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Title: First
wives club, the
Author: Olivia Goldsmith
Genre: fiction/humor
Rating: 
When her best friend
Cynthia commits suicide, and leaves a message in which she stated a big part of
her reason was her husband Gil, Annie knows she wants to get even with him.
Together with her two friends, Brenda and Elise she sets up the First Wives
Club. They want to take all their first husbands, the bastards, down, each in a
way that will hurt them the most.
That's all there is
to say about the story and I have to be honest
here, I struggled to get through. The plot never became interesting enough to
really grab me and the characters were too "one-dimensional" for my
liking. That may work in a film, the movie version is funny, but it isn't enough
when you want to make a funny book. And that's another thing: Where authors like Helen
Fielding and Marian Keyes are funny,
Olivia Goldsmith tries hard to be, but she just doesn't get it done in my
humble opinion.
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