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I think I'l give this novel 2.5 stars. First of, I think the blurb on the back of the book isn't great, a better one could have been written. This book centers around a group of people, who all start to get to know another a little better through a series of dinners at each others houses. However, I found the dinners were not the real focus of this story, you would think a lot would happen within these dinners but to be honest, nothing really does. Most happens away from the group and 'The Supper Club' giving the book title a little less significance.
The only character that I genuinely liked was Lucy. Everyone else was flawed, (naturally, everyone is human) but I have read other books with similarly flawed characters who are much more likable. Maggie, who has been left by her husband, I should have felt sorry for her but instead I grew a intense dislike, not for love of Patsy cause she was a pain too but Maggie became like a prowling, soul sucking shadow, always making a fuss whenever she would appear and acting as though her marriage had been perfect before Patsy even though we find out it hasn't and they would have broke up anyway.
Chrissie is a moan and needs to get over this awful thing that ruined her left. If you ask me anabortion is not life-ruining...and she clearly got on ok, getting a good job, settling down and having a baby.
The book is good at sucking you into the story and the shortness of the chapters makes it easy to fly through.
The only character that I genuinely liked was Lucy. Everyone else was flawed, (naturally, everyone is human) but I have read other books with similarly flawed characters who are much more likable. Maggie, who has been left by her husband, I should have felt sorry for her but instead I grew a intense dislike, not for love of Patsy cause she was a pain too but Maggie became like a prowling, soul sucking shadow, always making a fuss whenever she would appear and acting as though her marriage had been perfect before Patsy even though we find out it hasn't and they would have broke up anyway.
Chrissie is a moan and needs to get over this awful thing that ruined her left. If you ask me an
The book is good at sucking you into the story and the shortness of the chapters makes it easy to fly through.
I really enjoyed this book and learning about Pearl's story along with Mel's own journey. A read for both young and old!
I'll give this one 2.5 stars, simply because it took me a while to get really stuck into it. I figured at first that Sarah would be an easy character to like but at times I found her to be a bit silly and she didn't really have much sense. I really liked Mac and I thought he was a well-thought out character however Natasha was fairly lacking in my opinion. There was something missing, that little bit that normally makes a main character sparkle. But it is worth a read and has a fine horsey quality to it!
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All my dreams that began the minute I put down Shadows came alive, roaring and screaming at me in a delirious haze with Monsters.
From the moment we met Wolf and found out who he was and looked like, I was so intrigued and I hoped he would become a central part of the story so I'm so glad how Alex came to be out of the mine and how again and again her life is tangled up in his. I just love him, he's a monster but is so aware of what he is but trying to survive yet still retaining some of the gentleness and love that is clearly so very Simon!
Ellie, Chris and Tom are all my babes too though there were times that my patience ran out with Tom. I think he just slid down to second when my disturbed love for Wolf put him in my number one spot.
I'm interested that's there not a real quick-fix for this new world. People who have survived just need to learn and adapt to their new surroundings until slowing or surely, the world puts itself back together. Hello Moon!
Buck, Ghost, Jet, Daisy...I'm so glad to see you all at the end of this book. Mina, girl, I love you so much :(
Wolf, you son of a bitch, just jump and eat the damned chocolate though it's going to make the little love triangle going on into a square?
I want another book!Right now!
From the moment we met Wolf and found out who he was and looked like, I was so intrigued and I hoped he would become a central part of the story so I'm so glad how Alex came to be out of the mine and how again and again her life is tangled up in his. I just love him, he's a monster but is so aware of what he is but trying to survive yet still retaining some of the gentleness and love that is clearly so very Simon!
Ellie, Chris and Tom are all my babes too though there were times that my patience ran out with Tom. I think he just slid down to second when my disturbed love for Wolf put him in my number one spot.
I'm interested that's there not a real quick-fix for this new world. People who have survived just need to learn and adapt to their new surroundings until slowing or surely, the world puts itself back together. Hello Moon!
Buck, Ghost, Jet, Daisy...I'm so glad to see you all at the end of this book. Mina, girl, I love you so much :(
Wolf, you son of a bitch, just jump and eat the damned chocolate though it's going to make the little love triangle going on into a square?
I want another book!Right now!
I always enjoy Phillipa's novels of this era and I really love how she gives voices to the women in history who have been constantly overlooked. I understand people commenting that maybe the novel was boring because Elizabeth just sat around but really, in that time, as a queen who in reality, was more a prisoner of her husband and mother-in-law, what else could she do but sit and think and mourn for all the members of her family who lose their lives in The Cousins War.
I think The White Princess gives a great story of a Queen who was trapped but tried to make the most out of her situation, it tells the story of a divide in love and loyalties- a beloved brother feared lost, or your true-born son? Not to mention that this particular Queen is the grandmother of England's most famous monarch, The Virgin Queen....I thoroughly enjoyed it and I will always look forward to another Phillipa Gregory book!
I think The White Princess gives a great story of a Queen who was trapped but tried to make the most out of her situation, it tells the story of a divide in love and loyalties- a beloved brother feared lost, or your true-born son? Not to mention that this particular Queen is the grandmother of England's most famous monarch, The Virgin Queen....I thoroughly enjoyed it and I will always look forward to another Phillipa Gregory book!
