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The Mistress (2009)

by Martine McCutcheon(Favorite Author)

2.98 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0330504487 (ISBN13: 9780330504485)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Pan Publishing

review 1: I really enjoyed reading this book. I felt that Mandy's character reflected me a little, because of her bubbly, outgoing yet concerned personality.The ending was surprising to me, it vwas not what i expected. But after finishing the book i was thankful that McCutcheon hadn't just left the story as a big happy ending, with them living together as a family.It portrys that life is your own and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. As long as it suits you and your happy living it, it doesn't matter.
review 2: Well, where do I start?? I don't usually read books written by celebrities, and I should have stuck to my guns. This book was the biggest pile of poo I've read in a long time. It's only saving grace was that it wasn't too long and I didn't feel like I ... morewasted too much of my time. Everything else is so saccharin, I felt like poking my eyes out most of the time. The book is written in the third person, so it doesn't really make sense for the narrater to describe literally everything in her life as beautiful and wonderful and perfect, the list goes on. She slips constantly in the views of the other characters, which just doesn't work and jars us from the story and from getting know Mandy. There's so much telling and not enough showing, and she constantly repeats hereself, 'God, she loved London', God, she loved her flat', 'God she loved George'. Which brings me to my next point. Her bestest friend (she has three of them), is gay and is a walking cliche, please can you make him anymore camp Martine? The other threads in the story include a storyline where her sister Olivia's husband is having an affair too, so she whines a little bit about that, but doesn't really change her mind about her affair with a married man, even when her sister tries to commit suicide. I hated the ending - all the way through the book we are told repeatedly what a strong, career minded, 21st century chick Mandy is; then why the hell does she allow Jake to go back and live with his wife (who doesn't want him anyway), when she finally has him? As far as I'm concerned the last two chapters are totally unneccessary. She should have just ended the book with the birth scene, which was sickly and perfect, but a bit more believable than the actual ending. All in all, as you can tell, I was hugely disappointed, as I've read Martine's autobiography and know she could have drawn on some of her life experience to write a better book than this. Martine, if you feel like writing another book in the future, please do yourself a favour and get some writing lessons, and shame on you Curtis Brown for representing this drivel!! First of all Mandy the main character is so sickly sweet, she is far too perfect to be believeable. It would seem her only flaw is falling in love with a married man. less

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