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A review by goblin_reaper
About a Girl by Lindsey Kelk
3.0
Sometimes we have to try on a few different personalities before we found ourselves.
I haven't got round to reading any of the 'I Heart...' series, so this was my first taste of Lindsey Kelk. In the beginning, I did find it hard to enjoy the main character, Tess, I found her attitude a lot more immature than her actual age. I found the plot clever, funny, and liked the fashionista route it took.
Tess is wrapped up in her job at an advertising agency, so it is a terrible shock to her when she is unexpectedly made redundant. Then she finally gets to sleep with the man she has had a crush on since they were both at university, but it doesn't turn out the way she had hoped. Following a case of mistaken identity, Tess takes on a photographic assignment in Hawaii.
It’s definitely a girl book. It’s got escapism, humor, sexiness, and even some real romance tucked in there.
Tess is the typical, little clumsy, pretty, very average kind of girl. Then we have Nick, the oh-so-handsome, perfect, and somewhat egoistic guy. Things go up and down and in the end… (See for yourself :b)
The evil roommate’s character was slightly unbelievable but provided certain necessities for the plot and some humor in the end. The main character’s love interest in Hawaii was written well enough that her raw sexual attraction to him was very…err….believable?
I like how it was written. The writer knows exactly how to capture her readers. It is funny, sad, touching, exciting, and absolutely insane at one point. I love that the main focus is the career of the protagonist through her romantic relationship is a big part. I hate how she is such an irresponsible drinker, and all these body issues parts, such clichés.
I'm not interested in fashion photography, so it didn't hook me on that and since I didn't like or relate to the main character I really had nothing to grasp onto.
At some point, everything just felt very slow and very frustrating and I almost felt like stopping reading this book but I'm glad I didn't. The story got better the longer I had read it.
Overall this is no Pulitzer Prize novel (Read about that award somewhere ┐•_•┌ ) but that was never its intention; what it does aim to do (be fun and entertaining) it does and delivers plenty of the levity that a great beach read should.
There are lots of glamour, lovely clothes, food, cocktails, etc., lush Hawaiian scenery, and naturally a gorgeous man. Although nothing in the rest of the book is as funny as the hilarious incident near the beginning where Tess meets the world's most hopeless mugger, the story was entertaining enough to keep me reading to the end. I might even read the sequels.
I haven't got round to reading any of the 'I Heart...' series, so this was my first taste of Lindsey Kelk. In the beginning, I did find it hard to enjoy the main character, Tess, I found her attitude a lot more immature than her actual age. I found the plot clever, funny, and liked the fashionista route it took.
Tess is wrapped up in her job at an advertising agency, so it is a terrible shock to her when she is unexpectedly made redundant. Then she finally gets to sleep with the man she has had a crush on since they were both at university, but it doesn't turn out the way she had hoped. Following a case of mistaken identity, Tess takes on a photographic assignment in Hawaii.
It’s definitely a girl book. It’s got escapism, humor, sexiness, and even some real romance tucked in there.
Tess is the typical, little clumsy, pretty, very average kind of girl. Then we have Nick, the oh-so-handsome, perfect, and somewhat egoistic guy. Things go up and down and in the end… (See for yourself :b)
The evil roommate’s character was slightly unbelievable but provided certain necessities for the plot and some humor in the end. The main character’s love interest in Hawaii was written well enough that her raw sexual attraction to him was very…err….believable?
I like how it was written. The writer knows exactly how to capture her readers. It is funny, sad, touching, exciting, and absolutely insane at one point. I love that the main focus is the career of the protagonist through her romantic relationship is a big part. I hate how she is such an irresponsible drinker, and all these body issues parts, such clichés.
I'm not interested in fashion photography, so it didn't hook me on that and since I didn't like or relate to the main character I really had nothing to grasp onto.
At some point, everything just felt very slow and very frustrating and I almost felt like stopping reading this book but I'm glad I didn't. The story got better the longer I had read it.
Overall this is no Pulitzer Prize novel (Read about that award somewhere ┐•_•┌ ) but that was never its intention; what it does aim to do (be fun and entertaining) it does and delivers plenty of the levity that a great beach read should.
There are lots of glamour, lovely clothes, food, cocktails, etc., lush Hawaiian scenery, and naturally a gorgeous man. Although nothing in the rest of the book is as funny as the hilarious incident near the beginning where Tess meets the world's most hopeless mugger, the story was entertaining enough to keep me reading to the end. I might even read the sequels.