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Cargando... The Disengagement Ring (edición 2009)por Clodagh Murphy (Autor)
Información de la obraThe Disengagement Ring por Clodagh Murphy
Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  samnreader | Jun 27, 2020 |    ) juniperjungle | Apr 16, 2013 | ) juniperjungle | Apr 16, 2013 | Kate O'Neill is engaged to boring, tree hugger Brian, but has always had feelings for her brother's best friend Will. When he offers her a job as chef to the band he manages in Tuscany, sparks are re-kindeled. (  ) coolmama | Sep 26, 2011 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A summer cooking for an ultra-cool rock band sounds like the job of Kate O'Neill's dreams. So, when Will Sargent, manager of Walking Wounded, asks her to cook for the band while they record their new album in Tuscany, she jumps at the chance. Even though it means spending three months apart from her fiancé Brian, it gives her a chance to get away from her interfering, eccentric family who've made it all too clear that they don't approve of her engagement. But little does Kate know that the job is all part of a plot hatched by her mother, Grace, to scupper Kate's wedding plans. Brian, a wannabe New Age shaman, has never fit in with the larger-than-life O'Neills and Grace is convinced that Will, old family friend and unrequited love of Kate's life, could provide a change of direction for Kate's affections. But Grace doesn't count on Will's glamorous, model girlfriend, Tina who is determined to hang on to him at all costs. As the long, hot Tuscan days drift by, temperatures in the villa start to heat up. Will Kate finally learn to stand up to her meddlesome mother or will she find her feelings for Will are stronger than ever? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Having read and really enjoyed [b:Some Girls Do|19286433|Some Girls Do|Clodagh Murphy|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386543296s/19286433.jpg|27334627] then accidentally paying for KU, I thought I'd try another by the author.
It was disturbingly bad. Not only did I feel like plot-wise it was a slightly more refine Rachel Van Dyken-which is not a compliment by any stretch, within 30% I saw transphobia, a lot of comments on size, and by the end there was casual treatment of addiction, orthorexia, anorexia all in a screwball, cheap laugh kind of way. Very much like Rachel Van Dyken's books strike me. Like the prior book I read by this author, the main character had a zany best friend who was gay. In this book, you basically never forget that. He come off disturbingly like a prop, but then again, so do all the characters-of which there are entirely too many to focus.
In the end, there's a nice dose of xenophobia-again for cheap laughs. There's a lot bitchy females, other than the wonderfully wonderful main character and maybe one or two others.
so yuck, gross, I'm totally bummed out by this. I was kind of fascinated when I started (it's the whole she traveled Africa and now she's hot because she lost weight) and then I thought I'd just take one for the team-and because this book has a whopping 4.something on here. The only way it deserves that is by being a wholly different book. Like completely rewritten. Absent that, I'd go for quiet removal of the transphobia and cheap body shaming jokes--or wait, maybe, yeah, just rewrite the book. It's too woven into the fabric. (