How has everyone been?? I am sorry for my absence but I am back and ready to go!
Would you believe me if I told you that this book sounds *very* familiar to me and that I have read it before...?
Well, this book sounded very familiar to me and I felt like I've read it before.
You guys also know that I've never given a novel a crappy review before but I suppose there's a first time for everything!
The Matchmakers of Minnow Bay by Kelly Harms is going to be my first review on a book that I did not like.
The reader meets Lily Stewart, an artist who gets evicted from her apartment after missing one rent payment. While Lily is cleaning out her apartment, we see that Lily finds annulment paperwork from her Las Vegas marriage. Annulment papers from TEN YEARS AGO! TEN (10) count 'em, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10, years ago!! HOW CRAZY!
After meeting with her best friend-divorce attorney, Renee, Lily decides that she's going to find Ben Hutchinson and tell him all about her delay in the paperwork and how it was all a big misunderstanding!! (I'm still confused as to how you could even consider Renee to be a best friend when for most of the book, she's been a horrible person).
Ugh.
Then as the book continues we see the interactions between her and Ben; how the town of Minnow Bay tries to keep her and Ben together. Blah blah blah.
My issues with this book reside with Lily herself.
As a character, she is so flat! She does the same things over and over again and there is no change. (What's that saying? Doing the same things over and over again when the outcome is the same is the definition of insanity??) She's too stubborn to believe that anything new could be of benefit to her.
I don't understand how helping Simone played any part of the development of Lily's character. Ben seemed like a big jerk and then he turned and became this tolerable person on a dime. He was mean and nasty to Lily YET everyone knew that they were perfect for each other. (...What?) I feel like there wasn't enough dialouge between the two of them, we didn't learn a lot about Ben.
No one deserves to be treated like a jerk. Even if it's a character in a book.
No one deserves to be treated like a jerk. Even if it's a character in a book.
The title "The Matchmakers of Minnow Bay" is confusing because there were no matchmakers. Unless Colleen and Jenny were the matchmakers. But I don't feel like that can be said when all they did was make a flat tire, kept Lily from getting a new tire and throwing a birthday party for Ben's mom, Carla.
I mean... Really?
The only part of the book I found to be funny was when Lily attacked Renee with the bristles on the broom because there was a robber in her apartment.
(I probably laughed waaaaay too hard at that.)
I am sad to say that I can only give this book 1 coffee bean out of 5...
I was able to snag a copy of this book on sale for $9.00 and I think that's a fair price. I wouldn't go out of my way to read this book....
~ Jillian
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