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 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Buchan
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 716617
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 8
Pages: 10
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 5.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 1565117514
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781565117518
ASIN: 1565117514
Publication Date: February 10, 2003
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 Don't Bother! June 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book to be dreadful. I don't even know why I finished it. I would speed read through sections that were unbearable and pointless only to be disappointed with the main plot that never went anywhere. The title looked intriguing but this book was anything but that. I have to say that I will not be buying or checking out anymore books by this author..no matter how delightful the titles may sound.
 Where is the revenge? May 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Title does not fit the book. All she does is roll over and let the world walk all over her. I was dissapointed there was no revenge, even at the one point in the book it would have been easily available to her.
 not great/not bad April 11, 2007
This was an entertaining read. Nothing so gripping or so wildly entertaining that I couldn't put it down, but it was a good 'no-brainer'. Once again I find myself grateful for the 'bargain books' section where I found it. How I long for one of those books that I just can't put down, that I stay up until the wee hours absorbed in......seems like forever since I've had my hands on one.
A Tepid Tale April 10, 2007
This novel could have been a gripping tale of a marriage's end, but instead it read like a watery, detached account from a woman who'd given up long ago. Am I the only reader who rolled her eyes when Rose basically lay down and played dead when she lost her job to her husband's new paramour? Talk about giving up without a fight. Maybe it's the American in me, but I would have been at the lawyer's within minutes after that encounter.
I had trouble believing that the woman dealing with her philandering husband with such equanimity and lack of emotion was the same Rose who trekked through the rainforest and longed for adventures a few decades earlier. Where did all the passion go? Rose also seemed much to eager and willing to take on responsibility for Nathan's behavior, saying she "should have known he was unhappy." Bollocks!
Despite these complaints, many of the secondary characters -- Poppy and Alice, in particular, were compelling and fun to read about, and rang quite true. I would have liked to see that same level of quirkiness and personality in Buchan's main characters.
"First Wives Club," this is not. But it is an interesting, thoughtful look at marriage, love, and relationships, and what makes them work.
Read it only if you love to be sad February 21, 2007
This book is nicely written with characters you fall in love with - but then the author rips apart their lives. The book ends with pretty much everyone sad, their lives mundane and definitely no revenge. There are no happy people in this book - just people getting by, barely. And yes this may be a look into what real life is like but most of us have already realized that as the Buddhists say "all life is sorrowful".
Don't read this book if you are looking for light entertainment.
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