Helpful Score: 1
Not impressed. The summary on the back of the book makes them all sound like best friends but really they are coworkers and know very little about each other. Frannie and Jill are both speech therapists at a private school. Emma is the new principal. Really, they hardly knew anything about her at all but are there when her husband shoots her, which really is the only good scene in the book. Frannie was recently dumped by a jerk boyfriend and you can tell she has no self- esteem. Jill constantly tells her how great she is. Lisa is also new and they hardly know her yet somehow they end up planning her wedding. The new man in Frannie's life becomes close to her because of the tragedy but again she hardly knows him and claims true love?? Not a very believable storyline other than the shooting itself. Very odd. I like this author just not this book. Disappointing to say the least.
Helpful Score: 1
A chick lit that took a bit to get into, but once the prologue's 911 call is explained, the story picks up and takes off. As the reader finds out in the prologue, there is a shooting involved, but it takes quite a few pages to get into where this fits into the story. I was intrigued by the prospect of a school shooting that is centered around adults instead of the students. It takes a whole new perspective on how adults react to a shooting that takes place among their peers.
I wasn't immediately hooked to any of the female characters, but slowly I fell in love with each of the three main girls. Throughout the book there was a lot of internal dialogue that sometimes repeated things that the reader already knew. The boys in the book took a back-burner until the end when they became major players.
I would recommend this for chick lit fans, those who enjoy a book that takes a new approach to women interactions through their work environment that spills into their personal lives.
I wasn't immediately hooked to any of the female characters, but slowly I fell in love with each of the three main girls. Throughout the book there was a lot of internal dialogue that sometimes repeated things that the reader already knew. The boys in the book took a back-burner until the end when they became major players.
I would recommend this for chick lit fans, those who enjoy a book that takes a new approach to women interactions through their work environment that spills into their personal lives.
