Farm Fatale: A Comedy of Country Manors

Farm Fatale: A Comedy of Country Manors

2001 • 356 pages

What to say....what to say.....

I didn't love this book, but then I didn't hate it either. It was just....there. Rosie wasn't that bad of a character, but I never really got a sense of who she really was. I definitely got a sense of other characters. Like Samantha and Mark. Awful, awful people. I don't understand at all why we were stuck in Samantha's head at all. I kept waiting for the moment when something changes for Samantha, when she realizes she's a horrible person, but that never comes. From the synopsis I was expecting a much different couple. The story would have been just fine if she was never in it, albeit much shorter.

Everything kind of dragged on and then suddenly took this sharp turn and as the pages flipped away with very little pages left to read I wondered how things were going to get wrapped up. Holden wrapped everything up in about 7 pages. It was kind of disappointing. And predictable.

I still have two other books by Wendy Holden to read for the off the shelf challenges. Hopefully they'll be a little better than this one. I'm generally a sucker for brit chick lit, but this one didn't thrill me.

January 17, 2014