfriend, suddenly things starts to get really difficult.
I really liked this book. It was a light read, entertaining, I could really relate to most of what the main character was going through. I've ordered another book by this writer.
April 11, 2014
Picked this up to read because I liked the cover (I do this often). This was a cute and fun story. Cassie is a psychic and not the gazing into crystal ball type. She gets flashes of information. She uses her gift to write a column for a magazine where she answers reader’s questions. Cassie’s a huge procrastinator and always puts everything to the last minute, especially her work. Cassie’s best friend Charlene happens to be spoiled and rich (really her dad has money). Charlene gets Cassie a job on TV to show off her psychic abilities. The only problem is Cassie’s gift does not work when she is around Jack, her new crush and Charlene’s new love. Charlene seems to be in love with Jack, Cassie gets visions of herself with Jack and Jack doesn’t seem to realize he’s dating Charlene. The worst part was the “documentary” Oliver was making about Cassie. Interested in reading more of her books.
November 6, 2011
2.5 stars. i liked the main character, cassie. and the psychic flashes in the book and how she helped people (and the energy cleaning scene was very well done!). but her friends were contrived stereotypes - the snobby rich girl, the uber-pc feminist, and the gay gym instructor. in real life, i can't see any of them actually being friends, as they were all too extreme in their cliched roles. overall it's a nice story of friendship and love and ultimately happiness, but it wasn't very riveting and seemed a bit amateurish (how many chick lit books actually make a reference to things that happen 'in chick lit'?). might or might not read something else from this author.
October 26, 2014
4.5 ☆☆☆☆
I bought this book and started reading right away, yet it took ages to finish ...
but that was because I was stuck studying , not because I didn't like the story, as I actually loved it.
It was sweet, funny and really well-written.
I also loved the Tarot cards at the begining of each chapter, their significance and linkage to the story's events.
loved the ending style as well.
It would make a perfect chick-flick movie, and God knows I love those.
This was my first read of Claudia Carroll's novels, but certainly won't be the last.
I bought this book and started reading right away, yet it took ages to finish ...
but that was because I was stuck studying , not because I didn't like the story, as I actually loved it.
It was sweet, funny and really well-written.
I also loved the Tarot cards at the begining of each chapter, their significance and linkage to the story's events.
loved the ending style as well.
It would make a perfect chick-flick movie, and God knows I love those.
This was my first read of Claudia Carroll's novels, but certainly won't be the last.
May 23, 2018
Cute, light, chick lit.
Also full of character stereotypes- the gay guy, the rich socialite, the environmentalist... This group of people could be friends only in books. And the fact that they are in the late 20's with behavior like this. I don't this so.
I could live without heroine emmmm.. always emmm that emmm this.... How flustered all the time you have to be....After tenth time I'm over it.
It was fun to read book written more the ten years ago. Fells like more. And the references oh boy.
Also full of character stereotypes- the gay guy, the rich socialite, the environmentalist... This group of people could be friends only in books. And the fact that they are in the late 20's with behavior like this. I don't this so.
I could live without heroine emmmm.. always emmm that emmm this.... How flustered all the time you have to be....After tenth time I'm over it.
It was fun to read book written more the ten years ago. Fells like more. And the references oh boy.
July 22, 2015
Wieder ein Buch vom Typ grandiose erste Hälfte, schrecklicher Schluss..
Anfangs fand ich das Buch herzerwärmend und zuckersüß, aber dann driftet es mehr und mehr in eine verrückte Dreiecksgeschichte ab, was mir den Spaß eindeutig verdorben hat. Außerdem waren alle Nebenfiguren wandelnde Klischees, fast so, als hätte sich die Autorin mit der zugegebenermaßen umwerfenden Protagonistin so verausgabt, dass sie keine Kraft mehr für die anderen Figuren hatte.
Anfangs fand ich das Buch herzerwärmend und zuckersüß, aber dann driftet es mehr und mehr in eine verrückte Dreiecksgeschichte ab, was mir den Spaß eindeutig verdorben hat. Außerdem waren alle Nebenfiguren wandelnde Klischees, fast so, als hätte sich die Autorin mit der zugegebenermaßen umwerfenden Protagonistin so verausgabt, dass sie keine Kraft mehr für die anderen Figuren hatte.
May 17, 2019
I started an account just to have a chance to air out my issues with this book.
I LOVE to read and I can usually grant quite a bit of leeway to a novel. But this story line was just over the top.
Here are my main issues with this book.... may contain spoilers
1. More than the main question of why anyone would be friends with Charlene, is the question of why Cassie would let her call the shots in her life. She just up and decided that she is going to run her career and Cassie is totally fine with it... What?!?
