by Jen Lancaster
If You Were Here follows Amish-zombie-teen- romance author Mia and her husband Mac (and their pets) through the alternately frustrating, exciting, terrifying-but always funny-process of buying and renovating their first home in the Chicago suburbs that John hughes's movies made famous. Along their h...
This book is hilarious and if you love HGTV or John Hughes movies, then it is even more of a delight.
I was very excited to hear Jen was writing a fiction book (yay)! I love her style and i was happy to find that she's still funny in fiction. Her use of footnotes is hilarious and I'm glad she used them in this novel.As far as the actual plot - I can relate to the frustration of searching for the p...
Nothing spectacular here. Funny read but too over the top for my tastes. Nice little homage to John Hughes. I prefer the author's memoir writing.
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Cute book, but not as funny as her previous books. This was her first attempt at fiction and it really just felt like another memoir to me, which isn't a bad thing! And as much as I adore Stephenie Meyer and the Twilight Saga, I laughed my ass off when Lancaster made fun of her. Very entertaining!
The story is light-hearted and entertaining. It took a little while for me to get into the characters; since it's written in the same style as Jen's other books, I had to keep reminding myself this was fiction and not another memoir. But by time Mia and Mac sign the papers to move into their first h...
Unfortunately I'm going to have to mark this one "DNF" for now. Haven't been able to get past the first 50 pages. I've heard much about how funny Jen Lancaster is, so I will try this one again when I am in the mood for a book like this.
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