The Summer Job
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Beiträge
Angenehm leichte Lektüre, egal zu welcher Jahreszeit
*Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the advanced copy for review* I truly liked this one. It started of a bit slow, but soon picked up and I couldn't put it down. Elizabeth "Birdy" Finch is pretty much a disaster in life and in love. She feels as if there's nothing better for her than the cards she's been dealt. Her best friend Heather is an accomplished sommelier and gets invited to loads of wine events. She lets Birdy take her place at a wine awards night and Birdy ends up running into Heather's new boss who thinks that Birdy is Heather. She plays it off cooly. Heather doesn't want to take the job so she asks Birdy to call them for her and get her out of it, but Birdy has other plans. She decides that since Heather's new boss already thinks she's Heather she will just take her place at the new job. How hard is it to be a sommelier anyway? Turns out, it's pretty hard and Birdy has to really buckle down and get her act together or ruin her and Heather's reputations. It can't last forever though. Birdy truly grows as a character through the book. She is very unreliable in the beginning and not very likeable. She definitely grows on you and grows up also. She makes mistakes, but watching her find her way through them makes this a fun read.
A pleasant yet stressful distraction for an afternoon, though maybe not for someone who gets overly anxious with characters and has a strong sense of ethics/integrity. Probably would have been three, but at least twice I was totally distracted by what I assume were editing errors: the first mention of Irene comes out of nowhere and had me scouring the previous pages (I know we flip through time here, but it was still confusing); when James and Birdy go fishing, there is a line toward the end about her having blood on her temple, but again I had no idea where that came from. If I am wrong about either of these and just read past them, I would be glad to know.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Angenehm leichte Lektüre, egal zu welcher Jahreszeit
*Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the advanced copy for review* I truly liked this one. It started of a bit slow, but soon picked up and I couldn't put it down. Elizabeth "Birdy" Finch is pretty much a disaster in life and in love. She feels as if there's nothing better for her than the cards she's been dealt. Her best friend Heather is an accomplished sommelier and gets invited to loads of wine events. She lets Birdy take her place at a wine awards night and Birdy ends up running into Heather's new boss who thinks that Birdy is Heather. She plays it off cooly. Heather doesn't want to take the job so she asks Birdy to call them for her and get her out of it, but Birdy has other plans. She decides that since Heather's new boss already thinks she's Heather she will just take her place at the new job. How hard is it to be a sommelier anyway? Turns out, it's pretty hard and Birdy has to really buckle down and get her act together or ruin her and Heather's reputations. It can't last forever though. Birdy truly grows as a character through the book. She is very unreliable in the beginning and not very likeable. She definitely grows on you and grows up also. She makes mistakes, but watching her find her way through them makes this a fun read.
A pleasant yet stressful distraction for an afternoon, though maybe not for someone who gets overly anxious with characters and has a strong sense of ethics/integrity. Probably would have been three, but at least twice I was totally distracted by what I assume were editing errors: the first mention of Irene comes out of nowhere and had me scouring the previous pages (I know we flip through time here, but it was still confusing); when James and Birdy go fishing, there is a line toward the end about her having blood on her temple, but again I had no idea where that came from. If I am wrong about either of these and just read past them, I would be glad to know.