Darri Stephens

This book held great promise: the story of a girl just starting out in the great city of New York with a new job, new apartment, and a unique twist of a cooking club.

The problem is that the story was all over the place; you could tell that it was written by two people. The main character would start out in one scene and then a chapter later be telling people what happened to her previously. You didn’t get to experience the entire novel firsthand; you had to put up with the main character telling her friends about it later on after other events had taken place. All the jumping around made it too confusing.

The main character was very easy to like and her circle of friends was amusing except for “Skinny Sage” and her many food aversions. There are only so many Anorexia jokes that can be made before a person gets irritated. Most everything else in the story was unbelievable and pretty much cookie cutter.

Overall, I was disappointed with Spooning and would only recommend it to people who like an extremely fluffy, light & meaningless story.… (meer)