Don't waste your time on this one, I felt like ripping my hair out on several occasions. Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There, This Charming Man, The Brightest Star in the Sky, The Mystery of Mercy Close, The Woman Who Stole My Life, The Break and her latest Number One bestseller, Grown Ups. Absolutely no surprises along the way either, it is blatantly obvious who Lucy will end up with from the moment he's introduced, and every other plot point is predictable and cloying. : Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married: 9780380796106: Keyes, Marian: Books. I really have trouble believing this is written by the same author as Last Chance Saloon and Sushi for Beginners, as this book is just riddled with horrible characters, tedious dialogue and a plot that is shallow at best. The protagonist, Lucy, is whiny, obnoxious and very faux-modest, and the dialogue is often either stilted or irritating ( take for example the constant need to address a person by name at the beginning or end of EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE.) The narrator definitely didn't help, as she had none of the charm usually possessed by Marian Keyes' narrators, and managed to make everyone sound even more entitled and awful. William Morrow & Company, 24 (448pp) ISBN 978-8-8 Lucy Sullivan, the eponymous heroine of Irish writer Keyes's second. However, this book didn't contain a single likeable person. Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married Marian Keyes. I usually love Marian Keyes, I find her tone of writing very funny and down to earth, and her characters are always relatable and human.
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