Enjoyed this book and especially loved the recipes too ( )

I received this book through a Goodreads giveaway.

From the blurb it appealed to me due to the main character having an urge to leave her job and do her own thing, so I can relate to that.

But it didn't grab me. The main character appears in many other chick-lit novels under a different guise. Has the same kind of friends, the same problems etc. There was too much worrying about what to wear. Yes a lot of us do it, but I don't enjoy reading about it. I also think the author tried too hard to be witty with the prose but it fell flat for me and as I was reading I think my eyes glazed over, to the point at which, when an important character appeared near the end, I had no memory of him being mentioned in the story at all.

The storyline with the food was interesting and I wish more had been made of that than with her actual job. I know very little about the inside of the advertising industry but it played out like a bad comedy. The way in which Susie left her job at the end was unprofessional and this annoyed me.

Maybe I should stop reading books of this genre, but every so often I pick one up that I really enjoy. Unfortunately this wasn't one of them.

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