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Beach read...

Great summer read! Funny, loved the characters...yes, it is light, yes, it is predictable...so what...it was a great, feel good read and one I would reccommend!

Not her best

Highly predictable but still a lot of fun! A good vacation read.

Fun chick lit!

Enjoyable read but not one of Jill Mansell's best. To start with it was incredibly long and when I thought it was wrapping up, it just kept going on and on. It's like the author had a heap of good ideas for a book but probably needed to select the best few rather than cramming them all in the one book. I loved nearly all the secondary characters but couldn't stand Miranda! She seemed a little too pathetic and annoying to me and I couldn't understand why every man she met seemed to fall madly in love with her. Without spoiling the plot, the whole Greg story line fizzled out pretty early on and was a bit of an anticlimax. This was disappointing considering it was supposably the main story line. A fun read, but have definitely read better stories by Jill Mansell.

I picked up a Jill Mansell novel a few years ago because I wanted a quick and easy break from reality. But it's getting harder to do that with Jill Mansell books because they just seem so ridiculous!! It's not the HEA that bugs me it just seems so poorly done here. Perhaps her books have always been this OTT but I was to stressed/unhappy to notice it before.

I still have a few books of hers on my shelf. I will read them as I paid for them but then it's straight to the charity shop with them!

Jill Mansell has become something of a go-to author for when I need a light, feel-good book that doesn't take too much brain power to concentrate on but is still entertaining, well-written, and funny. Sure, they're not high literature, and there's an element of predictability (these are happily-ever-after romance stories, after all), but her characters are typically likable, quirky, and fun to read about. I also love England, and Mansell generally does a great job of setting the scene, especially with her books set in fictional Cotswold villages and Cornish coastal towns. This one takes place in London, so the location was less distinctive. I have felt a need for plenty of escapist reading lately and have zipped through a lot of Mansell's books over the past year or so, but this was one of the ones I enjoyed the least. It had its moments, and I really liked some of the secondary characters, but the main character, Miranda, was kind of annoying at times, and overall the story just didn't grab me as much as many of Mansell's others.