So when I first saw The Manny by Holly Peterson I thought it looked too frivolous. A shocking admission, given some of the things I've admitted to reading, I know.
But I finally got it from the library, and got past my prejudice enough to read it.
The result? Mixed.
It's fairly well written, but none of the characters are quite well developed enough that you really care what happens to them. The main character stays with a lousy husband for pages and pages and pages. Why? Clearly, life's too short.
There's a romance, but even that is a fair amount of build up for not much action.
Plus there's an endless in-depth (one of the few things that is) work sub-plot. Please, if that's what I was interested in I would be actually working, not reading a book called "The Manny."
All in all? Not too frivolous for me, maybe just not frivolous enough.
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