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Book Review:The Lonely Hearts Club, by Elizabeth Eulberg
Book Description: Love is all you need... or is it? Penny's about to find out in this wonderful debut.
Penny is sick of boys and sick of dating. So she vows: no more. It's a personal choice. . .and, of course, soon everyone wants to know about it. And a few other girls are inspired. A movement is born: The Lonely Hearts Club (named after the band from Sgt. Pepper). Penny is suddenly known for her nondating ways . . . which is too bad, because there's this certain boy she can't help but like. . . .
Warning: This book got a recommendation from Stephanie Meyer.
Actually this book gets bigger problems than having the honor to be recommended by Stephanie Meyer (Can anything else be more like a Kiss of Death for a self respecting author?) I am going to mention a few reasons why I can't enjoy The Lonely Hearts Club like I did Eulberg's other book: Prom and Prejudice.
But first let's get to the good parts: I like how Penny Lane's friends manage to gain some maturity as the story progresses---but sadly I can't see Penny Lane herself going through a similar progress. Anyway, I love Penny Lane's parents who are a pair of over-the-top die-hard Beatles devotees. They are so funny and awesome. Said parents' interactions with their daughters are great as well. Some of the parts about Penny Lane's school life are humorous as well.
My main concern is, why isn't this book about this pair of interesting parents?
But I have problem with how cliched and juvenile the whole idea about a school girl deciding that all boys are jerks (after one boyfriend cheated on her...) and deciding to start a club to tell other girls dating and boys suckass and they should avoid dating and boys to save themselves some problems.
The whole thing feels very much like a little 8 years old girl getting fed up and/or annoyed by her little boyfriend of the same age, and then she tells her little girl friends: "Boys are gross, let's not play with them!" After that all the little girls just go playing among themselves and ignoring the boys---for a while.
I actually like how Penny Lane's talking about girls should stand together to support each other and how they should avoid jerks who don't know how to value them, how it's more ideal to spend time with her friends instead of spending every single waking second to try attracting boys and keeping their boyfriends happy, but starting a club over 'not dating'? That's silly.
Okay, I really like the positive messages the author is trying to express, but I dislike how those messages are carried out.
Just equally as silly and cliched is Penny Lane's romance with her ex best friend's boyfriend. My goodness...it's so cheesy that I can't bring myself to mention any detail...
But I am not saying this book is irredeemably bad, I guess the main problem is, it doesn't measure up as a chick-lit, it is silly as a YA, the main idea is cliched in a much-ado-about-nothing sort of way; and it's not my cup of tea.
Book Description: Love is all you need... or is it? Penny's about to find out in this wonderful debut.
Penny is sick of boys and sick of dating. So she vows: no more. It's a personal choice. . .and, of course, soon everyone wants to know about it. And a few other girls are inspired. A movement is born: The Lonely Hearts Club (named after the band from Sgt. Pepper). Penny is suddenly known for her nondating ways . . . which is too bad, because there's this certain boy she can't help but like. . . .
Warning: This book got a recommendation from Stephanie Meyer.
Actually this book gets bigger problems than having the honor to be recommended by Stephanie Meyer (Can anything else be more like a Kiss of Death for a self respecting author?) I am going to mention a few reasons why I can't enjoy The Lonely Hearts Club like I did Eulberg's other book: Prom and Prejudice.
But first let's get to the good parts: I like how Penny Lane's friends manage to gain some maturity as the story progresses---but sadly I can't see Penny Lane herself going through a similar progress. Anyway, I love Penny Lane's parents who are a pair of over-the-top die-hard Beatles devotees. They are so funny and awesome. Said parents' interactions with their daughters are great as well. Some of the parts about Penny Lane's school life are humorous as well.
My main concern is, why isn't this book about this pair of interesting parents?
But I have problem with how cliched and juvenile the whole idea about a school girl deciding that all boys are jerks (after one boyfriend cheated on her...) and deciding to start a club to tell other girls dating and boys suckass and they should avoid dating and boys to save themselves some problems.
The whole thing feels very much like a little 8 years old girl getting fed up and/or annoyed by her little boyfriend of the same age, and then she tells her little girl friends: "Boys are gross, let's not play with them!" After that all the little girls just go playing among themselves and ignoring the boys---for a while.
I actually like how Penny Lane's talking about girls should stand together to support each other and how they should avoid jerks who don't know how to value them, how it's more ideal to spend time with her friends instead of spending every single waking second to try attracting boys and keeping their boyfriends happy, but starting a club over 'not dating'? That's silly.
Okay, I really like the positive messages the author is trying to express, but I dislike how those messages are carried out.
Just equally as silly and cliched is Penny Lane's romance with her ex best friend's boyfriend. My goodness...it's so cheesy that I can't bring myself to mention any detail...
But I am not saying this book is irredeemably bad, I guess the main problem is, it doesn't measure up as a chick-lit, it is silly as a YA, the main idea is cliched in a much-ado-about-nothing sort of way; and it's not my cup of tea.
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Don't read these sort of books anymore VK, they'll give you and ulcer, do you have a review for the last good book you liked?