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funny and engaging chick lit!, April 14, 2011
This review is from: Like Casablanca (Kindle Edition)
I am a UK amazon customer and have started copying my reviews onto here to help support the indies/less well known authors. Here's what I said on amazon.co.uk:
This was a very enjoyable read. I am a massive fan of this genre and have recently been enjoying reading new authors in this genre on my kindle. I am glad I purchased this- it is very easy to read with great characters who you are rooting for from the beginning. My only complaint is it felt slightly shorter than other chick lit novels I have read on my kindle- but perhaps that is just because I enjoyed it so much that I read it quickly. I would recommend this to fans of this genre.
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A Fun Read For All!, March 29, 2011
This review is from: Like Casablanca (Kindle Edition)
I have a confession: I have never seen the movie Casablanca. Yes, berate me if you must. That being said, the references to the movie were few and easily understood by this movie-challenged reader.
In Like Casablanca, we are taken on a journey of broken hearts, friendship, Internet dating and, finally, love. As with all of Massara's books, the characters sucked me right into their world. Reading this story was like sitting down with an old friend, laughing at her antics and commiserating with her difficulties. While this is classified as 'Chick Lit', women and men alike can easily enjoy this book.
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"Like Casablanca" Is A Tasty Dish!, January 31, 2011
This review is from: Like Casablanca (Kindle Edition)
Cat Ryan, the main character in "Like Casablanca," is on the cusp of forty. So, it's not clear whether this book is Chick-Lit or its older sister, Hen-Lit. What is clear is that it has all the elements of a Chick-Lit romantic comedy. It has a confiding, personal tone, accomplished through compelling first person prose. Cat's flip, yet endearing attitude toward herself draws you into her story. Her feistiness, while a refreshing quality, could also be her undoing.
Having suffered a devastating breakup with Josh, Cat is at an unsettled time in her life, and it is reflected in her business life. She is working part time in an antiques shop for Scotty, her gay best friend, and trying to make extra money writing a blog on the pitfalls of Internet Dating for her former magazine editor. At the same time, she has promised herself to write her dream book on Renaissance art when she gets around to it!
When her path crosses that of Rick Blake, the handsome owner of Rick's Café ,she quickly learns that Scotty's description of the café as being "like Casablanca" was more telling than she could have imagined. Rick is not only mysterious, he is dangerously irresistible to Cat. Unfortunately, fate continually conspires to keep them apart. Will Cat's cheekiness and Rick's dispassionate air work against each other? Are they destined to give up the great love of their lives - like in Casablanca?
Told from the first person, "Like Casablanca" was entertaining and humorous. Sylvia Massara allowed her main character to be real. It was like listening to your closest friend filling you in on all the latest. Cat Ryan wallowed when she felt like it, was a good friend when she needed to be, and struggled to stay above water financially--just like most of us do even if we don't want to admit it. All the while, she never really gave up hope of finding someone special to share her life.
The biggest complaint I had about Massara's writing is that she was so descriptive in describing food dishes that I wound up reading this book to the tune of my stomach growling!
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