Sundays at Tiffany's
by Gabrielle Charbonnet, James Patterson
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Book Reviews of Sundays at Tiffany's
Book Review: Suspend Your disbelief :)
Summary: 4 Stars
I read a few reviews about this book before I read it and now after I read the book, I think if you want to read this book you have to suspend your disbelief and believe that anything is possible. I never read James Patterson before so I don't know if this book is completely different then the norm for him or not but that doesn't matter. I really loved this book. To me, to hold me as reader, I have to like the character or like hating the character. The protagonist has to hold my attention, and that's pretty hard. I didn't really like Jane in the beginning. Her character was someone who to me, was supposed to be easily pitted, which turned me off, but I adored Michael, her imaginary friend. His character was personal journey to me. He was just as clueless as Jane as to why everything was happening, but his character felt to me, more three dimensional... even though he was imaginary and that's the reason why I loved the book. The only reason why I brought it, and yes... it is a little pricey, but no regrets, was the fact that a woman's true love was someone who wasn't real within reality standards. I love books that explore something that's different but the story is still common. Trying to find love... My only gripes is the cover of this book. I thought Jane was supposed to look like the woman on the cover but she's blond in the book, which for some strange reason confused me. Towards the end I thought the author/s could have done better with explaining the climax, but there was a nice twist that I didn't expect which had to give me more appreciation for the book. I think it's a great premise, and I do recommend reading it, but only if you can suspend your disbelief in not believing that falling in loving with someone imaginary is impossible.Book Review: Immensely Enjoyed This Book
Summary: 4 Stars
Despite some of the other reviews on here, I loved this book. The story starts out with Jane being a young, not so attractive little girl who happens to have a mother who is more wrapped up in her own materialistic world, that Jane creates or meets her imaginary friend Michael. Michael cares for Jane very much, talks to her, keeps her company, etc. but of course, is only seen by Jane. The reader soon learns that Michael is more than just "imaginary" but rather a real angel who is assigned to young children, but must leave them once they turn 9 yrs old. And that is what happened for Jane. However, although the children supposedly forget their "guardian angels" who are assigned to them, Jane does not forget Michael. Fast foward 23 years and Michael stumbles across Jane by accident. He has never forgotten her, but assumes she has forgotten him. He follows her around town w/o her knowledge as she goes about her business and her life. The reader begins to see how much Michael has missed Jane. Eventually she catches sight of someone who looks like Michael as she passes a mirror in a hotel. To make a long story short, they hook up again, Michael has not aged, but Jane has. They start to date. Things begin to happen to Michael making him as well as Jane believe that Michael is becoming a mortal vs. an angel. Overall, I loved this story. It was romantic, fantastic in the sense that we know it could never be true, but touching. My only frustration was the authors hinted quite loudly that Jane had a serious medical condition, that was never explained later in the story. The authors built it up in one scene to create anxiety in the reader and to make that part more compelling, and then it was just dropped! Very strange.Book Review: Just a so-so book
Summary: 2 Stars
I must say, I was very disappointed with this book. This is the second James Patterson book that I have read (the first one being 1st to Die). I LOVED the first book of his Woman's Murder Club series and I also bought this book along with Sam's Letters to Jennifer (which I will read next) because I have heard that his love stories are like Nicholas Sparks (which is one of my FAVORITE authors) - well, this book was no where near what Nicholas Sparks can write. This book never really caught my attention, and believe me I was REALLY hoping I would get lost in this book. I am a person that loves to get lost in the fantasy world of "happily ever after" and let my heart go places in these books that I can't even imagine. Well, that didn't happen at all with this book. Actually, I almost didn't finish it but forced myself to continue just to see if it got better, and it did a little. WARNING SPOILERS WILL FOLLOW. The only reason I finished it was because I wanted to see if Jane lived and if they would be together. After I found out her mother was the one to die, and not her, it made the book better, and I must say the near death experience of Michael at the end was a nice touch as well. I just think the book was way too short to really grasp the reader and pull them in to the story. I love the idea of someone fromt he past coming back and it being true love, but it was almost creepy to me. Was Michael in love with her when she was 8? That's just sick. Otherwise, maybe he always felt a connection with her but didn't love her until he saw her again when she was an adult. Either way, it wasn't explained and even though I love to suspend reality in my books, this one was too far gone for even me.Book Review: Just another god out of a machine
Summary: 3 Stars
I had hopes for this story because I like the premise of a girl's imaginary friend returning to her when she's grown up and because of the title's obvious echo of another great, wistful story, Breakfast at Tiffany's. Jane, the girl and woman in question here, doesn't come with a short supply of longing. She is a soul overlooked or beat on emotionally since childhood, yet she has the tolerance of a speed bag. She is clever (a little too much beyond her years as a child) and funny, so I took to her right away. Michael, her imaginary friend, is also likable but is more of a mystery. Again, too much so, I thought, considering that half the book is told from his point of view. Being so ill-defined meant that his abilities could be conveniently sprung upon the reader, just in the nick of time. This I found irritating in a contrived, deus ex machina sort of way.
In fact, after Jane and Michael meet up again for the second time--after they kiss for the first time, really--the story's tension ratchets itself up with nearly audible mechanistic predictability. Now that boy's got girl, he's gotta lose her. And from his own uncharacteristic lack of insight, as it turns out. I didn't believe it. Neither did I believe Jane's mother when the two women resolved their differences. But at that point, sentimentality took over and I just went with it. And that's the kicker; the story is sweet. Cute. Darling, even. It just lacks individuality. It is merely another fairy tale in which magic, rather than the depth of human character, saves the day.
Book Review: Hmmm....
Summary: 3 Stars
Jane Margaux has an imaginary friend named Michael. He has been with her throughout her childhood till the age of nine, keeping her company when she feels lonely and boosting her self-esteem. As with any imaginary friend, he can't be with her forever... but twenty-three years later, who is this man entering her life? And why hasn't she ever forgotten Michael?
SUNDAY'S AT TIFFANY'S is a dramatic departure from the crime novels readers have come to expect from James Patterson. In fact, it's even unique amongst the very few romance novels he has written. SUNDAY'S AT TIFFANY'S has a magical quality, an almost childlike wonder at times that perhaps may not be surprising considering it is cowritten with children's author, Gabrielle Charbonnet.
The premise of an imaginary friend as an actual job occupation is brilliant. Each tidbit in the story about Michael's job and the various aspects of his work is fascinating. In fact, the early years where he worked with Jane are the true highlights of this story as Jane's early years are heart wrenching.
Even now, I haven't really decided how I feel about this one. There were parts that were so magical it was hard not to enjoy them. Moments so emotional they practically brought tears to my eyes. And yet, perhaps because it was so different from other books, I'm still left wondering how or why the ending happened. A tad more explanation at the end could have made this one perfectly stellar.
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