Pick Up Original Cyn Developed By Sue Margolis Displayed As EPub
the acclaimed author of Breakfast at Stephanies comes a hilarious new novel about falling in love, breaking the rules, and other sinful pleasures,
A junior copywriter at a London ad agency, Cynthia Fishbein is the original good girl, She works hard, never complains, and takes care of everyone around her, Even Cyns therapist tells her shes too nice, But all thats about to change when a catty coworker steals one of her ideas,
So Cyn goes her one better: She steals the womans identity,
Suddenly shes breaking out of her shell, concocting a wickedly brilliant scheme to salvage her careerand maybe get a little revenge in the process, And once Cyn gets started, she just cant stop, Soon shes breaking therule of group therapy by dating Joe Dillon, the groups sexy commitmentphobe, Leading a thrilling but terrifying double life, embroiled in a deliciously forbidden affair, she is having the time of her lifeuntil her scheme starts to backfire in a major way.
And unexpectedly Cyn is faced with a crisis that threatens her career, her relationshipand just might finish off her sterling reputation for good, British Chick Lit I am a huge fan of British Chick Lit and of Sue Margolis, Her books are always funny and not always predictable which is nice, I particularly liked this book, . . the car that Cyn gets is hilarious! I can imagine her having to drive it around and the image alone keeps me laughing for several minutes,
A junior copywriter at a London ad agency, Cynthia Fishbein is the original good girl, She works hard, never complains, and takes care of everyone around her, Even Cyns therapist tells her shes too nice, But all thats about to change when a catty coworker steals one of her ideas,
So Cyn goes her one better: She steals the womans identity,
Suddenly shes breaking out of her shell, concocting a wickedly brilliant scheme to salvage her careerand maybe get a little revenge in the process, And once Cyn gets started, she just cant stop, Soon shes breaking therule of group therapy by dating Joe Dillon, the groups sexy commitmentphobe, Leading a thrilling but terrifying double life, embroiled in a deliciously forbidden affair, she is having the time of her lifeuntil her scheme starts to backfire in a major way.
And unexpectedly Cyn is faced with a crisis that threatens her career, her relationshipand just might finish off her sterling reputation for good,
Meh. There was potential with the "good girl gone bad" theme, but Cyn's entire characterization is built around her "not being like the other girls", which makes it hard to invest in her personal progression.
Besides that, this story just DRAGS on, The author spends too long trying to build up essential plotlines that by the time we actually get to the essence of the story, you're already bored.
Potential was there, poor execution, Liked it, of course predictable in the end, but glad Cyn and Joe got together, Okay, looking at the length of time this spent on my "currently reading" shelf you would think I had given up on reading it or at least rated it with fewer.
The truth is, while the first half of the book took me nearly one and a half years to read, the second half literally flew by, I think I became intrigued when a love interest appeared and the story wasn't all about work anymore, I understand why some of the plot lines were included in the book, however, it just really felt like it was two separate stories and the author tried too hard to make them one.
Ultimately, this got three from me for the romantic comedy aspect and some unanticipated spiciness, This book wasn't really that great, even for theI spent on it, Plus, there are a lot of editing errors/typos throughout the book, For example, one of the protagonist's best friends is Hugh, but he is often referred to as "Huge" throughout the book, You think someone would have noticed that in copy editing, This is the third book Ive read by Sue Margolis, I have two more at home waiting for me, They are all light fun romcoms in a book, but this was my least favorite, It get a little clunkier than the other two, So far, the main character, Cyn, is almost unbearably irritating, I'm gonna keep reading though, because I don't like not finishing books, Also, one of the reviewers had a spoiler on the main book page, so unfortunately I know what's about to happen, Super annoying.
Update.
So, this book had the least sexy sex scene I've ever read, I'm no prude, but saying "bush" is a turnoff, in my opinion,
The end was better than the beginning and middle, Though in my opinion, Cyn got off way too easily in the end, and also all the loose ends were hastily tied off, too neatly to be believable, in a postscript.
Like the author just couldn't be bothered,
I can't remember my opinion of "Breakfast at Stephanie's", to know if that was more redeeming, but I wouldn't recommend this book, I got this at a resale amp got it for lack of better choices, Although I'm not big on these type of books, this was funny amp well written, It's one of those twisted stories, Cyn is some really goodietwoshoes person and never blames anyone, until that witch of a coworker stole her idea, And so Cyn takes revenge one step furtherstealing the coworker's identity while she's in the hospital, making a giant web of lies, It didn't exactly blow open my world, but this book was a perfectly fine mindvacation, I am putting these boo this and Gucci Gucci Coo together because they from the same author and I accidentally read them back to back, And thinking back about them, they are really the same book, just slightly different backdrops, But all the characters are the exact same and the exact same thing happens and the outcome happens in the same way, Not that I didnt enjoy it, but looking back, I love connecting books, but this was
a bit much,
Girl is a Jewish Brit, I love that, because its so so so rare! Has a weird family, but loveable, Boy enters girls life through weird path and has secrets, but she doesnt really think about them, When she does try to push, Boy gets defensive and doesnt want to revel everything, When he finally does, its lame lame lame, Girl gets pissed that Boy didnt tell her in the first place, but the whole thing is lame, Girl uncovers some secret at her job, but doesnt want to say anything, but it doesnt matter anyway, because the people keeping the secrets end up “are not able to hold it in any longer, so they tell anyway”.
Aint that handy! Girl ends up forgiving guy and they end up happily ever after,
I swear to god, both books are exactly like that, just different jobs and boys, sort of, Sorry if that made no sense, but if you read them, youll know what I was talking about, Not that you will, because I give them both a meh,
Grade: C Cute story, Brit Chick lit, hankypanky
Cyn has always been good, but when a coworker pushes her to far she strikes back by taking her identity.
The crappiest book in the world, After reading it, I threw it away in the trash, Just an average chicklit. Kept me reading but kept me frustrated also, There are very few authors that can do the "guy has a secret" thing well, Sue Margolis is not one of them, Cyn's irrational reactions to Joe's secrets wrecked the story for me, this book was SOOO funny! OMG, . . i literally had to put it down a few times because i was laughing so hard, Also, the author wrapped up all the characters' ending very well and thoroughly,
I think it would make a fantastic funny film! Fun, easy read, Sue Margolis is the author of nine books, which have than half a million copies in print from Bantam Dell, She lives in England, where shes at work on her next novel, Sue worked as a reporter for the BBC, before leaving broadcasting to write her first novel, She lives in London with her journalist husband Jonathan, They have three grown up children, Sues hobbies include napping, constantly interfering in her childrens lives, not going out, eating especially the remains of the previous nights take out curry straight from the fridge, and watching made for TV true life movies in her PJs.
She died of lung cancer, aged, Sue Margolis is the author of nine books, which have than half a million copies in print from Bantam Dell, She lives in England, where she's at work on her next novel, Sue worked as a reporter for the BBC, before leaving broadcasting to write her first novel, She lives in London with her journalist husband Jonathan, They have three grown up children, Sues hobbies include napping, constantly interfering in her childrens lives, not going out, eating especially the remains of the previous nights take out curry straight from the fridge, and watching made for TV true life movies in her PJs.
She died of lung cancer, aged, sitelink.