Review: A material girl read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
Once I got past the first few chapters overladen with a twenny-something's fixation (author and main character) on rampant materialism, I enjoyed the story, but it's definitely a fluffy material girl read.Jill Parnell, pushing 30, a lawyer hoping to make managing partner in her firm, gets passed over for the position by her boss's nephew. A cute love story develops when she asks the groom's best man to pose as her boyfriend to get a job at a rival firm. A comedy of errors ensues. The story improves, and the sub-plot with her parents is interesting.But goal-driven all-work-and-no-play Jill is such a whiney, self-absorbed, shallow character, I wanted to shriek "Grow up!" several times. I get that's she's supposed to get a life and that part of the storyline is interesting. I also didn't find the supporting characters compelling enough, to be enticed to read any sequels in the Better Date Than Never series.The central subject, a woman who is passed over for a job in favor of a man because of nepotism is serious subject matter (in a famous landmark case, my grandfather fought SF City Hall and won), but this "best-selling" writer is immature and repeats stock phrases throughout the book, rather than crafting compelling sentences of her own. Deleted.