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“This book is chick lit with a feel similar to Sex and the City. The main character is selfish, vain, and shallow, obsessed with designer clothes and accessories and finding the perfect husband who will make her look good and give her everything she wants. She's obnoxious, with no redeeming qualities. This is meant to be humorous - and it is - but you do get tired of her after a while.
Then, after a friend tells her exactly what he thinks of her, she suddenly changes into a completely different person - a good person. Hardly a though of fashion crosses her mind. The sudden reversal is unrealistic and fragments the book. It would have been better if she had had some characteristics of both personality types all along.
But it is a fun book, and the scenes of London are especially well-done. The author clearly knows the city well, and describes it vividly. For example, in one funny scene, the naive main character takes the Tube (subway) for the first time and asks her friend, "How come it doesn't say 'Mind the gap?' ", referring to the famous recorded message that plays over and over at Tube stops where there is a significant space or level change between the platform and the train.
Something Blue is by no means great literature, but it is a comic and entertaining light read.”