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Aphrodites Workshop Für Liebesfragen (2009)

by Marika Cobbold(Favorite Author)

2.85 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Goldmann Verlag

review 1: Nothing I've read with Greek gods comes off as anything more than a clumsy, hackneyed joke. It's an appealing idea, and part of why I read this anyway, but it fails here too. I was annoyed by Aphrodite's overdone behaviour as a therapist. No one would have sat there for that. I thought the point of the book was going to be the solution to the problem of the dissolution of romantic love. It was a little more interesting than that, only offering the foolishness of hope and persistence as a solution, but it could have been made more powerfully. I liked the relationship stories. Overall, enjoyable, but like almost all novels that have a gimmick, a concept, needed better execution.
review 2: This was kind of cute. I thought it was a bit of a throwback to so... moreme of the author's earlier work, with more whimsy than Frozen Music or Shooting Butterflies, which are my favourite books by her. This was probably a bit too quirky, actually, for me, what with Aphrodite and Eros actively entering the fray, but the marriage stories that she included as Rebecca searched for tales of happy marriages, actually help anchor the story down as they were quite realistic and, I think, showed some of the common relationship problems like taking a partner for granted, lack of respect (sometimes mutual), and failure to value and cherish the person since living side-by-side, even with a common cause, is not enough to keep love alive in any form, let alone a romantic one. Some great observations and well-written. The story wrapped up quickly, as now seems typical for the author and I wish she would stop as I enjoy her writing style and don't appreciate the rushed feeling and rapid endings. This is probably not a keeper for me and maybe a part of that is that I have been waiting for such a long time (since 2004) and this was a bit light and brief. less

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