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 enlarge | Author: Jane Green
Publisher: Viking Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  153 reviews
Sales Rank: 2195
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0670018856
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780670018857
ASIN: 0670018856
Publication Date: June 17, 2008
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 Wonderful Read October 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Loved this book so much I was sad when it came to an end..... I could not put it down. I loved all the relationships and witty words...such a wonderful story of Nan and her new "found" family...and the unsuspecting turns her life takes (don't want to give anything away)...really great real life lessons in this book..... funny and clever... A great story that really sticks with you... I want to be like Nan when I grow up..her attitude..and fox like smarts..!! THANK YOU! Jane Green for such a wonderful book to read on my vacation! Cheers!!!
 This book represents a new low September 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As another reviewer said Green's books have been going steadily downhill since 'Babyville' but the fall in quality between this and her last book (which I didn't actually like) is a major one. TBH I wonder if she even wrote it. It is flat and lifeless and the characters are really all the same person - Nan is supposed to be this wonderfully eccentric older lady - but in reality she isn't any different from any of the other characters. Jessica is a spoiled selfish brat but she really isn't any worse than any of the adult characters.Relationships break up so that the participants can find their 'true soulmates' (yawn) who it many cases seem to be indistinguishable from their original soulmate or for that matter any other male/female character in the novel. Jordana is supposedly to be incredibly tarty, shallow and materialistic but frankly I couldn't see any difference between her and the other female characters except they went for a more low key but also expensive look. The conversations in particular are unbelievable - whether characters are male/female/old/young/gay/straight they all have exactly the same voice. In particular she seems to have lost the insight she used to have into male characters - the lowlight for me came when Michael is trying to persuade his married lover to get rid of their baby - he tells her about a friend of his who decided to become a single mother but regretted it - the whole thing sounds like a conversation between two girlfriends, like nothing at all a man would ever say.
The only twist I hadn't forseen was when someone from the past turns up again in Nan's life (I didn't think even in this poor form JG would be so obvious) and the story turns mildly interesting - but needless to say this character is killed off before he can pose any threat to the happy ending we find ourselves rushing towards at breakneck speed. (There is no imagination at all in these pairings - what's the betting that Daniel will fall for what is apparently the only other unattached gay male in Nantucket or that Michael won't have to look too far from his mother's house to find the low-maintenance soulmate he craves?) There are absolutely no consequences at all for bad behaviour - Daf's ex (having been ditched by the woman he left her for) quickly finds another woman who seems perfect for him, Michael behaves outrageously by sleeping with his boss's wife - and not only gets off with it but is rewarded by finding true love and a better lifestyle, Jessica steals from shops and her mother responds by buying her more stuff (!). Is this really the same woman who wrote 'Spellbound'?
I wonder how much longer Green will get off with peddling these stories of rich self-satisfied people who have no real problems whatsoever - I found it impossible to sympathise with the so-called problems of Nan who has at least the option of selling off her house and land for millions - when these days many people have not only debt but negative equity and can't sell their property at all!
 Quick summer read September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A good summer read, typical of Jane Green books. It started me reading all her other books.
good September 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought the book was good . I have to be fair as i do not read that many books that dont involve a murder or something to that effect. So for a nice summer book i would say this is a good book . The story line was good . their were alot of characters in the book so i sometimes mixed them up . but thats no fault of the author. Nantucket sounds like the place to see . i would say its a good book for the girls who like romance books ect .
I miss the old Jane September 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Where is the old wit and charm? Not to mention an actual plot. This book was just too cheesy for me. Her earlier books were so much more substantial with good plot lines and interesting characters. But her last few were more like fluff for me. The big "secret" was something I figured out very early in the novel so the rest was predictable. After Babyville, I think her books just went sour. But I will continue to always read her novels.
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