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Bezig met laden... Hals over kop (1998)door Jill Mansell
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I just adore how quaint they are. Almost like ducks. ( ) I had two books last week from publishers that were at polar opposite ends of the spectrum of "gendered" literature. They both sucked. First Blood is the novel that the movie Rambo was based and is total dick lit. Basically, a war vet with PTSD meets a cop with control issues and they spend the rest of the book trying to kill each other for no adequately explored reason. Head Over Heels on the other hand is quintessential chick lit: fluffy romance with no real conflict, just misunderstanding and miscommunication, but then everybody talks and lives happily ever after. Neither book was badly written, both had consistent pacing and both are reprints which were originally published decades ago. And my hatred for both of them is mostly predicated on lack of balance. There is hardly any conversation in First Blood (entire chapters pass with nobody taking to another human being!) and the majority of the characters only exist to be killed off (I was disoriented by how high the body count was). Head over Heels is all talk and no action and by the end of it I was really wishing somebody would be killed (or, even better, several people), because there are far too many characters who only exist to be a romantic interest. In a perfect world, Rambo and Sheriff Teasdale are magically transported to Upper Sibley and blow the place to smithereens. Everybody dies, except for Teasdale and Jessie (the main protagonist from Head Over Heels whose relationship with her long-lost love was so inane I nearly puked) who fall in love and build a perfect literary world where people occasionally get killed but everybody talks about it first. Thank you to Sourcebooks who sent me a copy of this book for review. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: "Jill Mansell keeps on getting better..." â??Good Housekeeping Everyone thinks they know their neighbors, but nobody knows what scandalous surprise is going to happen next. Interior designer Jessie Roscoe has kept the identity of her son's father a secret for years. But when her old flame and actor Toby Gillespie moves in next door, it doesn't take long for the truth to be revealed, and for Tony to meet the son he never knew he had. Toby's wife, Deborah, seems to take it stride. But would she be so composed if she knew that the chemistry between Toby and Jessie was flaring up again? Jessie can't fathom a happy ending in this spider web of complicated relationships, but there are plenty more surprises to come, and many shocking truths to be revealed. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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