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Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Mr. Jan 07, Laurie rated it did not like it Shelves: library.
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This could have been a good book if the writing hadn't been so awful and if some of the story elements had been reconsidered. The basic premise had a lot of potential, but the sentence structure was incredibly choppy and the dialogue was terrible. The same character would go on about something for several paragraphs in a row without interruption, then suddenly change the subject in the last sentence.
Also, the characters used each other's names excessively. It's almost like the author had to kee This could have been a good book if the writing hadn't been so awful and if some of the story elements had been reconsidered.
It's almost like the author had to keep reminding herself who was speaking to whom at each point in the story. I enjoy romantic suspense novels so the switch didn't bother me that much, but I do wish the romance between Pete and Lily had been better developed. The prologue outlines the single time Lily and Pete met when they were in college, so we know from the outset that they didn't know each other well back then. However, when they meet again 19 years later, the author tries to convince us that there was a lot more between them than there really was.
For example, Lily miraculously knows details such as Pete's donor number, which I don't think he mentioned during their first meeting.
Even if he did mention it, it's incredibly unrealistic to expect that Lily would remember such a tiny detail after nearly two decades had passed. Pete and Lily decided that they were in love with each other WAY too quickly.
When they meet up for the second time, they spend nearly every second focusing on finding Josh and figuring out the secrets behind the fertility clinic. They have almost no personal conversations at all, yet somehow within a couple of days Pete is telling Lily how much he loves her and asking her to give up her entire life to get married and move to Montana with him. They know virtually nothing about each other and suddenly they're both going to walk away from their companies to move to Pete's ranch in Montana?
It didn't make any sense to me at all. Aside from the speed of their courtship, Pete was such an arrogant egomaniac that I couldn't figure out what Lily could possibly see in him. Lily herself was an afterthought for much of the story; other than one short chapter in the beginning of the book, the story is told from Pete and Josh's perspectives, with occasional glimpses into what's going through Tessie's mind.
Even though she was supposed to be the story's female lead, I really didn't get to know Lily well enough to understand her character. The part of the story that featured Josh and the other children from the school was incredibly bothersome as well. First of all, Josh mentions several times that the Internet is his life. Why on earth would the people in charge of the human testing program allow the children to access the Internet?
Wouldn't they want to keep the kids cut off from the world so they wouldn't be able to tell anyone what was going on at the school? Second, Josh knew way too much about the outside world for someone who had been so isolated from it. Sure, his teachers probably told him a lot, but he still should have found it a lot more difficult to get along outside of the school. Third, what was the author thinking when she decided that Josh should start talking to ghosts? I nearly quit reading right then and there because it was just so out of left field.
I'm really not sure why I kept reading since we already knew who was behind the fertility clinic and that they were using the children as human lab rats. I guess I just couldn't stand the thought of not finishing what I had started.
I should have saved myself the time and aggravation because the story only went downhill from there. Overall, I would not recommend this book for anyone. Thank goodness I was able to find it at the library because I would feel incredibly ripped off if I had actually paid money to read it.
I've read a few books by Fern Michaels in the past and don't remember them being so poorly written. Either it's time for her to retire or the other books I've read were so bad that I've blocked them out of my mind.
In any event, I won't be picking up anything else of hers in the future. View all 3 comments. May 16, rivka rated it it was ok Shelves: bookswaps , romance-and-womens-lit. A fun read, but chock-full of plot holes and stuff that makes you go "whuh?! But really, the implication that 2. And neither does the degree of guilt before they know what's going on. Plenty of people donate sperm or eggs without the slightest twinge. Neither seems to be guilt-susceptible in general.
So yeah, that didn't work for me. But the biggest issues were with the whole we're-breeding-guinea-pigs scenario.
In the US?!? And then doing what, using them as test subjects with no signed waivers, and with underage subjects and submitting the results to the FDA? Obviously that wouldn't work, so this must be before the "real" FDA tests.
And given the high rate of med-taking noncompliance among their subjects at least 3 of about a dozen , not the most reliable studies, anyway. Now, selling organs in black markets overseas, that I might have bought. Oh, come ON. View all 4 comments.
Jun 23, Leah rated it did not like it Shelves: The description of the book is very misleading. It appears to be a love story, however, that is barely expanded in the book. Fern Michaels seemed to have had trouble deciding which type of book she wanted to write so she combined a love story, murder mystery, paternity case, ghost story and FBI story into one. I felt that none of the story lines were developed and pieces were just thrown together.
Some characters did not have names and were called "the man", "the boy", and "the soccer player" un The description of the book is very misleading. Some characters did not have names and were called "the man", "the boy", and "the soccer player" until half way through the book.
