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With Friends Like These (2010)

by Sally Koslow(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0345506227 (ISBN13: 9780345506221)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Ballantine Books

review 1: I really wanted to love this book. The relationships started out believable enough, but whether because of the thin personalities or the back-and-forth writing, it just fell short of expectations. The relationships between the girls were never cemented and seemed too contrived to relate to any of the characters. But good enough for a quick beach read if you just want something that is light chick lit.
review 2: I read this book for a meetup of the Weekend SD Book Divas! and had a great discussion. I think the majority of us agreed that this wasn’t the best book. The story follows 4 women friends in NYC as they were friends 10 years ago and then start to drift apart and have issues with each other. The story was told with each chapter being from one of the ... morefour women’s perspectives. Personally, I like this format because it’s interesting to have a first person account but from various viewpoints. The main problem with this book as that we didn’t get enough character development on any of the four characters and they all felt flat. It was hard to keep track of the 4 women and I kept thinking that the author should have used different fonts for each character. I really love the way that one of my favorite authors, Jodi Picoult, does this with her books. It really allows the reader to have a richer insight into the characters and more easily change perspectives with each narrator. At the meetup, we discussed how all four of the characters were not fully developed and did stupid things. We had a great time discussing our own experiences with female friendships and how the relationships grew or eventually dissolved. I definitely had a far better time at the meetup with my girls than reading this dull book! less

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