Es verdad que es de las novelas más flojas de la autora, pero me gusta que al final vaya de sentimientos feos como el rencor y el despecho, que a veces están poco explorados

Drie en een halve ster. Maar halve sterren kun je niet geven.
Drie verschillende vrouwen hun leven is met elkaar verweven. Gemma en Lily waren vriendinnen. Jojo is de uitgeefster van Lily. Lily was beste vriendin van Gemma totdat ze haar Anton afpakte.
Nu heeft Lily een bestseller, haar man en een dochtertje. Gemma is stinkend jaloers. En dan gaat haar vader na 35 jaar huwelijk weg bij haar moeder. Voor een vrouw die 2 jaar ouder is als zij! Lily voelt nog steeds de schuld van het afpakken van de vriend van Gemma. Maar het gebeurde gewoon.
Mooie feel good roman tegen de achtergrond van de uitgeverswereld en auteurs.

Marian Keyes has a habit of turning terrible characters into interesting literature. She wants to make you feel for women things you wouldn’t feel normally.

That being said, there’s no point I think in putting too many plot twists in a book. Perhaps it’s just been a while since I read a Keyes book. This one has no sex in it (she writes very good sex scenes). Lily and Gemma’s luck change throughout the book - with Lily winning back her man, and going onto big cash - while Gemma’s rising star book supposedly plunders, she’s suddenly an atheist (though this is not mentioned until midway), she used Owen for sex, and now she’s left giving up on writing as well as staying with the pharmacist guy. (Though it was hinted before Lily would give up on writing - instead Lily took everything Gemma wanted.)

I don’t say this to pardon Gemma, but frankly, if you hint that Anton and Lily are over, you might as well drop the ball. Let the worst fears realize. I think Keyes sympathized with Lily too much instead. You can’t play too many games on your reader. There was that part where Gemma was becoming a success and Anton said, “Maybe I picked the wrong girl.” Then stops talking to her and starts planning Gemma’s book. Then goes around and says it was money related guilt. Homeboy. Please. It was never about the money for them. Still they continued on, separated by money, and reunited by nothing more than money.

No offense, but if you wanted this end with Lily, you should have started with her and made it mostly about her. That being said, they both deserved some good-I just think it would have been better if Anton went back to Gemma, and Lily to the pharmacist with maybe the book royalties. Then Lily would have backbone, and Gemma could heal those sex and alcohol infested wounds. She wouldn’t have turned into the predictable cynic (though funny enough, this happened more so after her parents split - come on you’re a grown woman.). The book kinda hinted at a sudden upheaval, went on the more predictable route setting Anton and Lily as some kind of couple to aspire to. Which was disappointing, not gonna lie.

Then the author totally dropped the ball on Jojo. She’s left with nothing. You wonder why you even read her story really. Lily is left with love, Jojo is suddenly a home wrecker. Mark never left his wife, not reallyZ

So no I didn’t like it. Compared to Rachel’s Holiday, Sushi for Beginners, and This Charming Man (where every character gets some kind of dessert) - this is just plain mediocrity. The book being about writing was interesting, but it’s way too focused on the publishing world - like some moral battle between the characters. Compared to her other books, I probably won’t read this again. Sorry.

It took a while for this whole thing to come together but it did eventually and was pretty good, but then I'm a fan of Marian Keyes. This is the interwoven story of three women all involved in writing in some way or another. Like most of Keyes' other books there are a host of quirky characters that provide some funny moments.