Rating: Summary: Can't Put it Down! Review: This book was one of the best books I've ever read. Reading about the times that Vivi and her fellow ya ya's had, fun and naughty, keeps you interested about their olden time adventures! Though not a book of thrills, it has it's own heart warming thrills within.
Rating: Summary: thoroughly enjoyable and thought provoking Review: i loved this book and was sad to end it. the characters are both funny and real. the relationship between Vivi and Siddalee is very complex and much like many mother- daughter ties, especially as adults. the hurts and wants from childhhod spilled into both of their adult lives. i found myself reading a bit and then thinking of the many families i know and the garbage they carry around with them. this isa must read for any adult woman who has leftover feelings from her childhood. and lets faceit, we all do.
Rating: Summary: Entertaining story! Review: After reading the other on-line reviews, I had to write one of my own. Divine Secrets is a wonderfully entertaining book! I don't see how anyone could NOT love it or find it exciting. To be able to take a peek at the lives of the ya-yas, the dynamics of their relationships, and so forth, was worth every minute spent reading the book. Wells has done an incredible job of portraying the rural South and the women who lived it.
Rating: Summary: Don't waste your time! Review: I was very disappointed with this book. I'm thankful for all the readers who expressed a similar opinion, because I was the lone one who despised this book at my book club! I am glad I am not the only one who finds the characters trite, selfish and uninteresting!
Rating: Summary: Don't believe the hype! Review: Considering the amount of reverential press and copycat clubs this book inspired, I was less than impressed. The heroine was pretentious and unsympathetic and the Ya-Ya's were, to put it bluntly, annoying. I do not recommend this book unless you're someone who still swoons over or is somebody still in thrall of your high school's cheerleading squad.
Rating: Summary: WONDERFUL!!! ENTERTAINING!!! Review: I am from the deep South and this is truly a wonderful way to recapture what it was like. Also, what an excellent display of what friendships can mean to a person and what a mother's relationship with her daughter can mean. I highly recommend it for anyone - good relationships or bad!
Rating: Summary: Pathetic, absolutely pathetic Review: I read this book for my book club and I can honestly say it was one of the worst books I have ever read. I could not get past the poor writing enough to lose myself in the story. Did anyone edit this book? The writer should be happy that I do not work in publishing because I would have thrown the manuscript away. Well, to each her own.
Rating: Summary: This book was amazing. Review: I could not put this down once I started reading it. It was a very moving book without being sappy. I really appreciated the split perspective of the book: the woman that she thought her mother was and the reality of who she really was.
Rating: Summary: Excellent writing-unrealistic storyReb Review: Rebecca Wells is an excellent writer. I found the story very unrealistic. I had a lot of difficulty finding any sympathy for the ya-yas . They appeared immature and selfish throughout and try as I might I could not finish this book.
Rating: Summary: What a bore~! Review: The book is another expression of boring uneducated persons. What a waste of ink
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