Delicious. I can’t think of any other word to use other than delicious.Before this book, I would have declared myself a hardcore chick-lit fan. I can rattle of a list of writers from both the US and the UK. I can take pictures of my shelves showing rows and rows of chick-lit novels. I can preach to you about how I love the way Megan Crane speaks to women my age, the way Jennifer Crusie speaks to women my size, the way Jill Mansell makes me dream of the UK and all it has to offer. I was convinced...

There is a fine line between making a character lovably neurotic and making them unbearable and impossible to empathize with. This book falls into the latter category.

So far this is my least favorite Marian Keyes novel. I've even stopped partway through to read Rachel's Holiday and Conversations with the Fat Girl and felt somewhat reluctant to continue reading it. I finally did finish it though, just to see if it at some point would have a redeeming quality. For now, it feels like this novel appears in sepia while all other Keyes books I've read are in technicolor (yes, my description is cliche, but it fits!).After reading, I still feel the same way. I stoppe...

4.5 starsAlthough I'm not really fond of chick-lit, and this book was predictable, I loved it! Sure, I HATED HATED HATED, (did I say hated?) some characters (Karen and Gus), but even they seemed normal, real, people we've all dealt with at one time or another. Some would say Lucy's character is weak, not a proper leading lady, but, even when I wanted to slap some sense into her, I adored her and understood her. She has a job she hates, roommates she loves and hates, coworkers that are one of a k...

First, a confession – a confession which will, conceivably, invalidate my entire review. I hate chick lit. There, I’ve said it. I avoid pink covers like the plague. I’m a chick, and I like lit, but the genre commonly known as ‘chick lit’ – can’t stand it. I find it patronising. Men, shopping and diets – is this all women are supposed to be interested in? Couldn’t we have a novel about a 20- or 30-something woman struggling to unravel the meaning of life, or pursuing her lifelong dream of excavat...

I liked this book…I really did. 740-pages strong, it had a right blend of eccentricities, romance, predictability and enough icky-moments to keep me hooked. Lucy Sullivan is a typical Londoner. Twenty-six years old, she is burdened with a dysfunctional family, a dead-end job, an anal-retentive boss, a medley of demented colleagues, flat mates who totter on the thin line between heaven and hell AND a love-life that’s riddled with enough potholes to make you dizzy. And then a tarot-reader proclaim...

This book has gotten a bad rap in the reviews on here, but I really liked it. Yes, I knew who the mystery man groom to be was going to be very early on, but who cares. Krystal, I agree that watching her develop (my only beef was that she was 26 and it seemed like this development should have happened earlier in life, but that's just me being judgemental). You can see her slowly change her attitude about herself, the men in her life, how she should be treated. There's a turning point I love in a

We are not amused. After I got into the story a bit, it was not funny, but sickening. The leading character, Lucy, has so many problems and issues, and is completely out of touch with reality. She treats in the worst possible manner only those who really care for her, at the same time being every body else's doormat. Her head was not the nicest place for me to spend time in. I know this is supposed to be a light reading, and that was what I expected, but the theme is not light at all, and the wa...

Typical, predictable, irksome. Not like what everyone told me to expect from Marian Keyes. Read this ages ago. So don't ask for more details. I remember nothing more. 😉

This book was way too lengthy for my attention span. Halfway through the book & I've already given up on it... The protagonist Lucy Sullivan has too much insecurities about herself, & that became boring after a while....(view spoiler)[ Since it's a chicklit, it was but obvious that Lucy would end up with her "too-close-to-have-a-crush-on" best friend Daniel. But i hated the fact that their relationship hasn't been explored in the first half & instead i had to bear with Lucy's constant cribbings....

Lucy Sullivan and Co are a group of people I NEVER EVER EVER want to have in my life! Lucy is a fucking door mat half the time and allows people to treat her like total shit, then the other half of the time she treats people like absolute shit. This was not an enjoyable world to enter. At least 300 pages can be cut from this book giving you the exact same reading experience, in fact if it was 300 pages less I probably would have enjoyed it more.

I was in a mood for something different after reading the phenomenal legal thriller Sycamore Row so I picked up this 600 pages long chick-lit from my shelf. I ordinarily don't buy chick-lit books because I'd rather buy mysteries and thrillers, which I absolutely love reading. This book came from a box of some 25 assorted books which my father bought for me from a whole-sale market for just Rs. 2000. SPOILERS Ahead. Consider yourself warned!! Lucy Sullivan is the worst type of heroine you can

I know, I know, it's total chick lit and maybe I should go easy on it...but nah. That said, there were a few things about this book I liked. First of all, it made me laugh out loud a few times. However, now that I know Keyes is capable of hilarity, I would have liked it to happen more often, since the book is absurdly long. I also liked that Lucy was not portrayed as being a totally normal girl-- she's dealt with depression throughout her life. Although the plot is totally predictable, it's fun

I know I've read them out of order, but if you've read Sushi for Beginners you can pretty well give this book a miss (or vice versa), as they're nearly identical:-aging failure with men has office job she hates and suffers from depression.-Less attractive than her friends and has a strained relationship with her family.-Finds herself linked romantically with "the man of her dreams", a performer (comedian, musician).-gets treated like garbage by lout boyfriend and more attractive friends.-comes t...