Jules Wake
Autore di The Little Café in Copenhagen
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Opere di Jules Wake
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Wake, Jules
- Altri nomi
- Caplin, Julie
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
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Christmas Books (2)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 30
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 572
- Popolarità
- #43,783
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 30
- ISBN
- 105
- Lingue
- 10
In this book self-effacing heroine Maddie Wilcox has taken a job as crew aboard a luxury yacht sailing around Croatia. Her best friend’s brother Nick comes aboard as a guest, on the arm of a spoilt and entitled model. Maddie finds herself doing an eye roll a minute as she waits on the brattish guests and is disappointed to find Nick as part of this until later in the cruise when she discovers there is more to him than she thought.
This was a light, easy beach read style of novel. I was a little conflicted by the nice ordinary girl versus the soulless beautiful-ones theme, as on one hand it is obviously relatable but also reduces people to stereotypes and is somewhat simplistic. Many of the characters in this book were very one dimensional but I guess it does highlight some of the superficiality of the modern social-media driven world and the shallowness of the celebrity lifestyle. Maddie was a refreshing counterpoint to this, but I did get tired of her putting herself down.… (altro)