![]() What the heck was that? Again, maybe an attempt to be funny, but where was her editor? All in all, a weak "okay" at best. Chris's car was stolen? What? Jackie's husband wore a wig? What? Lastly, I was flabbergasted by the note in the conclusion thanking all the "brave men and women" who took cocaine for the purposes of research and reported to the author how it felt so she could use it in her book. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. ![]() ![]() Prepare to laugh and cry by turns with Rachel and the Walsh family. ![]() Luckily, it was abridged, you might be thinking: but the abridgement was truly a hatchet job, leaving several noticeable gaps in the story that an alert editor should have sorted out. From internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes comes the eagerly awaited sequel to Rachels Holiday. However, as an audiobook it was only okay: the reader seemed over-earnest and lacked the ability to offer any accent besides her own basic Irish the long flashbacks and retelling of various unhealthy decisions, made unskippable by the audio format, became boring or unbearable. ![]() I like Marian Keyes, and I remembered Rachel's Holiday as being both funny and intense, chronicling Rachel Walsh's realization of her addiction and her steps to cure it. ![]()
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