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Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)
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This is a truly awful book. I'm not kidding. I can understand an ebook being this awful, but this was written by someone considered to be an established professional with paid editors to go over the details. I can't believe anyone thought this was good enough to publish.
First of all the author goes completely off subject on more than one occasion and takes up way more than a page or two describing food and restaurants. I have no problem with books detailing cuisine and the like, but in this book it was always too much and not weaved into the story well at all. Imagine reading about the character and then the author takes the next 3 pages of the book or so and talks about desserts from her local bakery.
Second of all, at the beginning of the story she explains to the reader why she can't stand her ex boyfriend. She describes him as the boyfriend she got stuck with and never really liked, yet after his father died she is inexplicably in love with him and has unprotected sex with him. Seriously? This is a woman in her late 20s or early 30s (I forgot how old the character, Cannie, is) and she's so self destructive she won't take the basics of precautions when being intimate with someone? I didn't really like Cannie before, but that just pushed it all over the edge for me.
Thirdly, Cannie is pathetic in every sense of the word. I wish authors would get it through their heads that just because someone is overweight does not automatically make them self harming self sabotaging imbeciles with the only thing being on their mind is how much weight they want to lose.
I understand the struggle of someone wanting to lose weight, but that's about as far as my sympathies went. I skimmed through the last portion of the book because reading it had become extremely tedious. Most chick lit novels consist of boring women who whine about any and everything in their lives while they're still waiting on their Prince Charming to show up this was no exception.
I loathe this character so much, she was stupid. I doubt I'll ever read anything else by this woman, it's simply not worth the time and effort.
First of all the author goes completely off subject on more than one occasion and takes up way more than a page or two describing food and restaurants. I have no problem with books detailing cuisine and the like, but in this book it was always too much and not weaved into the story well at all. Imagine reading about the character and then the author takes the next 3 pages of the book or so and talks about desserts from her local bakery.
Second of all, at the beginning of the story she explains to the reader why she can't stand her ex boyfriend. She describes him as the boyfriend she got stuck with and never really liked, yet after his father died she is inexplicably in love with him and has unprotected sex with him. Seriously? This is a woman in her late 20s or early 30s (I forgot how old the character, Cannie, is) and she's so self destructive she won't take the basics of precautions when being intimate with someone? I didn't really like Cannie before, but that just pushed it all over the edge for me.
Thirdly, Cannie is pathetic in every sense of the word. I wish authors would get it through their heads that just because someone is overweight does not automatically make them self harming self sabotaging imbeciles with the only thing being on their mind is how much weight they want to lose.
I understand the struggle of someone wanting to lose weight, but that's about as far as my sympathies went. I skimmed through the last portion of the book because reading it had become extremely tedious. Most chick lit novels consist of boring women who whine about any and everything in their lives while they're still waiting on their Prince Charming to show up this was no exception.
I loathe this character so much, she was stupid. I doubt I'll ever read anything else by this woman, it's simply not worth the time and effort.
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Finished Reading
June 22, 2010
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