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I'm always interested to read books by my twins, people who like me were born on 26 April 1967 (see also Warren Read and Trish Doller). This one is frankly not as good as the other two, but it is closer to my personal experience, being the story of a confused Catholic student's sexual experiences at university; not terribly erotic, funny in places, you can see from quite an early stage how it's going to end. Our heroine has an unusual sexual red line; she's OK with sleeping with boys under the right circumstances, but she is saving her first orgasm with a man for her marriage. Everyone is entitled to their own kinks, I suppose. There's good local colour of central Illinois (the university is referred to as Central Illinois University, but it's clearly meant to be Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, and there's a field trip to Springfield). ( )

I thought this was an okay book. I did have issues with how judgmental Jen was about other people's choices. I didn't really like her as a main character. However I liked the supporting characters so that helped. It did definitely bring back memories of college. ( )

I have been intrigued by this book since the first time I laid eyes on it! I was finally able to read it!

Overall, Three Daves is a good read. It was nothing special to me personally. It was a “read it and forget about it” book for me.

I was afraid during the first couple of chapters because reading from the Bible happened with a cute guy and we all know I ‘m not a fan of religion in my books. But after that, no more religion…I was relieved. This along with every chapter ending with a Psalm almost had me setting this down.

Trust me, this book isn’t religious. We watch the main character grow and change during her college years through her relationships with three different men named David. She makes mistakes and she learns from them. She changing her outlook regarding sex and relationships towards the better.

I almost forgot our story takes place in the 80’s! Three Daves isn’t overly 80’s just enough to reminisce. How did we live without cell phones?! ( )

This is a book about discovering who you are. The three daves in the title are three boyfirends each representing a different type of relationship. The dave who is upwardly mobile and will be able to aford a good lifestyle in the future, The dave that is "cool" but in the end is only about himself. Then there is the dave that is actually the correct person for you.
I can see shades of my friends growing up, the way that they changed to be more the girlfriend that was wanted. But in the end they are all back to being themselves and those who were not with the right man are not with that man.
The language used is decriptive and I can see all of the places. but the story flows without any lurching. Although she does some things that I would not do I emphathised with her throught the story.
it is a little like holiday reading, just better

This was provided as a pdf and converting it to read on my Kindle resulted in odd page breaks with headers and footer seemingly randomly scattered throughout. although this didn't prevent me from reading it did cause a disjointed effect. Presumably a proper ebook would not suffer these problems.

It turns out I'm not the kind of reader the story is aimed at. I thought I would be - I'm about the same age as Jen, but British not American, and went away to University. I don't know if the differences are purely cultural: there were a lot of brand names that I didn't recognise, although I could usually tell from the context what sort of item was meant, I got the music references, I knew of the existence of the Fraternities even if I'm not sure what they are for etc but I felt like an outsider as I read - I didn't really empathaise with any of the characters and found most of them either clichéd or completely unmemorable.

And what an extraordinary attitude to sex! I've come across the idea of having sex with someone you don't really care for just to gain experience so that you're 'better' at it when you meet someone more 'serious' but the idea that oral sex 'doesn't count' or as long as you don't orgasm you can still believe you kept yourself for 'the One' is bizarre.

The biblical quotes scattered around seemed out of place and unnecessary. I looked at the Omnific page and it doesn't seem to be a specifically Christian publisher so I assume that it isn't a requirement for their books to link to the Bible in some way. It must be the author's choice.

I like to read the occasional light romance/Chick Lit but I shan't be looking for any more by this author. ( )