Famous Kate Langdon 9781519730053 Books
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Sometimes fame is the last thing a girl needs… Samantha Steel is blissfully happy. About to be made a partner in a leading advertising agency, she has no messy emotional ties, plenty of money, good parties –and designer dresses and décor to die for. Perfection. Until a one-night stand goes horribly pear-shaped when she accidentally bonks someone famous. The bonking wasn’t accidental ¬– it was the guy being about as famous as it gets that was her big mistake. Suddenly she’s a notorious scarlet woman and life is paparazzi hell. But when Sam disappears into the depths of the deepest darkest countryside, miles from the nearest latte, her life takes some very unexpected turns… With her characteristic quirky style, Kate Langdon captures the twisted humor of the perils of single life with wit, panache and her tongue firmly in her cheek.
Famous Kate Langdon 9781519730053 Books
I had to suspend all belief to enjoy this book. It's chick lit, a genre I enjoy when it's well-written. The main character is a jet-setter with a fancy apartment, car & job, living high on the hog but very shallow. Character development is slim. She has 2 best friends, but I couldn't determine a difference between them, except one's decided to do in vitro. That doesn't fit in the story except as an excuse for her to shout in a phone while in a restaurant. Her parents & sister were backdrop, there wasn't much to their characters, either. The main character is portrayed well. She has a one night stand with a famous, married, football player (who also doesn't have much personality) & it becomes a media frenzy when he's caught leaving her apartment at daybreak. She didn't know he was married--this could be a lesson that you don't invite strange men into your bed right after you meet them. She is chased & stalked by the press & finally decides to leave town & hide out in a remote location, away from the negativity that's invaded her life. I found that to be a little ludicrous. Maybe because I'm American & something like this wouldn't warrant that kind of press coverage for weeks/months on end. She's furious with the football player, he didn't tell her he was married & his wife was pregnant with his 3rd child. If she didn't care about a one-night stand, why would she care about what anyone thought of her? She goes incognito & dies her hair & hides out in a wreck of a cabin. This is totally unbelievable. She doesn't have any life skills but learns how to light a fire, patch a roof, cook & chase varmints out of the house?? Don't think too much about the implausibility & there could be humor. The part I really disliked was that the football player tracks her down & wants to have a relationship with her (why? he doesn't know anything more about her than sleeping with him). What is really ludicrous is that she then sleeps with him again after railing on & on about how much she detests him. I thought that was plain ridiculous. Also, small town people aren't stupid, they read the paper, too. I didn't like the portrayal that country people are naive & totally trusting but just like anywhere else, everyone wouldn't welcome her with open arms. I felt too much was manufactured in an attempt to make this funny. For example, the cops show up & she has a box of sex toys, a joke from her friends, in the open. They knock it over & one officer is horribly embarrassed. Why is that even included? Why is the part about her friends running over an animal included? It isn't even revealed what the animal is. How does that tie in? I like how the story ends, not how the book ends, but the STORY ends. It needed to be fleshed out & explained how it came about. There are too many side stories that don't advance the storyline. They're obviously there in an attempt to provide humor. I would have liked to see the characters drawn out & not presented so one-dimensional. And would someone tell these authors that using a phrase like, "the baker said to Susie and I..." is incorrect. It's one of my pet peeves & I can't understand why it's so prevalent in Kindle books. Are they not edited because they're free Kindle? There's some F-bombs & other language in this book. Another constant in Ms. Langdon's books, the characters drink all the time. I find it tiresome, especially when the dialogue is presented as a drunk would talk.Product details
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Famous Kate Langdon 9781519730053 Books Reviews
I need to remember that when I see something called "Chick lit" that I probably won't like it. While Famous definitely has some funny moments, and it was decently well written from a grammar, structure, and even character development perspective, I found it really difficult to wade through. If you like stories about shallow women doing little more than working, shopping, clubbing/dating, and going to restaurants, then you'll like this book. If you want likeable characters that do interesting things, or are looking for a romance novel, then avoid this like the plague. I was 30% through the book before it got to the "point" (i.e., what made her famous), I'm currently 51% through and ready for it to wrap up and be done.
Also note that the book is written by an New Zealand author and set in New Zealand, so if its a turn off for any Americans to puzzle through local slang and other -isms, keep that in mind when considering reading this book.
(Potential spoiler)
Has any reader been surprised by the ending?
