Rating:  Summary: Maybe I'm confused.... Review: Maybe it's my sense of humor? This book is a little on the dark side. I'm almost done with it and I'm enjoying the story but I'm definitely not laughing or smiling. It's a page turner. It's an interesting story, with a different writing style (very good), but I'm hardly laughing! In the beginning it was funny, but as the story continues at times I wonder if Sally is dellusional!? I can totally relate to her anxiety and worries but at the same time the whole God/Satan thing is either mental or serious (either way it's not a very funny topic, especially with drinking and driving, hit and runs, biting off tongues, etc!) Don't get me wrong - this is a great book. I'm giving it 3 stars because I can't really figure out why it's considered a romantic comedy. I guess the humor has been lost on me? Romance (yes a little bit). Comedy (eeh not so much.) Definitely pick this book up. It's an interesting page turner - but don't expect tons of laughs, or lol funny. (At least not from my experience!)
Rating:  Summary: Maybe I'm confused.... Review: Maybe it's my sense of humor? This book is a little on the dark side. I'm almost done with it and I'm enjoying the story but I'm definitely not laughing or smiling. It's a page turner. It's an interesting story, with a different writing style (very good), but I'm hardly laughing! In the beginning it was funny, but as the story continues at times I wonder if Sally is dellusional!? I can totally relate to her anxiety and worries but at the same time the whole God/Satan thing is either mental or serious (either way it's not a very funny topic, especially with drinking and driving, hit and runs, biting off tongues, etc!) Don't get me wrong - this is a great book. I'm giving it 3 stars because I can't really figure out why it's considered a romantic comedy. I guess the humor has been lost on me? Romance (yes a little bit). Comedy (eeh not so much.) Definitely pick this book up. It's an interesting page turner - but don't expect tons of laughs, or lol funny. (At least not from my experience!)
Rating:  Summary: Good Start; Bad Finish Review: McInnis can write and has some interesting things to say. I loved this book until Sally's tiresome questions about what "was right" and whether her boyfriend was the devil became a major bore. The storyline goes downhill then and ends with a thump. Sally is self-righteous, constantly passing judgement, yet has all the basic character flaws and then some, of a regular person. I tossed my copy. It wasn't worth passing onto someone else.
Rating:  Summary: a little depressing Review: Overall, I really enjoyed the book. Sally was a little disappointing. It seemed as though she was searching for unhappiness. I thought Jack was almost a dream come true. He was a little dark, but aren't all heroes. At the end of the book, I was hoping that Jack would walk around the corner. It was disappointing not to have a happily ever after.
Rating:  Summary: Help stamp out Catholic guilt! Review: The premise sounds amusing..is this handsome devil really The Devil? But far from being humorous it is really a dark piece of work. Sally is loaded with more guilt than one would find in ten confessionals. I really felt sad reading this so-called light summer reading. Poor Sally! She meets the man of her dreams and is then tormented by her happiness. We start hoping that this love affair will really work out and her misgivings are explainable. But, the ending is anticlimatic and the loose threads aren't tied up. Will someone please give Sally absoulution and let her go on with her life?
Rating:  Summary: Disappointing Review: The premise sounds interesting: is this tall, dark and handsome man that Sally has fallen so helplessly in love with really the Devil? However, McInnis has a disappointing way of delivering her book, and I felt unsatisfied with almost everything about it. Sally is a rather unlikeable character; she is irritating and is constantly comparing Jake to the devil. She is anything but faithful to her loyal and hurting boyfriend, and because I didn't like her, I found it hard to read the book at some points. I often skimmed through the pages, reading only the weak dialogue that McInnis writes. Loose ends weren't tied up [i.e. deaths, suspicious actions around Jake by other characters, etc...] and the end was unsatisfying and trite, much like something you would expect to see in a sappy love movie. Although a quick read and sometimes entertaining, it is more often than not boring and pretty stupid. I wanted to hit Sally upside the head and scream for her to LEAVE HIM ALREADY! But then again... I wanted to hit Sally for everything she did. And McInnis, too, for writing such a disappointing novel.
Rating:  Summary: with devil references symbolic of the of the soci Review: this book captures the nyc experience: trying to make it happen. written by a person steeped in the acting/television/production culture, this is a must-read for anyone who has been to ny, lived ny or wants to make the move to ny. it's very street. and sexy
Rating:  Summary: creepy Review: This book wasn't badly written It started off well-paced and the first part of the story was enjoyable. But the whole "devil" theme gave me the creeps and the ending was just stupid. I did finish it, mostly out of disbelief that this guy was really Satan, and I kept hoping that there would be some plot twist that would save the story. But, no, it just kept getting more weird and then it ended. I threw my copy in the trash, because I couldn't give it to anybody else and it was too creepy to keep in my house.
Rating:  Summary: Multiple many thumbs up! Review: This is perhaps one of the most gripping novels I have ever read in a long time. I couldn't put it down! I just don't know how to start - the pacing is perfect, for starters. In many books I get a little bored when it gets a bit draggy, but no, the pace here is fast, very fast. The merge between the humorous and the macabre is perfect.
Yes, macabre. This is a pretty dark book. This is one of those comedies that start of very trippy and happy at the start - and then it turns into something quite dark and disturbing at the end. But fear not: to me, it only adds credit to this novel. In fact, the transition is, I believe, very smooth.
The style is almost cinematic, I can actually imagine a lot of it played on the silver screen, so much so that I feel like shouting out loud "Is anyone making a movie out of this YET?". There are some really good images here, the melting ice cream on the streets, for one.
No book can actually be complete without making you think for a bit, and while this isn't what you'd call the canon of great literature, it does offer some interesting insight on the nature of how people understand religion. Sally is a very compelling character, and like the novel itself, a combination of adorably cute and disturbingly dark. A warning though: the story is told entirely from her point of view, so if you dislike her, you'll dislike the novel. I loved her, I loved the novel. Some readers have complained that there are loose ends in the novel, but I think that if that had been done it would have altered the point of the novel completely.
Rating:  Summary: Cute read but a little discomforting Review: When I picked up this book and read the jacket, I wasn't sure whether the reference to falling in love with the devil was literal or figurative. I was hoping it was metaphorically speaking, because I wasn't so ready for a satanic chick lit. I gave the book a shot and I THINK, after reading the book, it's literal. But I still am not sure!
I didn't find the heroine annoying like many other reviewers, but I was distraught that this dream guy really was supposed to be the devil. I kept hoping that he wasn't and that something in the end would explain all the strange, satanic events but nothing did! So yes, the ending pretty much sucked.. but everything else was good! (but again, strange and satanic)
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