dragoneyes451's review against another edition
1.0
Out of the Blue is a story about Faith, a meteorologist for an early morning news show who finds out her husband of 15 years has had an affair. The book follows Faith through the year as she follows the complicated steps of finding herself, divorce, new relationships, and relationships that have changed.
I wish I had more to say about the synopsis of this book. Unfortunately, those two sentences pretty much sum it up. After the first 50 pages, I considered putting the book down. Then I decided, okay, I'll read another 50 and maybe it'll get better. I got to 100 pages and thought "Well.... maybe just a little more." At around 150 pages, I put it down for over a week. Then I picked it up again, and at about 200 pages, or roughly halfway through the book, I decided that I was just going to get it finished so I could find out how it ended.
It's rare that I dislike a book as much as this one. The last time this happened was probably when I read Lord of the Flies roughly 2 years ago. I kept thinking it would get better, though it never did, until I reached the point of just wanting to know the ending.
My main problem with this book was the characters. Faith was SO whiny in the beginning, and throughout the book she was naive to the point of ignorance. She completely accepted everything anyone told her at face value. For example, at one point she realizes her twelve-year-old son has a brand new laptop. When she asks him where it came from, he CLEARLY isn't being straight with her, but when Jos chimes in and says he got it for her son, she just totally accepts that. Then there's Lily who was portrayed as this high class, highfalutin woman, and yet she was supposedly best friends with mid-class Faith. Jos was this oddly demanding man whom everything about him came off as extremely fake. Peter was probably the most "real" of them all, and even he had issues.
The relationships between the characters never felt real. Any time Faith tried to find answers about something from someone, she practically fed them a way to lie to her. The dialogue when she is confronting Peter about the affair is absurd. The majority of the conversations Faith and Jos have during their relationship feel fake and forced. Honestly, the only interactions that felt real at all were the work politics that Sophie had to deal with, and that was just an aside to the overall story.
I'm not even going to discuss the fact that NO SCHOOL WOULD EVER LET A TWELVE YEAR OLD PLAY THE STOCK MARKET FOR THEM. It's not worth my time.
All in all, this book was pretty terrible. It was almost a DNF for me several times. I can't think of anyone I would recommend this to, which is rare.
I wish I had more to say about the synopsis of this book. Unfortunately, those two sentences pretty much sum it up. After the first 50 pages, I considered putting the book down. Then I decided, okay, I'll read another 50 and maybe it'll get better. I got to 100 pages and thought "Well.... maybe just a little more." At around 150 pages, I put it down for over a week. Then I picked it up again, and at about 200 pages, or roughly halfway through the book, I decided that I was just going to get it finished so I could find out how it ended.
It's rare that I dislike a book as much as this one. The last time this happened was probably when I read Lord of the Flies roughly 2 years ago. I kept thinking it would get better, though it never did, until I reached the point of just wanting to know the ending.
My main problem with this book was the characters. Faith was SO whiny in the beginning, and throughout the book she was naive to the point of ignorance. She completely accepted everything anyone told her at face value. For example, at one point she realizes her twelve-year-old son has a brand new laptop. When she asks him where it came from, he CLEARLY isn't being straight with her, but when Jos chimes in and says he got it for her son, she just totally accepts that. Then there's Lily who was portrayed as this high class, highfalutin woman, and yet she was supposedly best friends with mid-class Faith. Jos was this oddly demanding man whom everything about him came off as extremely fake. Peter was probably the most "real" of them all, and even he had issues.
The relationships between the characters never felt real. Any time Faith tried to find answers about something from someone, she practically fed them a way to lie to her. The dialogue when she is confronting Peter about the affair is absurd. The majority of the conversations Faith and Jos have during their relationship feel fake and forced. Honestly, the only interactions that felt real at all were the work politics that Sophie had to deal with, and that was just an aside to the overall story.
I'm not even going to discuss the fact that NO SCHOOL WOULD EVER LET A TWELVE YEAR OLD PLAY THE STOCK MARKET FOR THEM. It's not worth my time.
All in all, this book was pretty terrible. It was almost a DNF for me several times. I can't think of anyone I would recommend this to, which is rare.
kalkie's review against another edition
3.0
Entertaining romantic chick-lit novel about a Breakfast TV weather presenter and her crumbling marriage. The characters in this book are entertaining, and the book is well written.
girlinacardigan's review against another edition
2.0
http://jennsbookblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/out-of-blue-by-isabel-wolff.html
jennrych's review against another edition
2.0
I almost can't decide how I feel about this book. It crawled along at first, but picked up enough steam at the end to keep me reading all day just to find out what happens. It was very much a soap opera as far as the plot goes. And her foreshadowing was painfully obvious through the entire book. I want to give it a thumbs down in terms of writing & predictability, but a thumbs half-way-up for entertainment.
brianajae's review against another edition
3.0
Now, I'm an Isabel Wolff fan but this was just ... not good. I found my self struggling to get through it, I didn't like the characters and I just wanted it all to get over and done with.
There were some twists I didn't see coming, so that was good. Still, I'd stick with this writer's other books.
There were some twists I didn't see coming, so that was good. Still, I'd stick with this writer's other books.
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