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Book Reviews Title Last
Chance Saloon Fiction-Net
Rating Buy It
From Amazon.co.uk - BUY
NOW! Cover
Story Tara, Katherine
and Fintan. Best friends
since they were teenagers in the days of
legwarmers, pink stretch jeans and Duran Duran. Now
in their early thirties, they're living in London,
but so far only Fintan has managed to find true
love. Tara, stuck in a
dead-end relationship, believes that when you're in
the Last chance Saloon, even a man who keeps his
change in a little-old-ladies' purse is better than
no man at all. Katherine
wouldn't agree. Living a life of calm with her
matching bra-and-knicker sets, the only
relationship she wants is with her remote control.
Never mind that gorgeous Joe Roth, the new boy at
work, has offered to help her change the
channels. But when you're
not up for change yourself, life has a way of
changing for you. And fate, disguised first as an
illness, then as a good-looking, dangerous,
out-of-work actor called Lorcan, steps in to alter
all their lives in wholly unexpected
ways… We
Say The majority of
people are quite happy to drift along in life,
carrying on in the same comfortable way. But what
happens when something entirely out of your control
changes and you suddenly feel like you are in the
Last Chance Saloon? Do you grab that chance and
make a brave change or do you let it pass you by on
the basis that it's just a lot easier to accept
what you have got? These are the choices faced by
Katherine, Tara and Fintan. I have to say, in
the case of Tara and Katherine it is nice to see
their lives shaken up in this way. Before that
happens, although they are likeable and realistic
in many ways, they are also extremely frustrating
characters. Neither seems to know what is good for
her and as well as infuriating each other quite
often, they also infuriated me (and remember; this
is a very long book so it takes a while for
anything to look like it might change). However, I
am sure that this is a ploy from Marian Keyes to
make sure that we root for the characters to do
something about their lives and become closer to
them in the process. It does work, and because they
are so miserable without even realising it, you
desperately want them to discover what real
happiness is. As I have said,
this is a very thick book, which is not challenging
but is thoroughly entertaining. There is real
warmth and humour here and little in the way of
cynicism. By the end you will be racing through to
find out how it will turn out as lives and loves
hang in the balance. It's real girlie stuff and
best read in a sumptuous bubble bath with a cup of
tea and no interruptions. But be warned - you may
be in there some time. Review by: Rachel
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