Late Bloomer

Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Review: Easy read, kept my interest to the end. Great story!

Rating:
Summary: What the hell? This book sucks!
Review: I had never read (or listened to) a Fern Michaels novel and after this childish crap can truly say I never will again. What is it with these writers who start off critical, talented and hungry who have some best sellers and then think any garbage they commit to the written word is a slam dunk (i. e. James Patterson)? Michaels characters are at the very least extremely bipolar, (what's the deal with that first blowup between Boomer and Cady), at the most shallow and juvenile. The dialogue is sophomoric, repetitive and just plain comic book, and I never cared for an instant about anyone in the book. If this is all it takes to have a best seller, I'm quitting my day job and buying a computer, because I can write rings around this refuse. If I could choose zero stars, I gladly would have. The only saving grace is that I listened to the book on CD, (coincidentally read in the same trite, overbearing, mushy, juvenile, stupid way it was written), which I borrowed from my local library, saving my money for something, anything of any value at all.

Rating:
Summary: What the hell? This book sucks!
Review: I had never read (or listened to) a Fern Michaels novel and after this childish crap can truly say I never will again. What is it with these writers who start off critical, talented and hungry who have some best sellers and then think any garbage they commit to the written word is a slam dunk (i. e. James Patterson)? Michaels characters are at the very least extremely bipolar, (what's the deal with that first blowup between Boomer and Cady), at the most shallow and juvenile. The dialogue is sophomoric, repetitive and just plain comic book, and I never cared for an instant about anyone in the book. If this is all it takes to have a best seller, I'm quitting my day job and buying a computer, because I can write rings around this refuse. If I could choose zero stars, I gladly would have. The only saving grace is that I listened to the book on CD, (coincidentally read in the same trite, overbearing, mushy, juvenile, stupid way it was written), which I borrowed from my local library, saving my money for something, anything of any value at all.

Rating:
Summary: OK but redundant
Review: I liked the story well enough, but agree with a lot of the other reviewers in that it could have been written and edited a lot better. I wonder if they realized there's something called a thesaurus out there? Certain cliche phrases are used too often. I would probably read more from her, but my expectations are pretty low.

Rating:
Summary: OK but redundant
Review: I only read up to page 125 and couldn't read another word. This book is so poorly written and the plot so juvenile that I'm surprised it was even published. Maybe Fern Michaels needs to go back to the time when she/they actually had to put some effort into it.

Rating:
Summary: Quite possibly the worst written book ever
Review: No editor worth his or her salt should have sent this book to print. Did the author even read through it after writing it? Discrepancies abound, the dialogue is both rambling and choppy (breathe much?), and the "plot" never develops. Basically, you can read the blurb and be done with it. From one page to the next, the characters bop around from personality to personality, never reaching any more depth than they had when first introduced (getting a make-over does NOT constitute character development.). My guess is that this book was published because the author has enjoyed past best-sellers, and name recognition will sell it. I could find nothing even remotely credible in this story. And who gave the fashion advice? If you enjoy reading the equivalent of a first-time novelist's first draft, go ahead and buy (or better yet, visit a library). My assessment is that this book never bloomed at all.

Rating:
Summary: Boring, unglued and alltogether not worth the price
Review: This is one of the worst novels I've ever read! The characters are not exploited, the plot is scattered all over the place, and the dialogue is SO BORING it was only by sheer willpower that I turned the last page. Cady Johnson appears as a silly introvert heroine that, with only one visit from a designer, changes her looks, her wardrobe and her 20-year long fears and attitudes, and turns out to be witty, adventurous and interesting. If only! Boomer, the wanna-be hero, comes out of nowhere, with a life-long love for Cady that has been hiding in his heart and comes alive after just once glance to her renovated self. Please! Save yourself a lot of deception and skip this one.

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Summary: Strange. Very Strange
Review: This was without a doubt the weirdest book I have ever read. I assumed this would be a romance but it was more of a mystery as to the details behind a childhood accident involving the main character, Cady, and her childhood friends and enemies. Her grandmother seemed almost like she had multiple personalities and her "friends" were not truly so. The most distrubing part of this book was the death of one of the secondary characters. I truly didn't like any of the characters in this book and finished it wondering why the heck I wasted my time reading it to begin with.