Poorly written, poorly descripted and one of the worst books I've ever read. View 1 comment. Dec 23, Kristin rated it it was ok Shelves: adult-chick-lit. This is the first book I've ever read by Fern Michaels because I've always considered her and for several years I actually thought Fern was a man to be an author for old ladies. I was delightfully suprised by how much I liked this plot. I could not always enjoy the plot, however, because I was so appalled by the atrocious dialogue.
Seriously, I do not think dialogue could get more unrealistic than this! One character, who is supposed to be having a "conversation" would speak uninterrupted for This is the first book I've ever read by Fern Michaels because I've always considered her and for several years I actually thought Fern was a man to be an author for old ladies.
One character, who is supposed to be having a "conversation" would speak uninterrupted for paragraphs and the characters said each other's names every single time they would speak.
It drove me crazy! That said, I'll probably read something by her again if my reading list runs short. Jan 01, Janno rated it did not like it. This was a painful read. The plot had potential but it took forever to fully develop and then everything resolved too quickly yet with many loose ends. The love stories were not believable. Aug 01, Donna rated it it was ok. I wasn't crazy about this one. I thought the couple's angst over their donations was too over the top.
I knew more about the dog's emotions than I did about the main characters. And the ghost of Tom I really don't think that was a good fit for this novel. I think this novel tried to be too many things.. Nov 25, Jennifer rated it liked it. There was a great deal I did not like about this book but liked it enough to see it through to the end.
Jan 21, Rachel rated it really liked it. Really got into this book super fast. The prologue had me but by Ch. I HAD to take breaks since im mom to 4 but i started this upon stumbling onto a few new books today on sale thru a fb page i follow and despite being well into a number of books which is something very new to me as opposed to finishing one fully before moving on to another, the concept of this one had me starting it and ive no doubt ill b finishing it t Really got into this book super fast.
I HAD to take breaks since im mom to 4 but i started this upon stumbling onto a few new books today on sale thru a fb page i follow and despite being well into a number of books which is something very new to me as opposed to finishing one fully before moving on to another, the concept of this one had me starting it and ive no doubt ill b finishing it tonight. Ill let you know my opinon of how it plays out and the denoument but im really enjoying it and totally engrossed Im in Ch 4 FYI.
I rate each book based on how much I liked it and how good it was for this particular genre. That said the characters are likable and living a bit of the great American dream for many of us so as long as you're not looking for the best book you've ever read this was a good read. I just wish they'd gone a bit more in depth in a number of parts of the whole including the budding romance which due to being so pg rated felt a bit surface.
Again it was still an entertaining read even if I can't say it was perfect. Aside from the characters the topic was timely and interesting. View all 6 comments. Mar 29, Jean St. Amand rated it it was ok. Why do so many authors feel it necessary to shove an unnecessary love story into a story? Peter and Lily met and spoke for literally 5 minutes 19 years earlier but after a day or two together they are the loves of each other's lives blah blah blah.
The story idea was an interesting one that could have been better without that, and then Zolly and the reporter had to have THEIR love story added. Josh was extremely naive because of his institutional upbringing I get that Then to add two visible ghosts at the end Again, the story idea was a good one but there was too much nonsense added making a potential 4 only be a 2. Feb 02, Ahn rated it did not like it Shelves: dislike-very-much , unfinished.
I think that the concept of the plot and story was awesome but the writing was off and choppy. It did not flow together and, I did not know who's viewpoint was telling the story.
The writing was not up to par. Naming of people wasn't good at all, some people were called a girl or a boy or maid then turned into her name.
Not telling us her maid had a name. I really had high hopes for this book and it really spit in my I think that the concept of the plot and story was awesome but the writing was off and choppy. I really had high hopes for this book and it really spit in my face. Great concept but bad delivery. I could not finish the book, because it was that bad. I love to read books and hope to one day write my own, and reading really bad ones aren't going to help. Maybe by a few examples of sentences or paragraphs but not novels.
Too painful. Aug 06, Jenness rated it liked it. I listened to this one and it was enjoyable. Pete and Lily, two college students in need of money to pay their tuition, donate sperm and eggs at a fertility clinic to raise the money needed for them to finish college.
The long term effects of such donations is not one I had given much thought to. Presenter Fern Britton has signed up to front a new series of ITV1 gameshow All Star Mr and Mrs alongside Phillip Schofield despite speculation that she wanted to pursue solo projects after it emerged that she was paid less than her co-host. It was confirmed today that Britton will appear in the third part series of the Saturday night show, in which celebrity couples answer questions about each other.
ITV and the agents for Britton and Schofield declined to comment on the claims when approached at the time by MediaGuardian. Britton announced in March that she would break her seven-year presenting partnership with Schofield on daytime series This Morning by leaving at the end of its current run next month.
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