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Summary: A Welcome Change of Pace
Review: I am glad to see I am not the only one who thought this book was bad. I listened to it on audio cassette and kept waiting for a plot to come along. I can't even imagine the author finding it at all interesting. I was expecting at least something of entertainment value having read a couple of her other books that were good.
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Summary: Scattered and incomplete
Review: I normally have lower standards for audio books but this book was so bad that I even noticed its badness listening to the audio version.The narrator goes on and on about how she hates her mother denying any love for her, yet she never gives any example of how this was done. Did her mom never come to her graduation...didn't take her to school the first day...what? Over and over she repeats the same line about denial of love, but never gives any example that would make us sympathize. The main character seems to be well-balanced otherwise and fairly compassionate, so it does not fit that her mother's very legitimate explanation does nothing to sway her hatred. BTB also throws in tons of subplots for no apparent reason and with no or weak resolution: - who inherits Lowell's? - why was the painter thrown in at the end? - why was the abused french girl there at all? Did she and Mike finally get together? (the convenient killing of the husband was a cop-out) - were the bosses' of these two slacker photojournalists really ok with them hanging around the south of france and New York for months and months without doing any work and keeping their jobs? Were they paid during this time? - what happened to the brother and fiance? - did the mom die? - did the Lowell's IPO happen? - did they ever finish the photo book? This book was incredibly sloppy and annoying.
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Summary: You're Kidding!!
Review: I read this book only because it was lent to me by an unfortunate person who was lumbered with it for Mothers Day. It was the only BTB book I've read since "Woman of Substance" and I fine it hard to believe that it was written by the same writer! The dialogue was unbelievably twee and some of it was out of a Victorian novel---the heroine calls her brother --Brother mine!!!!!Oh brother! I finished it because it was so bad that it was funny.
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Summary: Good Grief!
Review: Sorry, but I have to go with the majority on this one. First of all, it was one of the most unrealistic, cliche, and predictable novels I have ever read. The characters were so stereotypical and underdeveloped that not only could I not relate to them, I was actually sneering at them as I was reading it. As for "unrealistic", the plot with the grevious widow knowing all along that her husband was having an affair with Val and still managing to create a friendship with her just doesn't happen in reality. Many, many inconsistancies. There were no hurt or angry words, nothing we could relate to. And the mother-daughter relationship was just plain ridiculous. There was one chapter where Val's mother tells her the deep dark secret that she was never planned for and wanted(which was why her mother was so cold to her)and sounded like a bad B-movie script. The book is filled with unfinished and small underdeveloped storylines that never lead to anywhere. The part about Val taking over the family company is sooooooooo cliche that I almost expected it. The characters were rich, glamorous, and well-educated but that couldn't save them from the shallowness and dullness that engulfed them. They were either good or evil which was such a bore. Not worth it. No one wants to read a best-selling novel and feel empty in the end.
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Summary: Liked the Book
Review: This is the only book I have read written by Bradford.I enjoyed the book and recommend it to everyone.I plan to read more of BBB's books after reading this one.
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Summary: Was this a first draft?
Review: This is the only BTB novel I have read. I have to agree with the tone of most of the other reviewers that this was a waste of time and it is a wonder that a publisher actually read this and went ahead and published it. Was this a first draft that was written over a weekend and some how got to the publisher????
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Summary: Was this a first draft?
Review: This is the only BTB novel I have read. I have to agree with the tone of most of the other reviewers that this was a waste of time and it is a wonder that a publisher actually read this and went ahead and published it. Was this a first draft that was written over a weekend and some how got to the publisher????
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