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Summary: a good, fun brit lit chick book!
Review: 33yr old Jo is married and has 2 kids. Her husband, Jeff, is in a hurry one morning and gives her a set of recently developed photos but didn't include the whole set. Jo is curious where the 5 missing pictures are so she goes to the photo place and gets another set done. She sees the missing photos and finds out that Jeff is having an affair!Jo enters the dating field and the reader gets interested in all her men! She must only pick one as well as maintain her interior decorating job and life being a single mom. This british chick literature that will delight you and tug at your emotions. Beautiful read - excellent writing.
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Summary: A good read
Review: A good read. I really enjoyed all the quick lines and great dialogue between all the characters. Jo Miles the heroine of this book is trying to find out who she is after a divorce but I really felt like shaking Jo Miles at times and found myself mumbling to the book for her to do something anything other that what she did or didn't do. Although, the book is a good read and I recommend it I felt as if Jo was a bit naive slow to wise up. All in all a good book to take to the beach.
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Summary: A good read
Review: A good read. I really enjoyed all the quick lines and great dialogue between all the characters. Jo Miles the heroine of this book is trying to find out who she is after a divorce but I really felt like shaking Jo Miles at times and found myself mumbling to the book for her to do something anything other that what she did or didn't do. Although, the book is a good read and I recommend it I felt as if Jo was a bit naive slow to wise up. All in all a good book to take to the beach.
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Summary: Fourplay....is AWESOME!!!
Review: A perfect follow up to the lessons in dating learned by Bridget Jones! The themes in this book are soooo true! It truly is great therapy for heartbreak. I found myself laughing out loud while reading. The title makes a great conversation piece as well. Really, this book is full of details that truly bring it to life. I could imagine myself as the main character...I could totally relate. I hope it helps you. It certainly was good for me.
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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: As someone who is in the process of getting divorced, due to an unfaithful spouse, I found this book to be a very humorous and enjoyable read. There were many times when I could totally sympathize with Jo as she went through her trials and tribulations. And although the thought of four men to pick from post divorce isn't THAT likely to happen, it is nice to be optimistic! I read it cover to cover in a day, while trying to get everything ready for Christmas.
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Summary: Fun read!
Review: Fourplay is a good, fun read. I would liken it to a beach read, which is actually where I read it, on the beaches in Clearwater, FL! Anyway, I do agree with former posts who noted the obvious cliches in this book, but it doesn't matter, it's still well written and I got what I expected out of it. It is "chic lit", but very well written. Did anyone else notice that her kids were constantly watching TV! Probably a good mirror to how a lot of kids are entertained in real life! A fun read.
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Summary: Pleasant and frothy
Review: Fourplay is a pleasant and frothy summer read. The heroine is basically likeable, and her dilemma, choosing among four men, at least two of whom (Martin and Conor) are spectacular, is an enviable one. Indeed, for a novel that begins with what is at least in theory a devastating divorce, there is remarkably little sadness to be found, either in the ex-wife or her children, who adjust to the changes in their lives with record speed and equanimity. While I enjoyed this book, I gave it the relatively low rating of three stars. There were several reasons for this. First, our heroine recovers from her divorce with breath-taking speed. No sooner does she become available than four men materialize, all of whom want her on a permanent basis. While it would be nice if life worked like that, it does not. Of course, in romance novels life is not portrayed realistically, but this was excessive. Second, while our heroine has two children, I have never dealt with children who were as unobtrusive in daily life as these. In Fourplay's world, baby sitting is readily available, and the children seem almost pathologically happy at all times. Dream on! Third, the author (or editor) has a verbal tic that I found very irritating. Somewhat unusually, as the problem tends to be the opposite, there are not enough commas in this book. When one is addressing someone, the person being addressed should be surrounded by commas. For example, it is correct to write: "I love you, Jane." It is not correct to write: "I love you Jane." This distracting error appears throughout this book, usually at a rate of several times per page, as there is a lot of conversation. The fourth reason lies in the inclusion of a couple of unnecessarily graphic sex scenes, accompanied by unnecessarily foul language. The scenes are only a couple of paragraphs long each. They are wildly inconsistent with the rest of the book and completely gratuitous. I have no idea why they are there, as their message could have been conveyed with greater subtlety and enhanced romantic aura without the X-rated content. Even more unforgiveably, they are completely out of character for our heroine. All in all, though, this book was enjoyable. For her future books, however, it would be wonderful if the author could learn the correct use of commas.
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Summary: Great, fun read!!
Review: I bought this book on a whim to take the beach and finished reading it last night. It is a very easy, enjoyable read and was so easy to fall for the characters. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a "fun" read. You easily get "lost" (in a good way) in this book and, in my case, I was sad to see it end.
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Summary: Lumbering story of a wronged wife
Review: I find it especially frustrating when the accumulation of Amazon reviews boost a book to four or more stars only to find when I read the book for myself, the story is seriously flawed. Such is the case with Fourplay by Jane Moore. The story of a wife done wrong by a wayward husband is ages old and therefore it's important the telling be from a fresh voice. Fourplay started out to be that fresh voice - it really showed promise, especially during the scene were Jo confronts her straying husband, presenting the evidence of his infidelity. From there, we see how Jo gets on with her life. Her interior designing business begins to thrive and three different suitors pursue her (eventually to become four, as indicated by the title.) While the telling is mostly realistic, the narrative voice falls flat. Characters are never fully developed and seem two-dimensional. Rosie, Jo's friend, is the old standby confidant. There's the requisite nagging mother - who Jo never truly stands up to, at least not to my satisfaction. The men who pursue Jo are boring and very alike. There's the obligatory tragedy towards the end - I am beginning to suspect writers use this device to add "conflict" because they are at a loss to properly depict internal conflict - that is, the conflict of emotions and being torn between choices. In the end, Jo chooses between suitors, instead of perhaps standing on her own and being independent. I guess the author thinks a woman cannot survive a divorce without her next partner waiting in the wings. So when Jo makes her choice, we are hardly surprised by who it is. I was very disappointed with the scene where she makes her choice known to her new beloved. I was also disappointed with the final mother/daughter reconciliation as it seemed too pat and contrived. On the positive side, Jo does grow from her experience. She does become stronger and more independent. Just not enough to satisfy the reader.
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Summary: The best novel of this summer.
Review: I have seven words for this book:
hilarious, raunchy, heartwarming,
thoughtful, indulging, sarcastic,
and engaging. Once I picked up the book,
I couldn't stop reading till it was 5am.
Of course, I think no other straight
man would be able to tolerate this book
or let alone enjoy as I did. But if you are
a reading woman, don't miss this jem.
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