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The Minus Ones (2012)

by Meredith Goldstein(Favorite Author)

3.02 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Penguin

review 1: I liked the book but didn't love it. It was a quick read and I really liked the characters but I wish the author had gone deeper with them. I could feel the missing conversations and there were too many open ended stories for the characters involved. It's too bad because I think this is a really great start and could have been fantastic but it just didn't go far enough with the character development. It did remind me a lot of sex and the city at times and I couldn't help but laugh when the author mentioned the show within the book.It was a bonus to say I was able to see the author and hear her read a passage from the book and ultimately it did inspire me to buy the book. I think she has a great future if she could invest the time to take it to the level that we are all loo... morek for when we hope to get lost in a book.
review 2: I thoroughly enjoyed this book and devoured it in one day. Granted, the motivation to read it quickly was partially due to the fact that I'd be meeting the author a few days later, but reading it was a treat, not a chore.The Singles offers glimpses into five peoples' lives who have all RSVP'd as single to a wedding. There's three old college friends of the bride, all in their late-twenties, each of whom has followed a different life path. Then there's the "creepy" uncle of the bride and a fellow who's been sent in his mother's place. Goldstein cleverly introduces us to each character in a genuine way that gave me the sense that I immediately knew them. Each character is likable and I found myself routing for them, and yet each character is flawed and thus identifiable on a more human front. Being a single girl in my mid-twenties I felt right at home with this crew of characters, and I'm sure most of us have been there or are there. The seemingly endless wedding circuit for friends and family highlights many of these scenarios in our lives. I did love that is was a wedding book that didn't focus on the marriage of the bride and groom but rather on the guests.Meredith Goldstein was also fantastic to talk with. She's fun and entertaining, a perfect compliment to her book (or is it vice versa). In talking with her it was quite obvious that she holds a deep connection to each of her characters, parts of them real and parts of them fictional, but in the end, in the written form, they are all hers. She has certainly discovered a new fan in me. less

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