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Summary: Great Summer Read
Review: How can a book about a cab driver in London be that interesting?? Well, when you are a female one that weaves a web between five lovers it does get a bit intriguing. As luck would have it Kathryn Cheet is that cab driver and this book is about her web of love and the cell phones that go along with it.She entered into the cab driving business when she was given her car upon a friend's death. She has five cell phones and the designated love interest each has one phone. This book has many twists and turns as she tries not to get into too many sticky situations (and believe me she gets into a few). It is interesting to see how she is going to get herself out of each situation. Kathryn is the type of person in life that should be despised, but in this book you just have to love her.
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Summary: Great chick book!
Review: I had great fun with this book! It's about a woman London cabbie and her adventures in keeping track of five lovers with five different colored cell phones. Super dynamics between Cheet and her lovers, plus a few interesting twists that will keep you guessing until the end. If I wasn't otherwise attached, I'd be tempted to give her lover juggling techniques a try! Again, a great, fun chick book!
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Summary: Great chick book!
Review: I had great fun with this book! It's about a woman London cabbie and her adventures in keeping track of five lovers with five different colored cell phones. Super dynamics between Cheet and her lovers, plus a few interesting twists that will keep you guessing until the end. If I wasn't otherwise attached, I'd be tempted to give her lover juggling techniques a try! Again, a great, fun chick book!
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Summary: Other people liked it
Review: I have to admit, Cheet was not one of my favorite books. It is one of those books where you keep waiting for something to happen (which is pretty much the only reason I finished it). The main character, Katherine, is a cab driver in London. She has 5 lovers (seems like an interesting premise doesn't it?) and a color coded cell phone for each lover (I can barely keep track of one cell phone, much less 5!). Actually, she gains a 6th lover during the course of the book, but he never gets his own cell phone. To me, all the characters seemed pretty whiny and needy. There was great potential for humor (I mean, come on, 6 different lovers?), but either I didn't get it, or there was none to be found. Each lover fell into a category (cute lesbian; handsome, young, black buck - probably gay; handsome, young, white buck - in trouble with the law; family man; and finally, scarred, troubled musician). The additional lover would fall into the "mystery man" category as we don't know much about him until the end of the book. Not only are none of these people particularly interesting, but all they seem to do is whine to Katherine about their sad lives, how little they see her, or how much they need (fill in the blank). That said, Katherine really isn't that interesting either. She seems to be sleeping with all these people to fullfill some deep seated psychological need, possibly her difficulties relating to her father, but it's hard to tell. In summary, my feeling is that this book had a lot of potential and didn't live up to it. I thought the book would be funny, but there weren't many amusing moments that I found. I suppose it's possible that I missed the point and Cheet was never supposed to be funny, but it could have at least been interesting.
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Summary: Surprisingly engaging novel about different kinds of love...
Review: I picked this up expecting a throwaway beach read; a quick lark of a book. I didn't expect to like a book about someone with five lovers - after all cheating is wrong, right?
Well, it turned out to be a wonderfully engaging read. The main character, who I expected to be a shallow gal who uses five lovers for her own gain, turns out to be a startlingly complex woman who cares deeply about each of her lovers. Kathryn Cheet is charmed by five very different people, and her process of growing and finding herself made me alternately laugh out loud and cry.
This is a surprise winner for the summer - light enough to bring to the beach, while complex enough to keep you turning the pages and thinking about the characters long after the last page.
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Summary: A good light read that builds in suspense
Review: I've often wondered about the logistics of bigamy. How, that is, does the average bigamist--not your Mormon extremist type whose wives all know the hubby's sleeping around, but the regular-seeming guy with a wife and kids in Schenectady and another family in Detroit--how does that guy keep it all straight, all the personal stuff you have to remember when you're part of a familial unit? Birthdays and anniversaries in the nuclear and extended families, which set of kids is playing which sports, spousal preferences of various sorts and what you've told to whom. It's hard enough for a faithful monogamist not to get the facts wrong. Kathryn Cheet, the protagonist of Anna Davis's Cheet, is not a bigamist, because she's not married. But she is managing--just--to keep six relationships going simultaneously. One secret of Kathryn's success is her clever use of multiple, color-coded cell phones--pink for Amy (Kathryn's one female lover), red for Jonny (her scarred musician), green for Richard (her serious guy, with daughter), and so on. Just as important for her success, Kathryn works driving a cab around London at night. Since she is always mobile and she doesn't have a radio in her car, Kathryn's lovers can only reach her by cell phone, and they never know where she will be at any particular time. Kathryn has even managed to keep the whereabouts of her apartment a secret from them--or, at least, from all but one of them. Not surprisingly, Kathryn's carefully compartmentalized world begins to fall apart in the course of Davis's novel. Evidently, you can only keep so many lovers in a single city before the worlds you've constructed with each of them begin to overlap. Anna Davis's book, at first merely light fare, builds in suspense and gravity as the pages pass, with the reader wondering whether Kathryn, an otherwise likable character, will ever stop torturing herself and those around her with her unlikely juggling act.
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Summary: Normally I wouldn't approve...
Review: of cheating, but Katherine makes it too funny. She has 6 lovers and 6 different colored cell phones to keep track of them. I wouldn't want to sit next to her in a restaraunt! There's Joel, the barely legal but oh-so-hottie she met at the gym; Johnny, the requisite bad boy who may or may not have a heart of gold below the shady exterior; and Amy, the lipstick lesbian who is convinced that Katherine needs to just come on out of the closet; as well as Richard the single dad and Stef the schemer always with a get rich quick plan, some legal some not. Now she's met Craig, will she have to get a new phone? Purple maybe? Some of her tactics (never let 'em know where you live and have a job where you're out and about - she's a London cabbie) start to wear thin and she starts worrying about one of her lovers running into another one, which turns out to be well founded. Can Katherine keep up the juggling act? Finding out is half the fun!
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Summary: You can't walk two (or even six) roads at once successfully
Review: Reading the back cover, you'd expect the book to be a perfect summer read: a fluffy bit of chick-lit featuring a take-charge British cab driver and her five, then six, lovers. Once you get into it, though, there are some surprisingly deep themes running through the work, from the morality of polyandry to the many well-springs of self-destructive behavior. The problem is that the book isn't even 300 pages, and the author tries to tackle too much while ostensibly keeping the whole within the realm of a decent summer read. Anna Davis should have stuck with keeping the book light and fun or should have made a go of a serious bit of fiction, but trying to do both leaves the reader with a sour taste at the end. I don't regret reading the book, but on the other hand it could have been much better.
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Summary: A pretty good read for the light-hearted
Review: This book features a slightly neurotic young woman cabbie in London who juggles her many lovers by using different colored cell phones. Each lover has their own sub-story and at times it gets difficult to keep them all straight. (Imagine how she must've felt!) The duration of the set-up of the characters was a bit long, but once I got to know each person individually, I found that I was hooked. It then kept me interested and wanting to know more. I liked following her journey to a more stable life, as she learned from each of her experiences. Overall, it's a good read for sitting by the pool or at the beach.
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Summary: I felt a bit cheated
Review: This book moves fast and just when you are sorting everyone (5 lovers) and many substories out it ends. It was a fun, summertime read however and the character, Kathryn Cheet redfines what it means to "cheat", and for that I would recommend it. I could see this book becoming a movie!
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