Helpful Score: 2
Although well written, I didn't enjoy the novel at all. I found myself groaning, and wishing that it would end quickly. I see how some would enjoy it, but it's not my kind of chick lit.
Helpful Score: 2
Tried to get into, but this book had too many references to Christianity on behalf of the characters for me. Until I started the book, I wasn't aware it was Christian fiction.
Helpful Score: 1
Excellent Christian chick lit about a girl who moves from a small town in California to NYC. Gets a job in publishing, learns how to keep her beliefs in the midst of compromises.
Helpful Score: 1
Delightful Christian Chick Lit......enjoyed the writing style of these two young authors! Great summer beach read!
Helpful Score: 1
Cute book. Christain chick lit.
When smalltown California native Emily Hinton lands an editorial assistant position at a "world-famous" publishing house, she hangs a Bible verse in her cubicle, vows not to get drunk on weekends and begins her quest to build a glamorous and Christian life in the Big Apple. Her first day results in a meet-cute with one of the company's only other Christians, putative "total goody-goody" Bennett Edward Wyeth III, and pretty soon Emily and Bennett are an item. Enter, via e-mail, her elementary school crush, Jacob, who writes cleverly charming missives even as Bennett's stock is falling because his faith starts to seem insincere. But Emily's own faith is never explored: isn't there more to religion than prohibitions against heavy petting and Jell-O shots? The only convincingly devout Christian around is Emily's uncle, Matthew, who runs a mission in Times Square. Emily natters on, never seeming spiritual so much as prissy and pious, and by the time things come to a headEmily's boss considers publishing an antitraditional marriage screed, and she must decide whether to protest or to stay quietmost readers will have had enough of her.
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When smalltown California native Emily Hinton lands an editorial assistant position at a "world-famous" publishing house, she hangs a Bible verse in her cubicle, vows not to get drunk on weekends and begins her quest to build a glamorous and Christian life in the Big Apple. Her first day results in a meet-cute with one of the company's only other Christians, putative "total goody-goody" Bennett Edward Wyeth III, and pretty soon Emily and Bennett are an item. Enter, via e-mail, her elementary school crush, Jacob, who writes cleverly charming missives even as Bennett's stock is falling because his faith starts to seem insincere. But Emily's own faith is never explored: isn't there more to religion than prohibitions against heavy petting and Jell-O shots? The only convincingly devout Christian around is Emily's uncle, Matthew, who runs a mission in Times Square. Emily natters on, never seeming spiritual so much as prissy and pious, and by the time things come to a headEmily's boss considers publishing an antitraditional marriage screed, and she must decide whether to protest or to stay quietmost readers will have had enough of her.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
