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Os Solteiros (2014)

by Meredith Goldstein(Favorite Author)

3.02 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Novo Conceito

review 1: I'm going to be hard on Meredith Goldstein, whose 'Love Letters' column is thoroughly enjoyable and for whom I had high hopes with this first novel. C'mon, Meredith, you're a better writer than this! Great concept, single folks caught up in the shallow couple-dom of an overly lavish wedding, but too many stereotypes get in the way of decent character development. I am reminded much too much of the world of Emily Giffin, and for that I am sorry. Better luck next time for Goldstein!
review 2: Wedding-weekend ensemble piece The Singles suffers from having precisely the wrong level of detail. Meredith Goldstein can't help but force as many song titles, brand names, restaurant addresses as she can. She tries to enrich her world and her characters' interests with a... morell this, but it mostly distracts from the story and dialog. At times I wondered if she wrote entire scenes strictly to include particular minutiae. On top of this, the novel was filled with lines that were supposed to be witty, but just fell short. It could be that I'm too new to the chick literature genre, and I should expect this, but The Singles feels like one chapter after another of people longingly recounting their experiences when they weren't single. If only more attention had been given to the intrigue of characters interacting at the wedding and less to the background necessary to appreciate those interactions. For these reasons, I might argue that the book was actually too short. There were many characters, and while I continued reading to find out what would befall them, I didn't have a much of an idea who any of them were until close to the end. And all the events of the wedding seemed to happen too fast for how grand the occasion seems to have bee.Goldstein writes Love Letters, boston.com's love advice column. I reveal myself as a follower of it. While The Singles provides quick entertainment, it seems like a lazily fictionalization of Meredith's letters and own college and post-college experiences. less

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