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Tuesday's Child

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Tuesday's Child is a quite enjoyable chick-lit book, but after the promising beginning, the very predictable end leaves you

disappointed.

The plot falls within the nothing-new-under-the-sun category. Tomboyish girl doesn't know she's in love with her best and flatmate the kind and handsome Oliver. Oliver thinks she doen't care for him and dates other, more feminine females, the last of whom proposes him successfully. Lucy has to move out and find a new job. In her new job - after some considerable, but for the reader, not too convincing change of life-, hair and other styles - her rich, gorgeous (or so it seems) boss tries to hit on her. Lucy - oh blessed, blonde naivity! - doesn't notice how he tries to change every single thing in her and that he is just too good to be true...

Somehow everybody and everything is a bit too-too to make you believe it. Victoria, Oliver's fiancée, is too vicious and snooty, Oliver is too unsuspecting, Todd is too slimy and easy to look through for everbody but Lucy and co. And Lucy is too tomboyish, but than with a snap she changes and just in an afternoon she finds out how to dress and apply make up. Not credible at all. Somehow the story, as are its characters, is lame.

This was a fun and lively book. You are reading about this girl, Lucy who is tomboyish and couldn't care less about feminism. And suddenly she has to become girly and feminine. Finding it hard to adjust but catching her boss' attention, she finds herself living a life of luxury. She doesn't realise that she doesn't love her boss, she loves her bestfriend, Ollie. After a whirlwind of a relationship with her new boss, Lucy has had enough and goes back to her parents. She now has no job, has gotten her boss in jail and is single, lonely and yearning for Ollie. After speaking with her sister's fiance, they decide on trying to create a business. It takes off and Lucy tries to forget Ollie. When he and his future wife visit, Lucy spills all the secrets to Ollie and well... you just have to read the book to find out! It's a light, very enjoyable read and definitely something that it hard to put down. Try it!