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Book Reviews Title Sushi
For Beginners Fiction-Net
Rating Buy It
From Amazon.co.uk - BUY
NOW! Cover
Story Prada-wearing
magazine editor Lisa Edwards thinks her life is
over when her 'fabulous' new job turns out to be
deportation to Dublin, lauching Colleen
magazine. Might her new boss, the dishevelled and
moody Jack Devine, save her from a fate worse than
hell? Ashling Kennedy,
Colleen's assistant editor, is an
award-winning worrier, increasingly aware that
something fundamental is missing from her life -
apart from a boyfriend and a waist-line. She
desperately envies her oldest friend Clodagh
'Princess' Kelly, who is apparently living the
domestic dream in a Siematics Castle. So why,
lately, has Clodagh had a recurring urge to kiss a
frog - sleep with a frog, if truth be
told? We
Say Marian Keyes
really knows how to write great big satisfying
books. She also has a knack for creating characters
that either feel like friends as soon as you meet
them or have hidden depths and motives to be
uncovered. Consequently, reading one of her books
is like meeting up with your pals for a very long
gossiping session and speculating on others
behaviour to try and work out what they are up to.
It's all good fun - and Sushi for Beginners is no
exception. The story centres
around three women; Ashling (insecure, single but
funny and warm), Clodagh (beautiful, married but
lonely) and Lisa (hardened, media type but
secretive). You're probably thinking that they
sound like stereotypes and you'd be right, but
fortunately, Marian Keyes knows how to flesh them
out into real people. She voices their thoughts
effectively and through fast-paced but carefully
plotted events their responses make them real.
My one criticism
is that the male characters are not developed in
the same way and tend to drift around the
periphery, either being handsome and mysterious
boyfriend material, quirky and unattractive
bloke-buddy material or simply cheating rogues.
They are used merely to move events
along. I was gripped
throughout and, despite being another long book,
Sushi for Beginners never slackens off or becomes
dull. It has a bit of everything - love, laughs and
tears. It's one of those books that you'll get to a
certain point and just not be able to stop reading
until you get to the end. Review by: Rachel
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