Post-listen review.

How do I begin to describe how bad this book is? Well, for starters bad doesn't do it. This book was horrendous. If I could give it negative stars I would.

I know that movies and television and magazines get a lot of blame for brainwashing girls into being too much into looks and clothes and things like that. Those forms of media are light-weight offenders compared to this drivel.

The woman that is the focus of this book is consistently described as being smart and funny while continually being fooled by everyone around her and sobbing over men. It is non-stop. Also she is described as being "Brainy and ditzy" in the same sentence. I am no language expert but I don't think the two descriptions can apply to the same person. I wish I could say she was just ditzy cause then at least her getting kidnapped would make me feel sympathy for her. Nope, instead she is just whiney and annoying.

She starts the book by leaving her fiance a note saying it is all over and flies off to Paris, never telling the guy where she is going. Then she goes to Monte Carlo again without telling him. She immediately starts to hook up with the guy who randomly sat next to her on the plane (so she is obviously really committed to her fiance now isn't she?) and then when her fiance shows up she says, "What took you so long?" Dude. What took you so long? If I dragged myself off to Monte Carlo in search of my fiancee and found her on a date with another dude that she met on the plane and she said that to me? I would be very single right then and there. That is just not acceptable adult behavior.

The men in the book are all hyper-masculine yet sensitive. And for men who want to know how to be sensitive, here is what you do to show your sensitivity, go shopping and by things for whomever you are dating. When the woman Sunny (the main character) globe trots off to Monte Carlo what does she do? Shoe shop. How does she know her fiance really cares about her? Because he knows she "isn't a lace girl". When she is conflicted between which guy to choose what does she do? Shop. And constantly in the book Mac (the fiancee) thinks about things he did, or would or will buy for her. So that of course shows his commmitment to her as a person and how he respects her right? And of course he is constantly telling her how smart and funny she is, despite the fact that she shows no signs of being either. He doesn't even seem kind of insulted that A. she left him and B. she is about ready to go for another guy given five more minutes.

The reason that Sunny leaves Mac is that he had to delay the wedding they were supposed to have to investigate a murder. Which seems like a fair enough reason to me. And of course Mac is ultra wealthy because he has a private eye reality television show. (as so many men do really)

Every woman in the book was all about clothes and looks and every man in the book was a perfectly formed specimen. Even ones that might be villainous scum. Almost everyone, male and female, including the THIEVES (why steal if you are super rich??) is super wealthy. And the only person that has children in this whole book seems to be the woman that was murdered. Because children are less important than dresses.

If that wasn't enough, I have to tell you that this book is actually not just about relationshipes. It deals with a jewel heist and murder. Some of that part wasn't terrible but it was utterly predictable. And finding out who killed random people was mostly background noise to who Sonny was going to be with. And who her friends were going to be with. And how her friends would all come together and go shopping to help Sonny. The whole getting kidnapped and almost killed by international terrorist thing was just kind of an aside really. Because shoes are much more important.

And if I had heard the words Ugg boots one more single time in this thing I would have chucked the box across the room.



Pre-listen guess

I can tell from the cover of this I am going to hate it. I wanted to skip listening to it but then I would be violating my rule for my audiobook shelves which is just that I have have to listen to all audiobooks at the library from A-Z with the exception of books I want to read in print.