I didn't like this one. While I thought that the author did a good job of distinguishing the voices of the characters in dialogue, she did not do well in distinguishing them in narration. I find it hard to believe that four supposedly different women have the exact same thought patterns and would all make such liberal use of annoying parenthetical descriptions. Additionally, I thought the plot was crap. The only good thing that came from reading this book was that I added the name Parker to the list of baby girl names I suggested to my boss for his incubating fetus. (That's another thing. Who the hell knows that Parker Stevenson was in The Hardy Boys and even if you do know, how on earth would meeting a woman named Parker immediately make you think of that? The answers, respectively, are no one and it wouldn't. Parker isn't that unique a name.)
One more thing -- a description of a man sucking his junk out of his girlfriend's cooter is not generally included in my definition of light chick lit.
While I know who Parker S is from Nancy Drew, I too felt like the book made a bit much out of that connection. It didn't really tie into the story.
I also noticed at times that the writer seemed to forget that two of the characters were not from the US and she would stop using the typical English and Aussie phrases. Kind of hilarious I think.
Lastly, I also thought the graphic comments on the sexual activity (and I noticed it was not every time) were out of place with the style of writing and the flow of the book. I was quite surprised by the graphics on the swallowing comments...just didn't seemt to jive with the rest of the book.
Posted by: Mishka | October 17, 2006 at 11:33 AM