Mr. Maybe : A Novel

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Summary: AWESOME
Review: YOU SIMPLY CAN'T PUT THIS BOOK DOWN. IT'S JUST AS GOOD AS "SEX IN THE CITY" BUT WITH A BRITISH FLAIR.

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Summary: Fantastic, easy read.... I Laughed out loud!
Review: Be prepared for many sleepless nights...you won't want to stop reading! I absolutely loved this book, I randomly read an excerpt from a Jane Green Book in a magazine and loved it, so I went searching for others, this was the second of her books I read and could barely put it down! Mr Maybe is a book which questions what you believe about love....breaks the back of sterotypes and provides strong, independent feminine archetypes who show us that women can carve out their own place in this world and still believe in "The One." I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to laugh, cry, and belive in true love.

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Summary: Better than Bridget Jones!
Review: After falling in love with Bridget Jones, I read every other novel about single Londoners that I could get my hands on. I have been disapointed by all of them. But this book was even BETTER than BJ. The main character is so likable! Even though she makes some bad decisions, I still loved her. You will not be disappointed in this novel.

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Summary: Thumbs WAYYYYYYYY Down
Review: What a silly little story. I didn't like it. I like Sophie Kinsella's stuff better. BOO!

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Summary: We're only in it for the money
Review: Well from well paid hack at the Daily Express to very well paid hack churning out chick lit, this woman's talent knows no beginning.

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Summary: not her best...
Review: if you haven't read any of jane green's novels, do not start with this one. i am a fan of jane green (highly recommend "good in bed") but mr. maybe fell short by ALL standards. the plot started dragging 2/3 into the book and the subject matter is not even funny. jane green introduces us to libby, a 28 y.o. single, career oriented girl/woman facing relationship problems and insecurities that we can all identify with... that is during the first 5 chapters of the book. then libby suddenly becomes a TOTALLY insecure and annoying little girl who is willing to sacrifice her entire happiness with someone she cannot even stand ("the sex is crap," cannot stand the smell of him, does not "fancy" him and he annoys her!) but he has money and seems to be in love with her (although it is obvious he wants to change her into a stay-at-home-have-dinner-ready wife). jane green spends the better half of the novel painfully detailing how miserable this guy makes libby, which only serves to emphasize libby's weakness (as a character in the novel and as a woman) complete lack of self-esteem, of integrity and appeal. i hope that no woman who reads this book can really identify with the libby we see in the middle chapters of this novel! it is insulting. i loved the libby of the first 5 or so chapters and the last 3 chapters. a libby trying not to fall in love with "mr. maybe" but failing. a libby that we can all cheer on. however, the libby who goes after mr. totally-wrong-from-a-mile-away simply because he is rich and brings her flowers doesn't really deserve the better half of the novel... "mr. maybe" was definitely a complete disappointment. i am glad this was not my first jane green novel or i doubt i would have ever picked up another one of her books.

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Summary: Did you read the same book I just did?
Review: Selfish- Her best friend is going through a real marriage crisis, the same girl who is there for all of Libby's ridiculous, childish drama, and she feels she HAS to be there for her friend, although she is having her own boy trouble and really wants to get through the "how are you doing" so they can talk about what's really important, Libby and her boy problems. The epitome of "with friends like that, who needs enemies".

Needy and Pathetic-keeps talking about not falling in love with a boy who is all wrong for her, by saving every other sentence, not that I'm in love with him, making it obvious, she is in love with him, but doesn't want to be because he's poor. Bringing us to...

Gold Digging B-The man she does "love" and does end up saying "YES" to a marriage proposal, she practically can't stand the sight, sound, or anything of. But, hey he's rich so how can she say no.

UGH, she is pathetic, whinney, needy, annoying, and incredibly shallow. There seems to be no character growth, just a personality of someone you would NEVER want in your life.

Sorry, but I prefer reading about people I can cheer for, someone with some redeeming qualities, or at least grows into that.

HOW, JUST HOW, so many people enjoyed this is truly a mystery to me.

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Summary: USE LIBBY'S APPROACH TO DATING
Review: Cute novel about a woman named Libby, who is basically confused between two men (Can't we all relate???). The question is should she go after whom she thinks she loves or who people feel she should love.

I must say, I gave the novel only 3 stars because I truly feel the plot started to drag 3/4 of the way through the book. It became very predictable.

All in all, it was a nice read and I am sure many others would agree.

Happy reading!!!!

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Summary: The old question: What women want ?
Review: The story is enjoyable but I didn't like the "heroin", Libby, that sounded more like a vilain. Can someone explain why men will fall for a size 12 woman (fat), don't know how to cook, shop only designer clothes, is an orgasm demanding [...] who expects her man to be perfect (handsome, rich, caring, funny, etc) while she is not even an oil painting beauty, throphy woman material?
I wished that at the end she didn't get any guy. Continue being single, pay for her designer clothes with her meager salary of PR or borrow from dad. No wonder guys are commitmentphobic nowadays. What can he earns by dating a designer clothes lover who can barely cook, is [...] like that? No wonder guys will rather go out with the boys. With women like that, it is much more preferable to continue being single or have flings only with [...] like that. Though Ed went through a heartache, believe, it is much better being single that being snatched by a woman like that.


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Summary: Loved it!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I don't know why some of the others didn't like, I thought it was a great book. It was highly amusing and cute. This was very true to the Brit Chick-lit style and if you like Brit Chick Lit, like Bridget Jones' Diary, Fourplay, Babyville, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and any Marion Keyes stuff, you'll like this.