Friends Like These

by Victoria Routledge | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0751527122 Global Overview for this book
Registered by ForeignExchange of Wijchen, Gelderland Netherlands on 2/20/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by ForeignExchange from Wijchen, Gelderland Netherlands on Friday, February 20, 2009
Humorous chick lit. Ever found that missing Malteser - all over the seat of your linen Jigsaw suit? Realised you remember the words to everything the Human League ever wrote - but not your seven times table? Photocopied your face out of boredom on a holiday temp job? Worried that you always look like Jo Brand in your friends' photos? Yes?

Well, meet Rachel, now out of university but not quite in the Real World, doing one of those 'Look, no hands!' jobs in a PR firm. When her best friend Alex persuades her to join in with Laura and Mike's engagement party in a Lake District cottage, she agrees with mixed feelings. For even Laura's meticulous arrangements haven't taken account of actressy Caroline, Rachel's bete noire, whose mysterious behaviour around the groom-to-be rings bells that Rachel hoped never to hear again...

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Journal Entry 2 by bookguide from Wijchen, Gelderland Netherlands on Friday, February 20, 2009
Brought to an ICON bookswap this afternoon. Now added to my Mount TBR.

Journal Entry 3 by bookguide from Wijchen, Gelderland Netherlands on Thursday, February 4, 2010
This certainly isn't one of the best chick-lit books I've read. I found the first 50 pages rather slow and found myself having to concentrate more than I would expect to for this sort of book. Apart from Rachel and her lovely boyfriend Fin, none of the characters were very appealing. In fact, the terrible thing about this book is the betrayal and backstabbing in a group of friends which is from the outside tight-knit and supportive, yet in which everyone remains on their guard and afraid to confide. Once the friends arrive at the house where they are going to celebrate Laura and Mike's engagement, the pace picks up, as the reader knows that something - probably something awful - is going to happen to break through the barriers. And that is what kept me wanting to reach the end as fast as I could, to find out what would happen. The final hours at the cottage include melodrama, revelations and farce, and the question is, will anyone end up happy at the end, or will everything have changed irretrievably? Of course, now I know, but I won't spoil it for other readers!

Journal Entry 4 by bookguide at Nijmegen, Gelderland Netherlands on Friday, February 5, 2010

Released 14 yrs ago (2/4/2010 UTC) at Nijmegen, Gelderland Netherlands

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Given to a friend who is getting married on Saturday, at the Sanadome spa, where we had enjoyed an evening soaking together.

This book has been released as part of the following BookCrossing challenges:
- The Ultimate Challenge - read and release books, with extra points for a monthly theme
- Reduce Mount TBR (To Be Read) - read and release books on the TBR list since before Jan. 2010. My reading goal is 75 books.
- Pages Read Challenge - read a self-set target number of pages in 2010. My goal is 24,000.
- Set It Yourself Challenge

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