I learned that she's better at multiple povs than straight forward ones. And that you need to leave your versimilitude moments at the door and you'll be fine. Better than I anticipated.
I felt like this book jumped around a lot to feel more interesting than it already was. I would consider reading another book by this author but we'll see.
I fell in love with Sarah Mlynowski's writing after picking up a copy of "As Seen On TV." I know over the past few years I have read it 4 or 5 times. It is a great book that I know will pick me up when I have been reading too many books that are serious. It was a great book when you just want something fun to read. I then found her Magic in Manhattan series. Being a teen librarian, I was so happy to find something of hers that I could recommend to my students. When I saw that the ebook version of Monkey Business was available I was very excited to read something else by Mlynowski. The verdict... ummm, it was ok. It breaks my heart to say this as I loved so many of her other books but I just had such a hard time with this one. I liked it better than Fishbowl but otherwise I just never really cared for the characters. The summary of the book sounded great! I thought for sure that it would be hilarious but instead I just felt sympathy for all of the characters. They were just so pathetic that I didn't care what happened to them. Alas, not one for me.
Meh. Took me a month to get through when it should have taken me a week. I didn't really like or connect with any of the characters. They were all so flawed and difficult to enjoy. The plot was very predictable at times and quite annoying at other times. Not one of her best.
I was looking for a new chick lit novel to read, and wanted something comparable to Sophie Kinsella. I heard that Sarah Mlynowski had a similar fluffiness to her writing, so I decided to check out Monkey Business. I really liked the book and the writing, but I HATED the characters. I am sure they were written to make me hate them, since they are business students and MBAs are generally the douchiest of the douchiest.
I started off absolutely HATING the character of Kimmy, because she is everything I despise about how society views women. She is extremely shallow, hates/competes with other women, and is constantly criticizing her looks and does not believe that she is competent enough to be in business school when clearly, they accepted her. She also has the one-track mind of how to find a boyfriend, which makes me hate her even more. By the end, while I still didn't love her character, she had changed enough to make me not despise her.
I liked the book, and I decided to keep Sarah Mlynowski on my list of "Chick Lit Authors I like"