Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes

Surprisingly for a comic novel, the book also takes on the serious themes of clinical depression and alcoholism, handling both with sensitivity and humor. As Lucy says, ''I was still at that stage in my life when I thought that weekdays were for recovering from the weekend,'' but more often than not, her weekdays are as full of exhausting fun as her weekends. The attendant mayhem includes drunken meals at ethnic restaurants, flamenco dancing accidents, blind dates gone wrong and many delicious confessions and revelations. The identity of the lucky man will come as no surprise, though Lucy remains oblivious until the very end, but there are many eligible bachelors on the scene, among them Gus, Lucy's sexy but unreliable new lover Daniel, her oldest friend Chuck, a handsome American and Adrian, the video shop man. When the fortune-teller's prophecies for the other three come true in peculiar ways, even disbelieving, boyfriendless Lucy begins to suspect that, somehow, wedding bells will ring for her.

But when she visits a fortune-teller with a trio of mismatched friends, a marriage is predicted for the near future. A 26-year-old Londoner, Lucy is the kind of woman who thinks that any man who's decent to her must be Mr. (after Watermelon), fancies herself simultaneously miserable and happy.

Don't waste your time on this one, I felt like ripping my hair out on several occasions.Lucy Sullivan, the eponymous heroine of Irish writer Keyes's second offbeat romantic comedy to be published in the U.S. Absolutely no surprises along the way either, it is blatantly obvious who Lucy will end up with from the moment he's introduced, and every other plot point is predictable and cloying.

I really have trouble believing this is written by the same author as Last Chance Saloon and Sushi for Beginners, as this book is just riddled with horrible characters, tedious dialogue and a plot that is shallow at best. The protagonist, Lucy, is whiny, obnoxious and very faux-modest, and the dialogue is often either stilted or irritating ( take for example the constant need to address a person by name at the beginning or end of EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE.) The narrator definitely didn't help, as she had none of the charm usually possessed by Marian Keyes' narrators, and managed to make everyone sound even more entitled and awful. However, this book didn't contain a single likeable person. I usually love Marian Keyes, I find her tone of writing very funny and down to earth, and her characters are always relatable and human.

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes