Sunday, November 30, 2014
Why Can I Be You by Allie Larkin
I need to stop looking at book reviews from readers. This novel receives rave reviews, and I just have to assume that they are all written by 18-20 year olds. Since I am a few years north of that age, I had a hard time relating to the characters in this novel. It's definitely chick lit - and although well written, it's so far fetched that it is simply silly. (Although someone somewhere loves it enough to make it into a movie! Coming soon!) Basically, it's the story of a young woman who goes on a business trip after being dumped by her boyfriend, and she is mistaken for someone else by a group of friends attending a high school reunion. Instead of correcting them, she decides to play along and become someone else for a week. Believable? No. I suppose there's a message in there - we should be happy to just be ourselves and not try to someone else - or something like that. But it was all just too predictable and fluffy for me. -June
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