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Thirty-Nothing

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I really liked Ralph's Party and ordered a bunch of Lisa Jewell's books and was disappointed. Finally I found another one that was well worth reading. I really enjoyed reading Thirty Nothing. It's basically the story of a girl and a boy who have been best friends since they were young, and how long it took them to realize they were in love. You won't believe what they make each other and themselves go through in order to realize this.

After reading Ralph's Party I came across this book. It's a love funny story between childhood friends.Both characters realize they are meant for each other at different stages of their lives. The descriptions and the things that the characters go through are very funny. After I finished reading, it left me with a good feeling. I recommend this book for those who are looking for something fun, light and with love in it.

This book got really poor reviews in the Uk and I can see why. The characters are so over the top and agitating that the reader actually grows to hate them all. The story is OK but the details are so over the top that you just roll your eyes when you're reading it. It's a bad made for TV movie with bad actors and a bad director.

The publisher obviously didn't edit very well because there are words used that are completely inappriate as if a child used a thesaurus and went with the first word that came up regardless of its context use in a sentence. There are some spelling errors and overall this book just wan't up to scratch.

I picked it up through Book Crossers and released it into the wild hoping someone would it enjoy it more than I would. It's not appropriate for anyone over 30 and not living in a messed up life in London. If you're an adult with a real life, give this one a miss. The only saving grace to this book is that it is written with a good flow and the ending does not disappoint as it can in many other books in the 'women's fiction' category.

THIRTY NOTHING by Lisa Jewell
March 9, 2005

THIRTY NOTHING was a fun chick lit book whose plot reminded me of ROSIE DUNNE by Cecelia Ahern, which I had just read last month, but THIRTY NOTHING is so much better. THIRTY NOTHING is about two friends, Dig and Nadine, who spend the last 10 years dating other people, when in fact it's really each other that they want. Neither can admit to this, because they both think the other doesn't care about each other in THAT way. It's a series of miscommunications that keeps them apart.

But, what could be better for two best friends who are attracted to each other to become romantically involved?

Dig and Nadine are both brand new thirty-year-olds, and both comment on how neither has had a real committed relationship. That's when Dig's old love, Delilah, shows up after being out of his life for about ten years, and Nadine does something rash by contacting her old boyfriend Phil, who had left her mysteriously one day without any explanations. There are a lot of misunderstandings that break apart Dig and Nadine's friendship at one point or another, a friendship that had lasted since childhood, but it takes the reappearance of both Delilah and Phil to help make both Dig and Nadine realize who they really love.

The Ratmammy highly recommends THIRTY NOTHING as one of the best chick lit books ever written. It's fun, yet works on more than one level. It's the story of true friendship and true love.