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Almost Home (2009)

by Pam Jenoff(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1416590692 (ISBN13: 9781416590699)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Atria

series

Jordan Weiss

review 1: This book was OK. It held my interest - it was a quick chick read. I can't quite call it chick lit because the story was not that challenging. The story is about a diplomat who returns to London to care for a very sick college friend. She has not been to England for 10 years, when she left after her boyfriend drowned. Returning to England makes her confront her fears - but at the same time she is trying to solve an international mystery - which appears to involve research her boy friend was working on prior to his death. The story was entertaining. But the main character seemed implausible. She seemed to sappy to have the skills attributed to her and her pining over her dead boy friend got tedious. The ending did have some twists - enough of a good read that I re... moread the sequel A Hidden Affair.
review 2: This book was not good. We were TOLD repeatedly that the heroine of the book was a badass, but we were SHOWN that she was a complete moron. If I started getting into specifics, this would become a really long review. (See switterbug's review if you'd like to know the extent of the problems with this book- and if you'd like a good laugh!)Additionally, the book was poorly edited, both from a grammar and a content/continuity standpoint. I read passages out loud to my family so that we could all laugh- even my 7-year-old daughter was entertained by phrases like, "But in the morning when I woke in the morning he was gone."Sometimes when you pick up a random book off a sale rack, you find a gem. But sometimes you find an "Almost Home" instead. Fingers crossed for the next time! less

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