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raye_loves_reading's review against another edition
3.0
All the different covers for this book have meant that I now have two different versions, AND I've borrowed it from the library. I did finally get around to reading it (at long last). Not Mansell's best, but better by about 1000% than "Solo" which I still maintain contains the least likeable characters I have ever read in a book by this author.
laubou's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
j_elphaba's review against another edition
3.0
Eu sou uma grande fã de Jill Mansell. Sou fã dos seus romances repletos de emoções, sorrisos e lágrimas, que nascem de paixões mirabolantes que envolvem muitas peripécias através de personagens que são, muitas vezes, caricaturas familiares ao leitor. Beijo, no entanto, é um livro diferente dos restantes que já li e de que fiz opinião aqui no blogue. Beijo é um livro com maior seriedade, um livro em que as personagens, entre os dramas e a alegria habitual, nos revelam um lado menos positivo do ser humano e, talvez por isso, creio, um livro estranho ao público habitual de Jill Mansell.
Um dos pontos fortes desta autora, talvez até o seu maior atributo, reside nas caracterizações peculiares que faz das suas personagens que, do extravagante ao comum, têm semelhanças com a realidade, regra geral para o bem, e aqui também para o mal. Assim, diversificando o seu enredo, estamos uma vez mais perante um elenco extenso, quase absurdamente extenso, em que qualidades e defeitos vão sendo espelhados durante o desenvolvimento e, em particular, através das singulares personagens principais Izzy, Kat e Gina, todas elas interessantes e repudiantes, todas elas muito diferentes entre si.
Opinião completa em: http://historiasdeelphaba.blogspot.pt/2013/06/beijo-jill-mansell-opiniao.html
Um dos pontos fortes desta autora, talvez até o seu maior atributo, reside nas caracterizações peculiares que faz das suas personagens que, do extravagante ao comum, têm semelhanças com a realidade, regra geral para o bem, e aqui também para o mal. Assim, diversificando o seu enredo, estamos uma vez mais perante um elenco extenso, quase absurdamente extenso, em que qualidades e defeitos vão sendo espelhados durante o desenvolvimento e, em particular, através das singulares personagens principais Izzy, Kat e Gina, todas elas interessantes e repudiantes, todas elas muito diferentes entre si.
Opinião completa em: http://historiasdeelphaba.blogspot.pt/2013/06/beijo-jill-mansell-opiniao.html
mindfullibrarian's review
3.0
2.5 ⭐️ WTH, Sourcebooks?!? re-releasing a book originally published in 2000 and pretending it’s new?? It definitely isn’t one of my favorite Mansell stories.
melissa_keen's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I love this book, it's so lighthearted and easy to read. A perfect summer holiday novel.
megs2kool's review
3.0
Jill Mansell's books are always a cute read, but definitely one you can put down and forget about for a week before coming back to it. This one dragged on quite a lot- there was so much back and forth between characters and potential love interests that I wanted to shake a couple of them. Like I said, cute but not memorable. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.
betsw's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
Long, slow, and followed a bunch of characters I barely cared about as they made dumb decisions. I usually love long books that follow several different characters as their lives become intertwined, this book just didn't do it for me. This was my first Jill Mansell book, and apparently it's an outlier, so I'll have to try some others. My biggest problem was the "romance" between an adult man and a teenager still in high school...which is treated like just one of the many relationships in the book instead of as a major problem. As if that isn't bad enough, when they get found out, the teen's mom and man's wife get mad at HER for being a "slut" instead of him for preying on a teenager?? A large part of the book is spent with the mom not speaking to her daughter and wishing to reconnect, but never once thinking that maybe she should apologize to her daughter. REALLY annoyed me and ruined anything else I might have liked about those characters.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship
blancwene's review against another edition
1.0
Back when Gossip Girl was airing, my friend and I would watch it and play Relationship Bingo. Each season, we'd guess who'd hook up this time around, and then if it happened...well, you can guess the rest.
This entire book felt like Relationship Bingo. They swapped partners so often that it felt dizzying. This is real early, 90's vintage Mansell, and I just didn't find it anywhere as enjoyable as some of her later novels.
This entire book felt like Relationship Bingo. They swapped partners so often that it felt dizzying. This is real early, 90's vintage Mansell, and I just didn't find it anywhere as enjoyable as some of her later novels.
xanabertolo's review against another edition
3.0
Mais um livro típico de Jill Mansell :) Deixa-me sempre bem disposta!!
Lê-se num instantinho. Gostei :)
Lê-se num instantinho. Gostei :)