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Title: Wedding Season by DARCY COSPER ISBN: 1-4000-5145-2 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 23 March, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.15 (26 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: BORING!!!!
Comment: I was so excited to read this book, and I couldn't even make it past page 30!! It is SO LONG and SO BORING! Half the time you can't even keep up with the characters, let alone who is male and female. The author is way to wordy and jumps around too much. It was a good idea for a book, however, the author just doesn't know how to write. Stay away unless you need a lot of sleep!
Rating: 4
Summary: Tis The Season...
Comment: The thing that struck me about this book as I finished it wasn't the character development (for I found most of the characters too closed off), or the 'gripping' plot (it isn't particularly chaotic despite the books premise)...but what I took away from it. I found as I read the story that it really gives you some perspective on the institutions and conventions in our society, particularly (and obviously) surrounding Marriage and Weddings. I was drawn into the ideas of why some people cherish 'til death do us part' and why others, such as the main character, are so opposed (or maybe not) to weddings.
The story has the general premise of Joy Silverman, a 29-going on-30 year old woman with a perfect live-in boyfriend, who is faced with the dilemma of attending 17 weddings in 6 months, including her 5 nearest and dearest pals, both of her parents, friends of friends and friends of the family...you might assume, judging by the cover (a big no no) and the intial outline of hte story on the back and the catch phrase at the beginning, that you will be catapaulted into detailed accounts of the most important of these weddings...
Instead, Cosper uses the events that take place at the weddings to bring her anti-marriage heroine Joy to question her morals and beliefs in terms of why she is so against marraige, when all of these other people in her life are committing to one another. I think the story concept is original in itself as you are reading about someone who goes against hte conventions of both what we expect in society (marriage!) and what we expect from a 'romantic comedy-bridget jones-esque' type book that dominates the market these days for women (this book is hardly a romantic comedy...whatsoever). The only thing I found discouraging about the story was that there was a large number of characters and sub-plots introduced that never really went anywhere or contributed to the main messages of the novel, and serve mainly as confusing backdrop storylines that don't contribute to a more cohesive and concise book.
Regardless of the criticisms and congratulations I have to offer to Miss Cosper, I have to say that this book, while not the most enthralling of the ones I have read lately, was definiately one of the most unique and promising in terms of what you have to gain from reading it. Single and married women alike should not go into this story and expect a super dramatic romance and climax and all that jazz that you find in most books on the market, but should rather read this book for the experience and the values you will pick up when you are done.
Rating: 2
Summary: I wanted to like this book but couldn't
Comment: I will say upfront that I love chick lit and I really wanted to like this book. However, the Wedding Season was a 330-page disappointment.
The characters were alternatively cardboard or unlikable and I thought that none of the situations, conflicts, or tensions were developed enough so I actually cared.
The two worst things about the book were the passive aggressive nature of our heroine as it related to the villianess and the "I just believe in marriage too much" epiphany. The whole thing was just a little too much to take.
Read Bridget Jones Diary again. It's a better use of your time.
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Title: Starting From Square Two by Caren Lissner ISBN: 0373250525 Publisher: Red Dress Ink Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Fat Chance by Deborah Blumenthal ISBN: 0373250509 Publisher: Red Dress Ink Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Bergdorf Blondes : A Novel by Plum Sykes ISBN: 1401351964 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 07 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Weekend in Paris by Robyn Sisman ISBN: 0452284902 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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