2. On the topic of Charlene... She seriously dates Jack for about a weekend. And dated is even a strong word for their relationship. Yet she is completely ready to end her friendship with Cassie because they had dinner together a couple of times. What's worse is how awful Cassie feels about it. OMG... It hurts my brain just thinking about what a scene it caused.
3. I was so irritated at the end when Marc with a C (annoying to read 100 times) told Cassie the he thinks they should both just leave Jack alone. Oh, ok! So because Charlene can't have him Cassie shouldn't get a chance either?. I don't think so!
4.The best part of this book was when Cassie did the clearing in the haunted house. Beautiful scene that I couldn't get enough of. Why couldn't the whole book be written that well?
5.Why could Cassie never speak her mind to try to save her career? Was it totally acceptable for her to just sit there and look stupid because she didn't want to give anyone bad news? Couldn't she just word the bad vision in a different way to soften the edges a bit? Did all of the callers truly think that their future would only be bright and nothing bad would happen? You would think that if they took the time to call, or write, that they would want to know what was going on and not just hear some vague version of the good things. There were so many time where she was sitting on the show just saying "Emmm...mmm...errr" that I wanted to scream! Get out of your head and say what you're thinking!
Ok, I think that's it, I will get off of my soapbox now. If you have made it this far, thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts. I really wanted to like this book, but it never developed into anything.
I LOVE to read and I can usually grant quite a bit of leeway to a novel. But this story line was just over the top.
Here are my main issues with this book.... may contain spoilers
1. More than the main question of why anyone would be friends with Charlene, is the question of why Cassie would let her call the shots in her life. She just up and decided that she is going to run her career and Cassie is totally fine with it... What?!?
2. On the topic of Charlene... She seriously dates Jack for about a weekend. And dated is even a strong word for their relationship. Yet she is completely ready to end her friendship with Cassie because they had dinner together a couple of times. What's worse is how awful Cassie feels about it. OMG... It hurts my brain just thinking about what a scene it caused.
3. I was so irritated at the end when Marc with a C (annoying to read 100 times) told Cassie the he thinks they should both just leave Jack alone. Oh, ok! So because Charlene can't have him Cassie shouldn't get a chance either?. I don't think so!
4.The best part of this book was when Cassie did the clearing in the haunted house. Beautiful scene that I couldn't get enough of. Why couldn't the whole book be written that well?
5.Why could Cassie never speak her mind to try to save her career? Was it totally acceptable for her to just sit there and look stupid because she didn't want to give anyone bad news? Couldn't she just word the bad vision in a different way to soften the edges a bit? Did all of the callers truly think that their future would only be bright and nothing bad would happen? You would think that if they took the time to call, or write, that they would want to know what was going on and not just hear some vague version of the good things. There were so many time where she was sitting on the show just saying "Emmm...mmm...errr" that I wanted to scream! Get out of your head and say what you're thinking!
Ok, I think that's it, I will get off of my soapbox now. If you have made it this far, thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts. I really wanted to like this book, but it never developed into anything.
November 27, 2024
Not what I expected at all which goes to show I should have read reviews before buying books on sale.
Love this cover. Loved the idea. Hated the execution.
Light, shallow, Chicklit Beach Read. Will appeal to readers who like to read about how the rich live, who dream of designer handbags, and wish they had a friend group full of people about as deep as a rain puddle on the sidewalk.
Cassandra (get it? The Greek reference? Isn't this so clever! HAHA) writes a Lonely Hearts column because of her psychic powers that she can turn on like a light switch.
Be sure to get a laugh out of the repeated use of the Dragon Lady racist reference (rolls eyes) because their boss wants them to actually produce the work they get paid for.
As a former journalist, it is just a fact that if you didn't meet deadline you would have been fired the first week. Cassie and her buddy, Charlene, would never have been tolerated by a magazine or a newspaper. They would have been chunked out on their ass in about five minutes.
This looks like a publisher-pushed book. Personally, don't waste your time. I imagine they'll have to find a real writer to do the screenplay because this book produces nothing clever or romantic.
BTW notice how the book description here and on Amazon US gives ZERO information about the book itself and pushes the merit of the author? It's because the book has nothing substantial to promote.
Love this cover. Loved the idea. Hated the execution.
Light, shallow, Chicklit Beach Read. Will appeal to readers who like to read about how the rich live, who dream of designer handbags, and wish they had a friend group full of people about as deep as a rain puddle on the sidewalk.
Cassandra (get it? The Greek reference? Isn't this so clever! HAHA) writes a Lonely Hearts column because of her psychic powers that she can turn on like a light switch.
Be sure to get a laugh out of the repeated use of the Dragon Lady racist reference (rolls eyes) because their boss wants them to actually produce the work they get paid for.
