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De Taarten Van Marie (2014)

by Claire Sandy(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

De Fontein

review 1: Charming, pleasant and well written story. Although light-hearted, it did cover a few interesting aspects of relationships, but I must say that it was a little hard to feel sympathy for a dentist/store buyer couple regarding their finances ... neither one on the breadline, nor anywhere near it one would think. Otherwise enjoyable and amusing, but I didn't find it 'laugh out loud' funny as other reviewers seemed to. Clever to have 'Mary Berry' in the title, given the popularity of the TV baking series, wish I'd thought of that!Reviewed in exchange for a preview Kindle copy.
review 2: I'm going to give this 3.5/5, so we'll round it up to 4. It started off well and there were a few jokes that made me laugh out loud but as I mentioned in one of my updates, it got a... more bit slow around the 2/3rd mark; I felt like I was treading water with all of the story lines being set up for the big reveal at the end.*spoilers*Naturally for a rom-com chick-lit book such as this, *everything* has to work out in the end. Lucy and Tod split and Lucy starts eating (shock, horror) and selling her antiques; Chloe meets her biological mother who is obviously no domestic goddess; Angus was two days away from Nev from Catfish helping to unravel his complicated email relationship; Robert finally gets rid of Caroline and Magda and sets up business *across the road* from Marie... Oh, I could go on but it's all just a little too predictable. The two girls working in Marie's dentist were incredibly annoying, especially Lynda with her need to keep calling out baby names throughout the last 50 pages of the book. The other one (Aileen) was a miserable cow and if had been Marie, I'd have fired her sorry arse long ago!The book was easy to read and overall, I liked Marie and Lucy and the way in which their relationship changes over the course of the book. I also quite liked Robert and I could picture the mischievous twins in my head, running around and plotting adventures.I think I'm chick-litted out after this; I liked the idea of it (even though I had no idea who Mary Berry was at the start) but I just thought it could've done with a few more twists and turns. Ultimately, I paid £4 from WH Smith so I don't feel too hard done by that it wasn't amazing. less

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