PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
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Book Reviews of PS, I Love You
Book Review: Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
I had such high hopes for this book. The basic storyline - an ill husband who'd known he would not live past February and who left his young wife a series of notes for her to read in the months past his death - sounded so promising, especially for a romantic sap like me.
Oh, I liked the first few sentences enough. But from the second page on, reading P.S. I Love You began to get painful - and not because the story was so tender and heart wrenching, but because the writing was so choppy, weak, and poor. It read like my attempts to write weepy love stories in junior high, when I knew not much about love or how to develop a character (or a storyline, for that matter). And while I understand completely that this is, of course, chick lit, and not something from which one should expect too much depth, it is just so far beneath the funny work of talented queens of chick literature (like Sophie Kinsella and Emily Giffin) that it's a shame I can't find my receipt and return this disappointing read.
Here's hoping the movie will be a vast improvement.
Book Review: Common
Summary: 1 Stars
I have recently dicovered the whimsy and fun of chick lit. However, I found this bit of chick-lit to be very pedestrian and drab. A common girl, newly widowed, who wallows in her pity party. While some of her reflections on her loss are downright beautiful and worthy of a hanky, the premise of this book could have done without the very naive, meandering, and sloppy writing style. I would like to see how this authoress might actually tell this same tale when she's 40. Ripe with sitcom, easy, shallow laughs, the young women portrayed in this book lack any ounce sophistication. While the idea of this piece is intriquing (her husband leaving her monthly notes after his passing that assist her with moving forward in her life without him) and clever, I found the characters to be boring and very common. Doubtful I will read anything by Ahern again even for escapist fun.Book Review: No originality whatsoever... stolen plot?
Summary: 1 Stars
I haven't read the novel... only the main plot summary. There was a Korean movie, released almost a decade before this book was ever published, with a VERY similar storyline: newlywed couple, husband asks the wife what she wants most from him, she asks for a letter, he's never written a love letter before but tries anyways, gets a BRAIN TUMOR, passes away, and then a few days later the wife starts receiving letters from her husband... letters telling her how much he loved her. It just seems way too similar to be coincidence... I mean, he dies the EXACT SAME WAY. I'm 25 now (turning 26 in October), and I remember watching the movie when I was a sophomore or junior in highschool. It's called "Byun-jih" (Letter), if you're interested. Way to go Ahern... you, like Paolini, don't have a single original thought in your head. Nice.Book Review: Content had potential, writing style ruined it.
Summary: 1 Stars
I never finished this book. I gave it a hearty attempt more than once until I realized I felt like I was suffering throught it, and gave up. The storyline grabbed me. I wouldn't doubt that it would have been a wonderful book, had I been able to ignore the horrifying writing of this novel! After trying to ignore the writing, I realized I couldn't. Things didn't always flow correctly and I found myself rereading things to make sense of what was written.
If easily bothered by choppy writing and lack of style entirely, skip this book. You'll be happy you did.
Book Review: Awful, derivative, poorly written
Summary: 1 Stars
One has to wonder if Ms. Ahern would have found a publisher for her astonishingly bad novel if she was not the daughter of Ireland's Prime Minister.
The book shows no talent for writing at all. The plot is derivative. The writing isn't merely awkward. It is downright unreadable.
Touted as a best seller, Ms. Ahern should pay restitution to the trees from which the paper was made to print her thoroughly awful book.
If there was an option for zero stars I'd use it.