Raw, racy and rambunctious, this novel is funny, fast-paced and incisive. I would never have read Collins if a friend wasn't a fan. I was expecting saccharine melodrama, not satire. The characters float through the unexpected, trying to remain cynical throughout but Collins does a great job of showing the chink in the armour, making the protagonist a likeable one, naive and soft in his own way, despite his bravado and conceit.
Full of pizzazz and 70s glamour, this book was a crisp and quick read which I definitely enjoyed! ( )

prettty shallow. not much story line to it. ( )

A uni forced read, this book was categorised as a "sex-and-shopping" novel. Now, that's also the term used for chick lit, so I was intrigued. Did I have here the grandmother of all chick lit? Uhm, no. It's a fast romp and reads like the gossip column of Hello! magazine. Which isn't a bad thing in and of itself. What I didn't like about it was the fact that in the end, nothing changed. If you shuffled the names around a bit, and replaced the names of places, you could just slpa the last chapter in front of the first chapter, and off you go again. no one's learned a leson, changed or grown as a result of the story's little twists and jabs. I also don't like glamour novels in general, so this book was off on a bad start. Still, it's not nearly as horrible as our lecturer makes it out to be. ( )

De Macho... Zijn naam is Tony Blake. Hij is knap, arrogant
en ambitieus. Geen vrouw is tegen zijn charmes bestand. Tony
is gastheer van een besloten nachtclub. Op een dag maakt hij
kennis met Alexandra, de achttienjarige dochter van zijn
bazin, en het duurt niet lang of hij realiseert zich dat de
dochter hem heel wat meer geneugten te bieden heeft dan de
moeder... ( )

A uni forced read, this book was categorised as a "sex-and-shopping" novel. Now, that's also the term used for chick lit, so I was intrigued. Did I have here the grandmother of all chick lit? Uhm, no. It's a fast romp and reads like the gossip column of Hello! magazine. Which isn't a bad thing in and of itself. What I didn't like about it was the fact that in the end, nothing changed. If you shuffled the names around a bit, and replaced the names of places, you could just slpa the last chapter in front of the first chapter, and off you go again. no one's learned a leson, changed or grown as a result of the story's little twists and jabs. I also don't like glamour novels in general, so this book was off on a bad start. Still, it's not nearly as horrible as our lecturer makes it out to be. ( )