What do You think about Simply Divine (2000)?
Hohum.I have enjoyed the books by Wendy Holden that I have read previously; I quite liked the Wives of Bath and Gallery Girl.The characters in Simply Divine are unbelievably shallow and honestly utterly stupid, and as you're inside their heads, you're asked as a reader to be unbelievably shallow and stupid as well. Oh, and throw feminism out the window before you pick this number up.I struggled to finish what should have been an easy, speedy read enjoyed as a guilty pleasure. It was none of those things.
—Shaelah
I've been wracking my brain trying to remember who or what convinced me to add this book about a young single London magazine editor to my queue, because bleh, it was not very good. To be fair, it was very witty (although HEAVY on the puns) but it was also shallow and sordid. I am a fan of hapless-yet-spunky-girl-in-hilarious-situations stories, but this lacked the heart and likeable heroines of other British chick lit like Bridget Jones's Diary or Confessions of a Shopaholic. And I know this genre is not known for utter realism, but the interpersonal relationships and ridiculous plot points and punny names stretched my suspension of disbelief TOO FAR.
—Julia
This was my first and last chick lit book I've bought and read. It was enjoyable but at the end of the book, I realized that all chick lit will essentially be the trope boy meets girl, fair enough but reading chick lit would mean reading variations of this story over and over again, and typically the guy is so hot and meets & falls for bumbling less than perfect under appreciated girl, which in my opinion devalues a girl and doesn't add up in the love story formula.Too superficial & not deep human relationship enough for me, although the writing was very enjoyable as was the story.
—Dian Jamil
