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The Cottage on Sunshine Beach
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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Everything I expect from Holly Martin! Lots of fun characters and laughs with a few "Oh no!" moments along the way! Another awesome chick lit lovely from one of my favourtie authors!!! Anglophiles unite and buy Holly's books...you will not be disappointed :c)
  
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
Eva Rice | 2007
8
8.0 (2 Ratings)
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On the surface, Eva Rice’s debut novel The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets seems almost like “chick lit”. On closer inspection it really is much more. You can read my full review here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2015/01/31/an-artistic-novel-and-thats-no-secret/
  
While I personally despise the label, I'm afraid that this book fits into the "chick-lit" category perfectly. Seriously, a book about a young woman's struggles with her nasty female boss who takes away her whole personal life in the name of fashion could hardly be something you'd see your macho male plumber reading, now could it? So yes, it's 100% pure, unadulterated "chick-lit", and anyone not looking for some fluffy, light reading material may close this review right now - I doubt you'll be interested in reading more. You can read my full review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2014/07/26/a-story-of-sins-and-fashion/
  
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This is a Love Story
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
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All this book did was frustrate me! Chick-lit is definitely not my favourite genre, however I can cope with it on occasions. This book is one of those that reminds me why I steer clear of chick-lit!

Lovely little fairy tale story line, boy meets girl, girl meets boy and guess what... that fall in love! But do they admit it? Nope, not until your brain is crying from the nonsense of it all! I wish these books would come up with a different story line of boy and girl love each other but don't tell each other for ages, Pride & Prejudice tells that story perfectly well, we don't need anymore!
  
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Secret Santa
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Four Christmas novels - two romance, one mystery, and one chick lit. I bought it for Laura Levine's mystery novella featuring her sleuth Jaine Austen. I loved it as always. Two of the other stories were enjoyable, but Fern Michaels's contribution was just plain bad on all fronts.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/12/book-review-secret-santa-by-fern.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
(Un)like a Virgin
(Un)like a Virgin
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
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I&#039;m not a huge fan of chick-lit at all. I prefer something a little more exciting than just following a woman around in her daily life.
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That&#039;s not to say I didn&#039;t like this, because it was okay.
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I have this thing where covers attract me to books and come on! It&#039;s a really fun, funky cover. But as&nbsp;I&nbsp;mentioned above chick-lit is not one of my favourite genre&#039;s. In fact, this was a DNF after 111 pages out of 400 and odd, though I did skim through the pages and what I thought would happen, didn&#039;t.
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I still liked Gracie and I&#039;m sure that if I could have brought myself to pick it back up and continue that I may have liked it. But from the 100 or so pages I read it was okay.
  
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An Ex to Grind
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
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I really, really wanted to like this book. Unfortunately, through most of it I found the main character annoying and...well, kind of a bitch. It's possible that's what I was supposed to think, but since it was written in first person, it prevented me from really connecting with her. If you're a big chick lit fan, though, I could see that it might be enjoyable. Alas, it was not for me.