JEANETTE A. (gianetti) reviewed Quite the character on 9/5/2008 + 25 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

I love chick lit, but this book pushed the limits even of the "light read." Zoe Rose is a tad too obviously fictional, not in a cute-like-Amelie way but in a kind of bad-melodrama way. Too many unbelievably accurate, in fact genius, insights about the people around her (like her sister) while she claims to be unawares; too many totally oblivious blind spots about her own life while she claims to be insightful & intelligent & educated. The villains in the book were one-dimensional and thus unbelievable and thus not very interesting. I had to keep deciding again & again whether I wanted to pick up the book and keep reading, or leave it unfinished (and I almost NEVER do that). The writer herself must be an interesting person, and her skillful use of language is what kept me hanging on to the end.

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