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Jessie ♥ NYC (2000)

by Keris Stainton(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 2

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review 1: I can't say I particularly enjoyed this. I was waiting for the romance to start and they only met after 170+ pages out of the 250. Okay, they were always in the same place at the same time and caught fleeting glimpses of each other but they only properly met then.It was more a tale of family and relationships than a romance.One thing niggled at me in this: The John Lennon bit. How would Jessie remember her mum being so upset over his death when it happened ten years or so before she was even born? Confused!The thing with Ben, I'd more or less figured out before Jessie, it was the look in the lift that did it.It was okay but not something I would normally have chosen to read. I more or less picked it because of the cover. It's very shiny and pretty.
review 2: So... more, as I read it in the original, I'll try write the review in english, but if I give some grammar errors, feel free to correct me.First, I hate the synopsis, 'cause it tells the whole story. I mean, after it, it was obvious that they'd fall in love with each other and I was waiting for the first meeting and the second and all others which would follow and I stopped enjoying the narrative for real, and that's kinda bad, I guess. Second, I have a crush on New York or the idea I've of it, since I've never been there, unfortunately, but what matters is that it's a magical and perfect place for a love story. Well, the book is written in a dual-perspective, which is pretty cool 'cause it's insane to think that two people are in the same city and we're following their lives that are happening at the same time but are completely diferent from each other. There's Jessie, a british teen who'll spend the summer holidays with her best friend, Emma, at her mother's house, and she also hopes to forget her badass ex-boyfriend with Ben's help. And there's Finn that is in love with Sam, his best friend's girlfriend, and also doesn't know how to say to his father that he wants to change his major.I thought that's fantastic Jessie being a tourist in NYC, 'cause it led me to make great tours, even though imaginary, and I enjoyed hearing, or reading, about thousands of wonderful places related to movies, although I've not seen a third of them, but now I want to, of course.I didn't fall deeply in love for the characters. I liked Jessie, 'cause she's youthful and enthusiastic, and I liked Finn, 'cause he's so adorable. But, for me, Emma was a pain in the ass, 'cause she was all over the places and I kept thinking why the hell she doesn't go away when Jessie and Finn are together and it upset me. And Scott, Finn's best friend, is fine , but he's forgettable, 'cause I didn't knew his name when I finished the book. With regard to Ben, he didn't won me over too, 'cause I realized what was going on in the elevator scene. I liked the friendship between Finn and Scott, 'cause I thought they really relied on each other and they understood each other's problems. And I also liked the fact that Jessie had begun to work things out with her mother, 'cause it touched me when she began to realize how much her mother loved her and how everything had been misunderstood. In conclusion, it was ok, but not good enough for more than two stars (and a half), 'cause Emma's presence ruined most of it and, mostly, 'cause it was really predictable. less

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