This thoroughly entertaining and fun, if unlikely, story, tells of Samantha Jane's escape from stalking paparazzi and the changes that escape has on her life. Sam and her friends Mandy and Lizzie are fun loving single women with expensive tastes and lifestyles, though I finished the book without really being able to tell Mandy and Lizzie apart. An encounter with a soccer (football) player of some fame, though not occurring until a third or more through the story, sets up over six weeks of intense paparazzi coverage, and that's where I started to lose it. The accounts of the coverage seem to me way overblown for what is obviously (after all, they're following her) a one-night stand. The idea of escaping to a small town, just a few hours away, and expecting anonymity after national news coverage is similarly naive, and the characterization of the small-town folk is stereotypical.
So, while the premise is somewhat less than credible, and the main characters somewhat shallow, the story is an enjoyable way to spend a few hours in reading
As stated by others, this is chicklit and quite well done. It's also British and I like that. I'm a sometimes fan of chicklit but this one didn't exactly get it right in my opinion. Our h is a typical city girl living the life, enjoyed a good job in advertising. She has two close friends that she hangs out with and has a crazy family. One night she goes out and has a one night stand but she doesn't know that the guy is a married, famous football star. From then on she is hounded by paparazzi because the said star's wife is pregnant with their 3rd child. To escape the chaos of her life, the h moves to the country temporarily. This is the story of her adventures.
+++ Minor Spoilers+++
I must say that I found the h's change from sort of trashy, city girl to a more real person, hard to swallow. I also didn't enjoy all the tacky elements of the story. I suppose the author was going for quirky and she didn't always pull it off. I didn't love the h and that's always a problem for me.
It's important to understand that the romance to this story isn't the main event at all and we hardly come to know the 'H'. Anyway if you are into British chicklit then I'm sure you'll enjoy this book.
Because I read this on my , I gauged that I was 26% of the way through the book before the story as advertised on the synopsis started. Everything up to that point was the author trying to be funny and giving us absolutely no information we needed for later in the story. The main character was a sarcastic twit and I continued to read to see if she'd see the light. She apparently did, but it was between the last chapter and the epilogue, where she had apparently decided what steps she was going to take with her life. We didn't see the love story, didn't see the change of heart, didn't see any character growth. The epilogue came out of nowhere, as if the author got tired of writing the book and just tied up loose ends.
I had to suspend all belief to enjoy this book. It's chick lit, a genre I enjoy when it's well-written. The main character is a jet-setter with a fancy apartment, car & job, living high on the hog but very shallow. Character development is slim. She has 2 best friends, but I couldn't determine a difference between them, except one's decided to do in vitro. That doesn't fit in the story except as an excuse for her to shout in a phone while in a restaurant. Her parents & sister were backdrop, there wasn't much to their characters, either. The main character is portrayed well. She has a one night stand with a famous, married, football player (who also doesn't have much personality) & it becomes a media frenzy when he's caught leaving her apartment at daybreak. She didn't know he was married--this could be a lesson that you don't invite strange men into your bed right after you meet them. She is chased & stalked by the press & finally decides to leave town & hide out in a remote location, away from the negativity that's invaded her life. I found that to be a little ludicrous. Maybe because I'm American & something like this wouldn't warrant that kind of press coverage for weeks/months on end. She's furious with the football player, he didn't tell her he was married & his wife was pregnant with his 3rd child. If she didn't care about a one-night stand, why would she care about what anyone thought of her? She goes incognito & dies her hair & hides out in a wreck of a cabin. This is totally unbelievable. She doesn't have any life skills but learns how to light a fire, patch a roof, cook & chase varmints out of the house?? Don't think too much about the implausibility & there could be humor. The part I really disliked was that the football player tracks her down & wants to have a relationship with her (why? he doesn't know anything more about her than sleeping with him). What is really ludicrous is that she then sleeps with him again after railing on & on about how much she detests him. I thought that was plain ridiculous. Also, small town people aren't stupid, they read the paper, too. I didn't like the portrayal that country people are naive & totally trusting but just like anywhere else, everyone wouldn't welcome her with open arms. I felt too much was manufactured in an attempt to make this funny. For example, the cops show up & she has a box of sex toys, a joke from her friends, in the open. They knock it over & one officer is horribly embarrassed. Why is that even included? Why is the part about her friends running over an animal included? It isn't even revealed what the animal is. How does that tie in? I like how the story ends, not how the book ends, but the STORY ends. It needed to be fleshed out & explained how it came about. There are too many side stories that don't advance the storyline. They're obviously there in an attempt to provide humor. I would have liked to see the characters drawn out & not presented so one-dimensional. And would someone tell these authors that using a phrase like, "the baker said to Susie and I..." is incorrect. It's one of my pet peeves & I can't understand why it's so prevalent in books. Are they not edited because they're free ? There's some F-bombs & other language in this book. Another constant in Ms. Langdon's books, the characters drink all the time. I find it tiresome, especially when the dialogue is presented as a drunk would talk.
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