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Make or Break
Scritto da Catherine Bennetto
Narrato da Anna Acton
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Romantic comedy with heart, perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Lindsey Kelk and Mhairi McFarlane.
Jess, a 29-year-old Londoner with a Kate Beckett fringe and a tendency for dramatics, gets taken on a surprise trip by her long-term boyfriend, Pete, to attend her best friend’s last-minute wedding in South Africa. Jess imagines sun, sand, wine and safaris. And returning to London with an ethically mined diamond on her left hand...
But this holiday isn’t set to be quite the fairy tale Jess has planned. Suddenly she finds her world tilting on its axis, and things are only set to get worse when Jess returns home....
Catherine Bennetto is back with her trademark wit and an equally hilarious cast of characters who will have you rooting for them from the first minute.
Azioni libro
Inizia ad ascoltareInformazioni sul libro
Make or Break
Scritto da Catherine Bennetto
Narrato da Anna Acton
Descrizione
Romantic comedy with heart, perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Lindsey Kelk and Mhairi McFarlane.
Jess, a 29-year-old Londoner with a Kate Beckett fringe and a tendency for dramatics, gets taken on a surprise trip by her long-term boyfriend, Pete, to attend her best friend’s last-minute wedding in South Africa. Jess imagines sun, sand, wine and safaris. And returning to London with an ethically mined diamond on her left hand...
But this holiday isn’t set to be quite the fairy tale Jess has planned. Suddenly she finds her world tilting on its axis, and things are only set to get worse when Jess returns home....
Catherine Bennetto is back with her trademark wit and an equally hilarious cast of characters who will have you rooting for them from the first minute.
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Character development saved this book for me, I Loved It! I struggled with Jess for the first part of the book and didn't think I was going to be able to continue, but I'm so glad I did!
Rating: 4The main character is the most childlish / selfish / infuriating woman ever ! I wanted to like her at first, but really I wouldn't stand her in real life. I don't know why her family / Friends put up with her ? She's judgemental, whiny, makes no effort to ever change and expect everyone else to be accountable to her. I wanted to scream to her : GET OVER YOURSELF. I listen to audiobooks as a background when I do manual work or drive, but even without my whole attention I couldn't get throught the end. I honestly throught she would be called out for her attitude and get a wake up call but after a while I realised the author wasn't going this way. I stopped listening before the end, I hated the main character too much, and this is quite exceptionnal for me to do.
Rating: 1What made this book so great? This is the first fictional book that I have read that features Cape Town specifically and South Africa in a broader sense. I enjoyed learning about a place that sounds fascinating especially through the funny lens of a shark-phobic, snake- phobic kindred spirit. A large part of my enjoyment was the setting.
Jess, the heroine, was clever and humorous. The other characters were three dimensional and I fell in love with several of the supporting characters, especially Diego, Lucy and (gasp) even Flora. Jess, rather than her romantic life really takes center stage in this book.
I listened to this as an audiobook (obviously,) which is a different experience than reading an ebook. Sometimes an audiobook improves the experience, and sometimes it ruins it. In this case, I enjoyed the narrator’s storytelling and preferred listening over reading .
The book felt like it was two parts; not only in the setting between (largely) South Africa in the first part and London in the second part but also in the focus. The first part centers mostly around her love life while her relationship with her family takes center stage in the second.
Readers who want full frontal focus on love story will possibly be disappointed but while I’ve become accustomed to this in recent reads, I adapted because the author did such a good job of addressing the complicated matters of the heart.
Although I think I would have appreciated a bit more tightening in editing, (and by that I mean letting go of some sentences that added bulk without enough story enhancement, particularly the bar where Jimmy worked,) I found Catherine Bennetto’s tale to be entertaining, thoughtful, thought-provoking and damn funny!
Rating: 5Jess, the heroine, was clever and humorous. The other characters were three dimensional and I fell in love with several of the supporting characters, especially Diego, Lucy and (gasp) even Flora. Jess, rather than her romantic life really takes center stage in this book.
I listened to this as an audiobook (obviously,) which is a different experience than reading an ebook. Sometimes an audiobook improves the experience, and sometimes it ruins it. In this case, I enjoyed the narrator’s storytelling and preferred listening over reading .
The book felt like it was two parts; not only in the setting between (largely) South Africa in the first part and London in the second part but also in the focus. The first part centers mostly around her love life while her relationship with her family takes center stage in the second.
Readers who want full frontal focus on love story will possibly be disappointed but while I’ve become accustomed to this in recent reads, I adapted because the author did such a good job of addressing the complicated matters of the heart.
Although I think I would have appreciated a bit more tightening in editing, (and by that I mean letting go of some sentences that added bulk without enough story enhancement, particularly the bar where Jimmy worked,) I found Catherine Bennetto’s tale to be entertaining, thoughtful, thought-provoking and damn funny!