Sort of droll novel about two sisters, Iris and Josephine. Iris is bored with her life, despite wanting for nothing, and decides to write a novel about 12th-century life to spice things up and get some cache. Problem is she knows nothing about 12th-century life and doesn't actually have the gumption to write it, so she enlists Josephine, whose husband recently left her and her two daughters and who is struggling financially, to write it for her because Jo is a scholar of 12th-century life. Iris gets the glory, Josephine gets the royalties. Complications arise, naturally. The book also details the lives of the characters around Jo and Iris. No one's relationship is particularly happy, which may seem strange for a novel, but it was pretty realistic. Josephine's teenage daughter Hortense is one of the most awful characters in the book. Thank goodness she redeemed herself at the very end. I know teenagers tend to be snots, but she was just horrendous and I despised her passionately.There are a couple of sequels. Unsure if I'll read them. But this was a pretty amusing light book. This is one of those novels that you can't put down yet in the same moment is not really all that great. Yes, it was a page turner. The characters were black and white, they lacked depth, they lacked reality but they still made me want to see where it headed...It headed to a completely lack luster ending. I was waiting for the ending to justify the anorexic plot line only to be holy disappointed and left scratching my head in wonder. It was as if the deadline to turn in the final draft forced her to abruptly crash the ending. YET, it was a page turner.
What do You think about Žute Oči Krokodila (2012)?
The book is about how people relate to the changes going on in their lives. Light and entertaining.
—saba
The mother of all beach books... a no brainer delight.
—donna
