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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780425213964
ISBN number: 042521396X
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: February 05, 2008
Publishing house: Berkley Trade
Release Date: February 26, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 590526
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Sophie isn't crazy, she just wants her guy back. And posing as a psychic to give his new girlfriend a fake reading designed to break them up isn't going overboard, is it? Don't answer that.
Faking psychic powers turns out to be fun, especially after a few lessons from Nick, the cute skeptic, who teaches her all the tricks of the trade. But her readings do a lot more than she could have predicted. Now she must decide whether to accept her rising stardom in a less-than-honest line of work-and whether the best option is trying to rekindle her old flame or finding romance with someone new. And, most importantly, she needs to figure out whether the answers lie in the stars-or in herself.
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I know, I know, I shouldn't complain about brainless chick-lit delivering exactly what it promises. Still, I was a bit let down by this book, and although I was not dragging through the pages, I did finish wondering why in the world I actually read through to the end.
I am pretty sure that the main character would be classified clinically insane in the real world, which kind of alienated me from her. I also know a bit about the inside workings of several of the types of businesses that she mentions, which she gets almost right but then misses the mark on. I'm afraid that the book was so unmemorable that I can't recall exactly what those missed marks were. All in all, if you want some cheap fluff, take this out at the library and waste a few hours of your time on it. If you want substance (or actual romance) seek elsewhere.
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this is one of the funniest books i read. within the very first chapter of the book, i immediately fell in love with the main character, Sophie. i loved the sarcasm and the sense of humour the author portrayed the character.
this book is about a woman named sophie, who wants to win back her ex boyfriend. theres one problem: hes seeing someone else, whom sophie refers to as "melon breasts"..lol. sophie decides the only way to win him back is to be a psychic and advise his new girl friend that they're bad for each other. after her hard trouble of winning back her boyfriend, by pretending shes a psychic, she ends up falling for someone else.
one of my favorite parts in the book was in the beginning when sophie was trying to win back her boyfriend, she kept making him think he was crazy. she would go to his laundry and purposely steal each sock from their pairs. and another part was when she kept stealing his car and putting it somewhere else. i couldnt stop laughing at those parts.
anyone who likes books about love and comedy in it, than this is it. i love this book.
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The author's grasp of written English is tenuous. Grammar, sentence structure, word choice are all sub-par. Her writing technique is comparable to that of a high school freshman:
"I laugh along as if I were familiar with these kind of problems when jet-setting through foreign lands."
What??!
Describing orcas: "their grey dorsal fins oily black"
What is "multisyllablabic?"
The ideas are cute and there is a slight amount of originality here, but the author's lack of facility with the written word continually bring the reader out of the moment.
Having paid 28% of the cover price ($1 less than the current Amazon price!), I still felt ripped off. Perhaps Penguin might consider hiring an editor??
:( better luck subsequent time
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One woman who discovers that she will do anything to win back the man she loves and along the way discovers that she'll stop at nothing to finally achieve true love!
This was a fun story about Sophie Kintock (I wondered if this was a nod to another gifted chick lit writer Sophie Kinsella) who's boyfriend breaks up with her after nearly 6 years and Sophie's not prepared to take it lying down. In fact, she goes as far as to break into his apartment building just to play mind games with him in the hopes of showing him that he can't live without her and will have him running back, but while she's in the apartment's laundry room, he comes in and Sophie learns that he has a new love interest. I thought it was quite fitting that Eileen Cook named her Melanie and described her as "melon-breasted"! Can Sophie compete with this new babe? Well, she intends to and fight dirty she will! Sophie gets into her head that she can pretend to be a psychic and give Melanie a phony reading to scare her off. She bites off more than she can chew when one of her predictions comes true and she becomes a little too well known. While hiding in that laundry room, she also meets Nick - the nerdy but cute psychic skeptic who, while telling her all the reasons why she shouldn't believe in psychic predictions, inadvertently gives her the idea of and the ability to pass for one! It was fun to read just how far Sophie would be willing to go to win her "true love" and watch her come to realize whether or not it's worth it in the end.
The only thing missing was that the author didn't really describe Sophie's physical appearance. Sophie does describe trying to fit into certain clothes and the dreaded after-effects of a really good meal, and I got the impression that she's a tall girl but she didn't mention her hair or eye colour or if she thought she was attractive - those kind of details can really add to the connection that you feel with some characters, I just wondered if I missed something or if that was done on purpose.
Even without those details and the fact that the love that she ultimately winds up with IS predictable, it's a fun book and well written and I'm glad that Cook took the time to entertain us with this cute tale of psychics and those that don't believe. It was funny and campy and a well written story.
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Sophie Kintock has found the man of her dreams. Doug is everything she wants - or at least she thinks he is. When he unceremoniously dumps her while she is folding his laundry, she decides that she will do anything to get him back. She undertakes a series of capers to make Doug think he can't handle life without her, only to find that he has moved on to a new blonde bombshell named Melanie.
In Sophie's most desperate hour, she meets Nick, a member of a society who is out to prove that psychics aren't real - and so the basis of a plan forms. Sophie convinces Nick to teach her how fake being a psychic in order to convince Melanie that Doug isn't the one for her. And so a spiral of hilarity begins - especially when, to Sophie's delight, she finds out that she has a real talent for fake psychic readings. However, things get much more complicated as her popularity as a psychic begins to grow and she has to decide what she really wants and what really is important in life.
Unpredictable by Eileen Cook is a unique and hilarious addition to the chick lit genre. Cook writes her characters well: Sophie is quirky and creative, but her misguided notions sometimes make her seem rather selfish. Though it is clear that she only wants the person whom she considers to be the love of her life back, she doesn't seem to take the time to consider that others are affected by what she says and does. It is unclear whether the character grows in this regard by the end of the novel. Despite this quandary, Unpredictable is utterly enjoyable - funny and witty, with Sophie finding herself in increasingly entertaining predicaments and struggling to escape the situations she gets herself into. The fallibility of the characters gives them depth and makes them believable, yet the reader still gets to see the happy fairy-tale ending that is critical to novels of this genre.
One question that is addressed but goes unanswered by the book is the question of whether it is immoral to give fake psychic readings to people. On one hand, it is a downright lie to tell people that you know something of their future when, in reality, you have no more idea of what's going to happen than they do. On the other hand, for some it gives some comfort and something to look forward to. While Sophie does wrestle with this issue, she seems to be more concerned that her friends disapprove of her psychic persona than the fact that she is misleading people to believe she knows something of their future. In the end, the moral dilemma is never fully resolved.
As a fan of chick lit, I found Unpredictable completely refreshing and fun. It brings together a wonderful story of love with the very unique perspective of the world of psychics. It is a highly enjoyable, laugh-out-loud novel that I would recommend to anyone, young or old, male or female - and I don't have to be psychic to predict that they would enjoy it!
Originally published at Curled Up With a Good Book
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