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Summary: A Great Read!
Review: This is a great book for the post-college set. It makes you feel like all of the difficulties, confusion and other emotions that people this age encounter are normal. Definitely recommended!
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Summary: Red Dress Ink Could Do Better
Review: This is the best-written RDI book thus far, technically speaking. Unfortunately, it's also dull and completely devoid of conflict. Eve, the main character, has no problems until the plot makes them necessary. She gets any man she wants. Her job, while dull, is secure and well-paying. Her friends are fun and supportive. There are vague allusions to her having a desire to write, which later morphs into a desire to publish a magazine, but those are offhanded interludes between the endless drinking and parties she goes to. Frankly, it's just not interesting to read a 300 page book about a woman going out to dinner a lot.
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Summary: BEST twenty-something book I've read!
Review: This is the perfect book for the entry-level working woman in her twenties! It was funny and very entertaining. TWO THUMBS UP!
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Summary: Loved it! A great light-hearted read.
Review: This was a great book to read to escape from it all. I found it well written and full of spunk. The characters really spoke to me and I almost felt like I was reading a story about one of my girlfriends. Several times I found myself laughing outloud at the antics being described.Papa does a great job of capturing the feeling of confusion that ensues after college graduation. I throughly enjoyed being lost in Eve's world wondering what she was 'On the verge' of.
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Summary: On the Verge of Being a Great Book!
Review: Twenty-three-year-old college graduate Eve Vitali is always on the verge . . . of losing her job, gaining a new boyfriend, losing friends and gaining a new lifestyle. Working as an assistant to the editor of Bicycle Boy magazine, Eve lives with her parents in her native New Jersey and spends her nights on the town at trendy Manhattan clubs with her glamorous friend Tabitha. When Eve's old college roommate, Roseanne, comes to town, she persuades Eve to leave home. The two end up living together in Manhattan and, with Tabitha, spend their time scouting out guys, complaining about their dead-end jobs and partying. As Roseanne bemoans about her job in Finance, Tabitha moves from guy to guy while Eve starts a relationship with hunky new employee Rob King. However, as her job becomes stale and her relationship flounders, Eve realizes that for change to occur, she will have to take control of her life and make things happen. I enjoyed reading "On the Verge" because it was a fun, lighthearted novel about a girl coming of age after college--something to which I can relate. Author Ariella Papa richly describes the nightlife, emotions, and experiences of the single-girl lifestyle and Eve is a likeable, funny character who grows up throughtout the course of this book. Tabitha, Roseanne, and the rest of the supporting cast are richly defined and believable, too. However, while at times I had a hard time putting this book down (due, in part, to the characters, humor and details), there were moments where the book lagged. I was a little bored with all the tiny details of Eve's job--her emails, what she ate for lunch, etc.--which didn't add much to the plot, except to reinforce the fact her job is, yes, incredibly boring. I also thought the author was slow in describing Eve's desire to create her own magazine--the aspect is hardly mentioned until about halfway through the book. In addition, there were many spelling/grammatical errors and lack of scene page breaks, which were distracting and confusing at times. Despite these few flaws, "On the Verge" is a perfect kick-back-and-relax read, especially for the twenty-something set.
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Summary: Factoids of the Generation X!
Review: Twenty-three-year-old New Jersey native Eve Vitali is often on the verge of something: losing her job, losing her friends, losing romantic relationships, losing her sanity. Yet, she's managed to keep a rather nice lifestyle by getting together with glamazon friend Tabitha and naive New Englander Roseanne for a night on the town at trendy Manhattan bars and glamorous parties. And despite her lack of enthusiasm in her job as personal assistant at Bicycle Boy, a magazine for male cyclists, she keeps the faith by dreaming of the day in which she will launch a magazine specifically for post-college women who haven't got their lives in order. In a nutshell, On the Verge is a refreshing novel about the Generation X. Most novels of this genre focus on women in their late twenties or early thirties, but this one is clever and brave enough to have a witty and fun heroine in her early twenties. There are some unexpected and fun twists in this novel. However, there are certain areas in which I think that Ariella Papa could improve in her writing. For instance, there are several grammatical errors -- namely the mispunctuations -- that made the book a bit distracting to read at times. Also, she should have changed scenes by using page breaks more often. The scene changes from one paragraph to the next confused me at times. But these are structural erros only and Papa is a talented author who can certainly write a great story. I have read the entire line of Red Dress Ink books thus far, and On the Verge is one of the best that they have published. I recommend it!
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