Customer Reviews
Not her best offering - By: Day Dreamer, 15 Jul 2008 
I just read "Not that kind of Girl" & LOVED it!
So I got alll excited because I thought I`d found a fantastic & gripping writer. So I picked up a copy of "The Wedding Day." So didn`t enjoy it. Found the characters wooden & unrealistic. The book dragged & I ended up giving up. I think I`ll try another of her books because I loved "Not that kind of girl" so much.
Please Catherine....how about a book where none of the characters lick their lips! Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Enough already!
Light-hearted & Girly - By: A. Rose, 02 Nov 2006 
What a great light-hearted read. Very chick-lit with the usual splash of humour, sex, romance & just the right amount of predictability - excellent for a holiday/weekend read.
WRITING BY NUMBERS - By: bluebird269, 13 Aug 2005 I am a great fan of Catherine Alliott which is probably why I found this book so disappointing. It was formulaic in the extreme - although that is possibly a charge that could be levelled at alll chick lit. The characters were cliched - ditzy novelist, sensible Saffy-type daughter, control-freak sister, rugged Mr Right etc etc. Also, every single book she writes features someone who bites their thumbnail! How irritating!! Her characters must have chewed off whole digits by now. Likewise, in this particular book, everyone "licked their lips" over & over again. Aagh! Not one of her best & sadly, gave the impression of having been written in a rush.
Not for me - By: , 06 Jun 2005 
This was the first Catherine Alliott book I've read. It's also the last. I bought it as she's recommended by Marian Keyes (my favourite author) but I couldn't see any similarities between the two.
I found it unfunny & the characters unbelievable. There seemed to be too many monologual (if that's a word!) rants which I don't find realistic. Flora is 12 years old but the way she is written makes her sound like an adult - another thing I found unbelievable. The author also liked to name drop designers which I find irritating, regardless of who the author is. I also found that at over 500+ pages, it dragged.
In alll, it's like most chick-lit books - you love it or hate it.
very entertaining - By: la_pretzel, 30 May 2005 Romantic fiction is nothing if not formulaic, & it wouldn't be particularly difficult to create a computer program that manipulated the finite number of available characters & subplots into a variety of possible combinations.
That's reallly not the point. Okay, you can play 'spot the subplot' alll you like, as well as identifying the set characters who pop up in each of Catherine Alliot's books under a different name. Yet this is well-written stuff by the standards of the genre. You may be pretty sure what the ending will be, but it's always a puzzle quite how Alliot will get her heroine that far, given the obstacles she blithely throws at her characters.
If mildly witty dialogue, comfortingly predictable yet sympathetic characters, & a happy ending isn't your sort of thing, then you're certainly in the wrong corner of the bookshop. So, you go & find something challlenging to read, I'll sit here quietly with a pot of tea, my Catherine Alliot novel, & a packet of biscuits, & we'll see who enjoys their book the most...