As a former journalist, it is just a fact that if you didn't meet deadline you would have been fired the first week. Cassie and her buddy, Charlene, would never have been tolerated by a magazine or a newspaper. They would have been chunked out on their ass in about five minutes.
This looks like a publisher-pushed book. Personally, don't waste your time. I imagine they'll have to find a real writer to do the screenplay because this book produces nothing clever or romantic.
BTW notice how the book description here and on Amazon US gives ZERO information about the book itself and pushes the merit of the author? It's because the book has nothing substantial to promote.
April 5, 2020
I've been reading this book on & off for a couple of weeks since we've been on lockdown. I've been struggling with the contents throughout. In some chapters Ive been momentarily gripped. On others I've felt I was going to toss the book to the wayside. I really had moments and thought should I give it up as a defeated effort. But I honestly wanted to give it a chance. So I continued with reluctance.
It's only really become a novel worthy of a review now I'm getting to chapter eighteen and nearing the end.
I've had this book for a few years and have only felt the urge to read. I've read some other books I've had for the same length of time and found them so luring I hadn't put them down.
Unfortunately I can't say the same on this occasion,
This book if it'd been condensed into a shorter story and may have been more enticing. Sorry to be a bah humbug but it's so long winded.!!!!!!!
It's only really become a novel worthy of a review now I'm getting to chapter eighteen and nearing the end.
I've had this book for a few years and have only felt the urge to read. I've read some other books I've had for the same length of time and found them so luring I hadn't put them down.
Unfortunately I can't say the same on this occasion,
This book if it'd been condensed into a shorter story and may have been more enticing. Sorry to be a bah humbug but it's so long winded.!!!!!!!
August 17, 2025
Very funny. Cassandra is a delightful woman blessed with a group of close friends and a "gift". Ever since she was a little girl she would get "flashes" and they are never wrong. But they are not available on command. Which is how she fell into her current job as a columnist at the Daily Tattler. I really like her and most of her supporting characters, except for Charlene, a trust fund baby, who is a spoiled, selfish drama queen. Not sure why these friends keep her in their group, except that they have known her since before her mother died. And she finally does a good deed for Cassandra by claiming she is her agent and getting her a gig at a morning show. But there are ulterior motives that interfere with Cassie's "flash" that the TV producer, that Charlene has claimed as her boyfriend, is destined for Cassie. I enjoyed it.
February 17, 2019
A blatant ripoff of the popular and better written Bridget Jones series. Absolutely vapid, one dimensional characters populate this book purportedly set in Dublin but could be anywhere.
The characters are whiny, fairly immature women whose only thought is men. The main character treats her magazine job shabbily and has no work ethic, always scampering off to bars to meet her friends in their imagined white girl,
crisis.
Extremely dated, the author refers to pop personalities which have long lost their luster, such as referring to the slimy Simon Cowell as metrosexual.
The author started every chapter with a tarot card, however, the information given was how the tarot relates to singles and became very boring after a few chapters.
Cannot recommend this novel. Best to avoid.
The characters are whiny, fairly immature women whose only thought is men. The main character treats her magazine job shabbily and has no work ethic, always scampering off to bars to meet her friends in their imagined white girl,
crisis.
Extremely dated, the author refers to pop personalities which have long lost their luster, such as referring to the slimy Simon Cowell as metrosexual.
The author started every chapter with a tarot card, however, the information given was how the tarot relates to singles and became very boring after a few chapters.
Cannot recommend this novel. Best to avoid.
May 2, 2021
I really enjoyed this book.
I have read a few psychic books where there are murders happening all over and the psychic is keeping her gifts hidden as she scoffs at being believed. I have read a few where they are tortured souls and struggle with their visions. This one was refreshingly different.
Cassie has always had a gift and everyone around her is always asking her for help.
It starts off her as s 7 year old seeing matches for her mom's friend.
It goes on to her being a psychic advice aunt in a magazine a later a call in host at a live chat show.
I liked this handling.
Cassie ,Charlene, Marc with a C were all chaacters that were totally overboard and entertaining.
All in all a fun read
I have read a few psychic books where there are murders happening all over and the psychic is keeping her gifts hidden as she scoffs at being believed. I have read a few where they are tortured souls and struggle with their visions. This one was refreshingly different.
Cassie has always had a gift and everyone around her is always asking her for help.
It starts off her as s 7 year old seeing matches for her mom's friend.
It goes on to her being a psychic advice aunt in a magazine a later a call in host at a live chat show.
I liked this handling.
Cassie ,Charlene, Marc with a C were all chaacters that were totally overboard and entertaining.
