Wonderful novel and audiobook!

This is one of my favorite books. It's funny, entertaining, and romantic. The reader did a great job and kept me interested.

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Entertaining

A good book to pass the time. Narrator was great and the characters were interesting although the story line was average.

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“I don’t want you to respect me. I want you to want me.”

Those are lines spoken by the protagonist of this book to her love interest. I chose this book for a fun summer listen but was so disappointed by the plot and the female lead. The character development of Bette was terrible; she has no backbone, allows people to walk all over her, and is so obsessed with her love interest that it seems her whole world revolves around him by the end of the book. I ended up feeling very embarrassed and irritated with the main character. This book is the opposite of female empowerment and left me cringing. The narrator did a good job of bringing life into the book, but the storyline itself was not at all what I had hoped for.

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Love the story, but PLEASE drink some water!

This is one of my favorite books! I never get sick of listening to this story. The one thing that drives me CRAZY is the saliva sounds the author keeps making. I just want to offer her some water.

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Agonizing Performance

Of the hundreds of books I've listened to, this is in my Top 3 worst performance - or maybe it's the editing. The pauses between thoughts, the gasps for breath, the lack of real inflection made me wonder why people say it's a good performance. The book could have been shortened by 25% (it's overly long) if the editing had reduced these crazy gaps and gasps.

The story was average, by far the weakest of Lauren Weisberger's books. None is really stellar but they offer mindless relief from the more serious news of the day. The story would have gained strength if it were more listen-able. (Actually I'd have switched to print but didn't want to spend more money on a weak book.)

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Not the best

While I enjoyed the performance, it wasn't my favourite as I found Bette spineless and wishy-washy. I got that she was caught in between, but about half way through, her whole "I'm sorry, I have no choice, it's my job" routine was getting old. I felt compelled to yell "own your choices girl!" at my iPhone. To be fair, this feeling is undoubtedly exacerbated by the fact that this is my fourth consecutive Weisberger read, and this is a definite common trait with her heroines. Even so, I found Bette just a little bit worse than the others, so many aspects of her life were a farce.
That aside, the performance was great and the story isn't bad, my main issue is just that I couldn't identify with the main character.

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Bad

A math book is less boring. I think she got a ghost writer. it's that bad.

Predictable but enjoyable.

Light hearted, you know the end within a few chapters of the beginning. Easy, fun and enjoyable.

good book too long to get to no points at all

too long of a book with too many famous names dropped and really no point to the book at all

Story fantastic, narrator not so much

I adored the story but the narrators voice was hard to get through. Very awkward pronunciations.