5 AMAZINGLY FUNNY AND ENTERTAINING STARS!*Re-read for GR. These authors are just amazing, I love their books and their writing, their characters and plots. It's amazing I can't get enough, only thing that would make this better is if we had a sequel or a shortie if the future. Pretty please. So we have Hallie Lawrence Pierpont, after leaving her youngest daughter in Yale, her husband Bill doesn't even wait to get home before announcing that he's leaving her for a fitness trainer named Ashlee. After succumbing to an Oreo induced coma, Hallie is determined to get her life back on track, an unexpected call from an old college love sets plans in motion and so this story starts. Whatever did happen to those old boyfriends? All the men I didn’t marry? It just may be time to find out.The cookies taste much better this way, and I’m pretty sure the freezing process kills off the calories. Plus everybody knows that any food you eat standing up doesn’t count.This was such a funny and uplifting story, you find yourself laughing from the moment the story starts, it's an adventure that you can't help but feel addicted to, it's amazing. Time stops and I stand frozen. For a moment, the whole world goes silent and the only sound I hear is a bird off in the distance, with a persistent, mournful call: You’ll be alone you’ll be alone you’ll be alone.But I can’t even think about that possibility. Anyway, what does a bird know?The secondary characters are great, Bellini -Hallie's best friend- is witty and free and happy; the kids, are wonderful, and I hope I have kids like that some day lol; Kevin is fucking gorgeous in my mind, I adore him (view spoiler)[though I knew he wasn't going to end up with Hallie in the end, and I had this nagging feeling from the beginning that Tom HAD to end making an appearance (hide spoiler)]
This was the first book I read by this pair of authors. I had never heard of them before and only picked up the book because I was at the library, frantically looking for a book to read over the weekend. So, this review is a little behind the times because this book is from a few years ago, but I happen to really enjoy their style of writing. It was witty, light and fun. The story line was terribly unrealistic (but aren't most chick-lit books?), but it wasn't like I was looking for some heavy, non-fiction, based-on-a-true-story story.I'm working my way through the rest of their books, so I guess they did something right...
What do You think about The Men I Didn't Marry (2007)?
Honestly, this book was kind of all over the place. I enjoyed reading it, but I also don't think it was very good in the end. Too scattered. It felt like the plot involving one of the ex-boyfriends and the character's sister was just sort of shoe-horned in. Didn't seem to go with the rest of the book at all. It's like the character barely thought about it for twenty years, barely thought about it during the course of the story, then can't think about anything else and goes off to deal with it, and then after it's resolved doesn't think about it ever again. It was a false note. Still, the story did go off in some unexpected directions. It was nice that the character (view spoiler)[didn't end up with any of her exes and also didn't get back together with her husband (hide spoiler)]
—Shannon
Semi-decent chick lit. Protagonist gets dumped by her husband of 20+ years, then goes in search of her old boyfriends to see what she missed out on...learns something from each of them along the way, etc. etc. I probably would have liked it more if it weren't for 2 things: one, I felt that the authors were trying TOO hard to be funny. You could hardly finish a paragraph without finding some not-so-witty one liner thrown in. Two, the whole part with Dick (her 4th boyfriend) seemed rushed and random. Like, "Oh hey, we need a serious scene in here, let's get this done quick." It just didn't fit the tone of the rest of the novel.Overall, not bad, though I could list several other chick-lit choices that I'd prefer first.
—Kelly (TheWellReadRedhead)
A woman's husband leaves her the day they take their youngest child to college. The husband's a jerk, but good news is, she doesn't take him back. She looks up old boyfriends and finds out who she is again after 20 years of marriage. There's a silly sub-plot regarding her job as a lawyer, but it's written well enough to keep the reader in suspense of how she, Hallie handles it all.A good beach read.
—Mel
