The Other Side Of The Story - Marian Keyes

So winter is fast approaching, the nights are drawing in and lets face it a bit of chick lit wouldn't go amiss. If you have read Marian Keyes fiction before, then the other side of the story will not let you down. It is typically light hearted, fun and perfect for the cold winter months. Based around three main characters JoJo, Gemma and Lily, with each having their own first hand narrative (although this can make the book seem somewhat disjointed at times). So here's a bit about the 3 main girls. Gemma - Is a party planner in Ireland and she has a nice flat, job , car etc. etc. but all goes wrong when her Father leaves her Mother for a ...  Read the complete review

Chick Lit is not everyone's cup of tea and within the genre itself there are some good and bad books. Marian Keyes, in my opinion, is one of the better writers in this genre - her characters are realistic, flawed, but not unlikeable. They are never the glossy haired, beautiful, intelligent, perfect specimens you might find in some more formulaic novels. They are regular women (yes, her lead characters are always female) who are not perfect looking, or amazingly intelligent, they are like real girls and almost like someone you would know. Her books are always wittily written and cover a broad spectrum of events in people's lives such as drug addiction, marriage break ups, ...  Read the complete review

Marian Keyes is one of the better authors when it comes to chick lit and I have to say I love her books. This one is no different and i finished the book in less than a day. ~~ The Plot ~~ Gemma Hogan is living in Dublin when her boyfriend, Anton, heads off to London. Sending her best friend Lily to keep an eye on him, Gemma's heartbroken to find out that they've fallen for each other. Gemma also suffers when her dad walks out on her mum and Gemma is called to play mum to her potty mum that can't quite get her head around it. Looking for some sanity and somewhere to rant, Gemma sends funny little snippets to her friend in Seattle who finds them so ...  Read the complete review

With eight other bestsellers under her belt, Marian Keyes has unsurprisingly done it again with her newest novel 'The Other Side Of The Story'. Having read only 'Angels' by Marian, I was unsure of what to expect as, although Angels was good, it wasn't outstanding and when I bought this I was looking forward to seeing if there was more to Marian than what I'd seen so far. *** Plot *** Gemma, JoJo and Lily are all successful women who are linked to each other in different ways. Jojo the high flying literary agent is constantly watching out for promotion and trying to keep her complicated love life with her married boss a ...  Read the complete review

I first got into Marian Keyes when one of her books came free with a magazine. I went into it expecting it to be cliched chick-lit, with lots of vomit inducing mushiness, so was very impressed when it turned out to be a book about a dark topic, but with lots of humour and characters that you could at least partially relate to, unlike lots of other similar books, where all the female characters are strong, independant characters, beautiful with lots of money and glamour in their life. The other side of the story is the most recent book by Keyes which I have read (i'm a bit behind with them if I'm honest). It took me a while to get into it as it jumps between 3 ...  Read the complete review