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    <body><![CDATA[My rating for this novel is just OK... <br/>but i think it will become most favorite novel for someone who believe in love at the first sight..., who believe in miracle like something happened in the serendipity movie... <br/>this novel is funny in almost the end of the story but i think it can't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66264481">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was light, fluffy and funny..well, at least up to the middle of the book. After that, the story was getting not quite up to my taste. From the middle of the book, the center character was not only Josie alone but now also her cousin, Matt, and Damien. The story was now not only focused on Josie a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42346979">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bottom-feeder chicklit, both unrealistic and predictable. I could list all the ways this book annoyed me, but it's not even worth my time. I REALLY need to stop reading dollar books from thrift stores/the library and go back to reading fiction that doesn't perpetrate the stupidest, most sexist myths...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64101665">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved it. There was something funny on literally every page. I wouldn't say that it was predictable because there were some incidents that I didn't see coming. However, I found the end to be kind of corny,but it was generally an enjoyable read. I even found it so coincidental that sever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80455131">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book was okay... was pretty good until you get to the Duck part and then it seems the writer goes a little out of her head--that part doesn't match anything else in the book.  It's too bad that it's so close to the ending as well--because it kinda ruins it.  And hello--what man would really let ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29355183">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Cute, although I hate stories where people claim to be &quot;in love&quot; after spending five hours together. There should be a required sequel where they actually get to know each other and go their separate ways.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good summer fluff read that was light enough and not overly romantic or 'cutesy.' Didn't like it as well as other Carole Matthews' novels (I think &quot;With or Without You&quot; was a better story), but still held my attention. Pacing is pretty uneven, though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I must be easy to please.  Simple, predictable, humorous and an easy brain dead read.  It could really be a movie on LMN and I would be happy to watch it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Total fluff, but still entertaining. The end was lame in all its cheesiness (too cheesy, even for me!), but the beginning &amp; middle had lots of funny bits. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Jossie!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An English novel that was very fluffy and I read it in less than 24 hours so a very quick and light read. About a divorcee whose husband leaves her for another woman and how she comes to the U.S for her cousins wedding and all kinds of whacky sorts of events then ensue.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was fun when I was planning my wedding.  Just a fun easy read and a nice distraction from wedding planning.  It's always some sort of disaster in these types of books that makes you realize you have it good and to just chill out and enjoy the journey.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[After her marriage to Damien ended in disaster, Londoner Josie Flynn -- thirtysomething and single again -- is flying across the ocean to her American cousin's &quot;big mistake&quot; wedding. In her present &quot;love stinks&quot; frame of mind, the last person she expects to be seated next to on the flight is someone like Matt Jarvis. A recently divorced rock journalist, Matt is sensitive, good-looking, and remarkably attentive -- and before their plane touches down, Josie's smitten. So how can she hope to convince her cousin to cut and run when Josie is all ready to leap into love again -- with a stranger, no less, who might be just another Mr. Totally Wrong in Mr. Seductively Right's clothing?<br/>The point is rendered moot, of course, once they deplane and she and Matt go their separate ways. After all, Josie's got prenuptial confabs to worry about and that dreaded lilac chiffon bridesmaid's dress to wear. But Dante himself couldn't have dreamed up the hell <em>this</em> wedding is proving to be -- and when her dream hunk reappears and throws himself into the mix, Josie finds herself wondering how she -- or any unattached modern woman, in fact -- can hope to survive the new romantic rules of the twenty-first century.<br/>Already a bestseller in the U.K., Carole Matthews's <em>For Better, for Worse</em> is a deliriously droll, dead-on tale of marriage, sex, monogamy, and modern love.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nothing too serious here, but fun fare for the beach!]]></body>
    
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