Holiday season. Everybody likes to chill out and read a good
book on holiday and as a change to reading my post-colonial lit books for uni I
picked a few chick flicks to read by the water in the sun…bliss! The first book I picked was one I had had on
my Kindle for ages – I downloaded it around Christmas time as one of the top
100 Amazon ebooks. The best part is that it was free and as a result, I didn’t
have very high expectations of it. I began to read kind of absent mindedly,
just enjoying the fact that I didn’t have to think about analysing the context
and every minor detail. The more I read, the more I had to keep reading…
Though many people would not find this anything special, I
thought the plot was good, fast-paced, and could easily have reflected the life
of someone in the real world. It had everything – the perfect relationship, the
troubled relationship, the hot guy hero to save the damsel in distress, the day
job troubles – all this, and Jean Oram still managed to address some of the
worries and questions that many people are too afraid to voice in broad
daylight, which made the whole story seem more personal and realistic. The book
was completed with a good old happy ending, just how we like it!
I’m not getting into the debate about what is and isn’t considered ‘literature,’ but for a god holiday read, or something to relax the old noggin, I recommend this. It’s described on Amazon as a ‘Chick Lit Contemporary Romance’ and in my opinion, it certainly lives up to this!
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