All in all a fun read
October 6, 2020
A random selection from a Barnes & Noble trip. I was attracted to the witty title and then intrigued by the blurb on the back, and decided "what the hey." I am so glad I took a chance, because it was almost impossible to put this one down. The story is kinda odd. It's about a late twenty-something woman living in Dublin and working for a magazine answering "Dear Abby" type letters. Oh, yeah, and she's psychic. She can predict the future for everyone but herself. Her love life sucks, but her friends are awesome. And suddenly, the man of her dreams enters her life. Rather, her best friend's life. And hilarity ensues.
August 20, 2018
All in all, this was the perfect weekend beach read. I found myself getting irritated by the disregard of responsibility by the protagonist. She is a procrastinator, so that just bugged me (since I am not one). I enjoyed the friendship interactions, specifically between Charlene and Jo (diametrically opposite characters, but friends nonetheless). The humor and wit in this book comes at the reader non-stop. Which moves story along quickly.
One little reader nuisance: book needs more editing, too many mistakes that I kept encountering that distracted my reading of the novel.
One little reader nuisance: book needs more editing, too many mistakes that I kept encountering that distracted my reading of the novel.
February 16, 2019
What a lovely instance of magical realism! Unobtrusive, but added a new layer that created a unique premise.
Now, why Cassie remains friends with Chantal is a mystery to me, and it seems a bit sad that Marc with a C never escaped his C, but overall this was a fun read. I think I've been spoiled recently with chick-lit that actually promotes women though; there was very much an undertone here that everyone needs to be in a relationship to be happy, which isn't true.
Now, why Cassie remains friends with Chantal is a mystery to me, and it seems a bit sad that Marc with a C never escaped his C, but overall this was a fun read. I think I've been spoiled recently with chick-lit that actually promotes women though; there was very much an undertone here that everyone needs to be in a relationship to be happy, which isn't true.
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April 13, 2025This book is pure fluff and very heavily inspired by “Bridget Jones’s Diary”. Our characters are flatter than pancakes and spend most of their time nipping out of work to go soak themselves in alcohol. Every time a whiff of plot beyond drinking, finding a man, and missing deadlines appears, it is very intentionally avoided.
I have a great respect for silly books but was very much misled by this edition’s inexplicable choice for a cover, which was a complete tonal mismatch with the content.
I have a great respect for silly books but was very much misled by this edition’s inexplicable choice for a cover, which was a complete tonal mismatch with the content.
April 12, 2020
This is the epitome of chick-lit: a no substance, fairy-tale story of love, friendship, and career success. The trifecta of the genre. The main character is a psychic but lacks confidence and charisma, so I’m not certain how she ends up with it all at the end. This wasn’t a complete waste of my time, but I don’t recommend it.
June 3, 2020
Light-hearted and fun to bring some brightness into lockdown 2020. As I write that, I hope there won’t be a lockdown in any other year!
A clairvoyant gets herself into all sorts of pickles before ....... I’ll let you guess the rest, but it is entertaining. Not great literature, but some of the reviews here are too snarky by far. For every season, etc, etc.
A clairvoyant gets herself into all sorts of pickles before ....... I’ll let you guess the rest, but it is entertaining. Not great literature, but some of the reviews here are too snarky by far. For every season, etc, etc.
June 3, 2017
Tanto lui(il libro) non mi è piaciuto per niente...
Credevo che questo libro qualche sorriso me lo avrebbe strappato e invece nulla! Lettura noiosa , trama con qualche potenziale,per nulla sfruttato.
Io non sono molto esperta di questo tipo di letture (il chick lit), ma questa mi è sembrata veramente brutta!
Credevo che questo libro qualche sorriso me lo avrebbe strappato e invece nulla! Lettura noiosa , trama con qualche potenziale,per nulla sfruttato.
Io non sono molto esperta di questo tipo di letture (il chick lit), ma questa mi è sembrata veramente brutta!
June 30, 2017
Cute. Easy read. Enough twists. Clever dialogue. I liked Cassie Not enough of Dublin but still fun to read.
May 23, 2019
I’m normally a fast reader but this story I could not get into. It tried to be funny but wasn’t and could have been 1/2 the number of pages talk about drawn out ... not for me
June 11, 2020
I enjoyed reading about the psychic flashes. Parts were a bit predictable but an easy read.
September 19, 2022
I would have liked now fluttering and then getting to know each other sooner. Had great potential but wasn't quite"romantic" enough for me.
August 7, 2023
Perfect chicklit, a bit dragging towards the end, but had me chuckling throughout.
September 8, 2023
Piacevole romanzo da ombrellone
January 20, 2025
this was my first romance book i read back in 2008, still comes to mind every now and then.
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