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 enlarge | Author: Jane Green
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
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Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 4180
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0452289440
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780452289444
ASIN: 0452289440
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
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 Second Chance September 25, 2008
It has a lot of talk around the topics of men, marriage, sex, make-up, clothes, best friends, affairs, gossip, and kids. I did not know what I was getting myself into because this is the first book I have read by Jane Green. I am disappointed.
 Simply Amazing August 26, 2008
This book is amazing. I have never heard of Jane Green prior to reading this book and I am in love with her literature. This book helps you realize how friendship is an amazing blessing in anyones life.
 Smells like the Big Chill August 25, 2008
I was so disappointed with "Second Chances". I have loved many of Jane Green's books, escaping to the funny world of her protagonists and transporting myself back to England. The character's were flat and the circumstances in the book seemed a photocopy of the Big Chill. Within the first chapter, I could not wait to get the book over with as this scenario has been done many times and I kept expecting a new twist. Hope better for the next one.
Predictable and repetitive August 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book to read on a plane, and I only finished it because I had nothing better to do. The characters are boring and annoying, repeating themselves over and over again. It's so exasperating!
This is the first book by Jane Green that I've read, so I don't know about the rest, but I would definitively recommend avoiding it!
 An okay commuter book August 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A commuter book is my version of the "beach book." It's something for me to do on the train, but light enough to not take seriously or even pay TOO much attention to because I know I'll be distracted by train stops and other such things.
While I think Jane Green had an interesting idea, it was poorly executed with very cliche characters and immature, one--dimensional dialogue. At some points, I said to myself, "Wow, I can't believe Jane had the nerve to even write such things," in response to things that only 12-year-old high school girls would say, bt were coming out of 30-something year old's mouths.
I think this book's ultimate demise, however, is the end. There was a LOT of leading up to what decisions the main character's would make, especially Holly's. After the big climatic confrontational chapter, the next was a quick (cop-out) conclusion about how each character ended up during a "reunion" scene. Never was it explained how some of the characters made very different choices for their personalities or beliefs. Some others, however, were very predictable, which is okay for an entertaining chick lit book.
Overall, I enjoyed it, I suppose. It had it's major faults, and I don't think Jane Green is the best of chick-lit writers by any means. But it's an entertaining read if you need something to do on your 40-minute commute to work each day. The characters are at times very annoying, as far their descriptions by Ms. Green, but the stories and how everyone intertwines are, for the most part, relateable. If this book had been better written, I'd have been more happy with it.
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