Angels : A Novel | Marian Keyes | A great Keyes novel...as usual!

Angels : A Novel | Marian Keyes | ok but not my favorite

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Angels : A Novel

	Angels : A Novel Marian Keyes, 2004 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 122 reviews view larger image
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Maggie has always been the white sheep of the Walsh family. Unlike her comically dysfunctional sisters, Rachel (heroine of Rachel's Holiday) and Claire (heroine of Watermelon), she married a decent man who adored her and found herself a solid career. Where Rachel was reckless and Claire dramatic, Maggie settled early for safety. Or so she believed -- until she discovers that her husband is having an affair and her boss is going to fire her. Suddenly, her perfectly organized life has become a perfect mess.

Devastated, she decides the only thing to do is to run for the shelter of her best friend, Emily, who lives in Los Angeles. There, with the help of sunshine and long days at the beach, she will lick her wounds and decide where life will take her next.

But from the moment she lands in the City of Angels, things are not quite what she expected. Overnight, she's mixing with movie stars, even pitching film scripts to studios. Most unexpectedly of all, she finds that just because her marriage is over, it doesn't mean her life is. In the end neither the City of Angels nor Maggie Walsh will ever be the same again.

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A great Keyes novel...as usual!

I read Angels some time ago, and I loved how Marian Keyes brought me into a world that came to life before my reading eyes.
Maggie has just separated from her husband and moved out to LA in search of...herself, perhaps? Along the way she meets up with an old boyfriend, a new man that isn't really interested in her as much as her roommate and contemplates being a lesbian. In the end though, Maggie finds things out about herself and her husband that surprise everyone.
I love Marian Keyes' wit and charm. I love how she can take a sad, sob situation and implant humor into it at just the right moment. I've yet to be disappointed with a Keyes novel.
If you're looking for some great British Chick Lit, look not further than Marian Keyes. Her novels are filled with laugh out loud, wipe your eyes moments that are absolutely priceless.

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ok but not my favorite

This is my very first Marian Keyes novel. I found myself struggling to finish the book in the beginning maybe because it was hard to relate to the character and the way the author was trying to introduce the "supporting" characters slowed down the phase of the story. I normally would go through a book in 2 or 3 days bt this had me going for almost 2 weeks. Also I had decided to stop reading it twice 'cause I thought I'd never find anything interesting in it at all. But I'm glad I decided to stick to it. I did find some interesting parts towards the end of the story. I liked the ending too. There is nothing like a good ending. I think it made up for the bad parts of the story. It's what salvaged the entire thing. Maybe I'll give Marian Keyes another chance.

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Good Girl Goes Bad...just a Little!

This was the third novel in the Walsh sister's series - it's time to get to know Maggie a little better.

The story starts out when Maggie discovers that her husband has been unfaithful and decides to leave their home in Ireland and go for an extended visit to her good friend in California. She gets reacquainted with the US, as her and her husband once lived in Chicago when they were first married - and now she gets to see what it's like in Los Angeles, aka movie-land.

This was a good book and I enjoyed the story, but not as much as Watermelon and Rachel's Holiday. There was a lot of time spent chronicling the happenings of secondary characters and I didn't have that much interest in them. Marian Keyes is a talented story teller and she's not stingy with the details - she gives it ALL to you and readers can decide for themselves what they come away with. It was because of that detail, it took me longer to finish this book than the others; part of my lackluster response comes from the fact that Maggie is basically a good-girl, and has pretty much followed the straight and narrow - marrying her high school boyfriend, - she's not as wild and crazy as the sisters detailed in other novels and so there were no huge bells and whistles going off...at first!

Then the story gets going and Maggie is exposed to the world of Hollywood. It was fun to see how L.A. affects Maggie. What did make this book noteworthy was the way that Keyes showed the slow progression as Maggie comes to realize what real love is, but first she has to figure out what it IS NOT! At one point during her visit, her parents & two sisters (Helen & Anne) come to visit and it was this part of the story that I enjoyed most, reading about the antics they inevitably get into & this time in America! Maggie gets to see the world of movie production from the inside and meets many wild people with their own stories to tell and her involvement with them is when she goes a little bit wild! You will definitely want to read Angels if you are a fan of the series and even though I didn't love this installment, Keyes is still one of my favorite authors and I will certainly keep reading!

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Quickie Summer Read

There is not much that this author writes that I'd consider in the least boring but half way through I lost focus on this book so I found myself skipping around. I did the awful thing of reading the end of the book and actually found that I liked the end better than any other bit.

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