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ClareR (6054 KP) rated Still Me in Books

Apr 28, 2019  
Still Me
Still Me
Jojo Moyes | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
10
8.7 (31 Ratings)
Book Rating
A very enjoyable return to Lou!
This hasn’t had the best reception from fans of the first book, and many didn’t seem to like the second book either, but I’ve loved them all. This one in particular seems to have a very fitting end.
Lou goes to New York to live her best life. She’s the companion to the wife of a very successful man. Lots happens, of course, and she ends up making her own career choice at the end. Lots of man trouble with Sam (the paramedic), and a Will Traynor look-a-like (looks, not temperament). I loved it.
  
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ClareR (6054 KP) rated Sweetbitter in Books

May 4, 2019  
Sweetbitter
Sweetbitter
Stephanie Danler | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
5
5.0 (3 Ratings)
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A year in the life of a young woman who moves to New York and gets a job in a high end restaurant. Tess is 22 and lives life to its fullest - that’s if you count drinking hard, taking drugs and hardly sleeping as living hard. She learns a lot about food and wine, but not so much about personal relationships.
This was heralded as the book of Summer 2016, but I’m afraid I found it boring. Nothing much happens, she’s so self-centred as to be a rather unpleasant character. Reading this feels like time I can’t get back, I’m afraid!