Three Kisses

Rating:
Summary: Confusing and disappointing
Review: I always enjoy finding great new authors, then I read anything by them I can get my hands on. Cait London will not be one of these authors. Reading this book made me anxious. The dialogue was cluttered and almost unintelligible. Yet beyond the actual reading experience, I really did not enjoy the characters. And by saying I did not enjoy the characters, I mean all of the lead female characters. The bulk of the women were mean, catty and dare I say thoroughly unloveable. Their supposed deep and everlasting friendship with one another was impressed upon the reader so insistently and frequently that it began not to mean anything. The male characters were a bit more approachable but I could not imagine what they could possibly see in the female characters. The actual plot of The Club that supposedly ran the small town in the book was poorly executed and the conclusion of the novel poorly devised. What is the point of reading a love story when there does not seem to be any love. All I needed to sell me on this novel was a understanding of what made these two people love each other, unfortunately both I and the novel came up short.

Rating:
Summary: Three kisses, 5 stars
Review: I have read the Reviews so far and I must say that I do not agree with the low rating given. The story is NOT a simple contemporary love story so if you are looking for that this indeed is not the book for you. However, if you like a love story which also tells a about friendship between women, great side characters with love stories of their own and a story which is not only about boy gets girl(or vice versa) this is a great read. Personaly I like to read a bit more than 'just'a love story.

Rating:
Summary: It's a Good One!
Review: I have to say that I'm with the people who listed this as a great read! This is my first Cait London book and will definitely not be my last. I enjoyed the heroine--she had strength and drive. One reviewer complained that a strong woman wouldn't have been married to an abusive husband for ten years. I think that strong women can be just as easily deceived by another's character as anyone else. I found Cloe to be completely believable. I think this is a great book. A complicated, interesting plot, and deep, but not sappy emotions between the lead characters. Plus, Michael sounds yummy. My kind of novel! Enjoy!

Rating:
Summary: needs serious editing
Review: If you look for anything beyond simple story line, look elsewhere!

this book is a mad tangle of loose ends. There are characters introduced for no reason (a niece taking fingerprints off a spoon). There are bizarre facts tossed in for conveninece (Michael is the world's leading forensic expert on SHOES). This is an author who does not know how to juggle story lines, and she should stick to 3, not dozens. This is also an author who does not know how to write.

Rating:
Summary: needs serious editing
Review: If you look for anything beyond simple story line, look elsewhere!

this book is a mad tangle of loose ends. There are characters introduced for no reason (a niece taking fingerprints off a spoon). There are bizarre facts tossed in for conveninece (Michael is the world's leading forensic expert on SHOES). This is an author who does not know how to juggle story lines, and she should stick to 3, not dozens. This is also an author who does not know how to write.

Rating:
Summary: Actually I'd like to rate this a 3 and a 1/2...
Review: OK, so the problem with this book is not with the storyline, but with the writing style. I actually really enjoyed the story itself. However, being an English major, I found the grammatical errors throughout the book very distracting. And we're not just talking about typos here: she starts a sentence out in one tense and finishes it in another, or just seems to completely forget the entire purpose of the first half of the sentence altogether and says something completely different. London also has an annoying tendency to toss weather reports into the middle of random sentences. The story really was interesting though, so if you are able to overlook grammar issues then pick this one up and give it a try!

Rating:
Summary: A Great Read
Review: Readers beware : this book is not the laugh-a-minute book the back blurb implies. It is, in fact, a well-written book. The story is poignant and the main characters so well-drawn I couldn't help but to keep turning the pages long into the night.

One complain though, I think the other two girls deserve their own book instead of having their story rushed to their endings in this book. They are nice people, surely they deserve their own story, Ms Logan! :)

Rating:
Summary: It's a Good One!
Review: The writing in the beginning of this novel was so awkward that I got a headache. There was also too much information fed to the reader at once. Eventually, the style improved, but I can't say the same for the main characters. They took too long to learn how to communicate.

The heroine was inconsistent. She was strong and independent -- yet she had been married to a verbally abusive husband for more than a decade.

Also, this book alternated between "funky humor" and drama -- sometimes melodrama. It was at its best when it portrayed the relationships between Cloe and her old friends. It was at its worst when it portrayed the central romance and the machinations of the evil cabal that controls the town.

I gave this book a D+ at All About Romance.

Rating:
Summary: drove me crazy
Review: This was the worst book I have ever read.
As an author, Ms London should have been ashamed of how poorly her work was edited and reviewed. It was full of mistakes on the part of both the author and the editor (typographical, grammatical, character development, plot progression). I rarely liked any of the characters except for brief scenes in which they behaved out of character... I did not believe the plot machinations. I did not believe the "club" was scary or should be taken as such a threat. It was from start to finish a horrid book.