Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Fate and Ms. Fortune

While I admit this book took me forever to read it wasn't because the book sucked and it wasn't because it was long. So don't pre-judge, it took me forever to read because I haven't made the time.

Anyway.

The book, Fate and Ms. Fortune: A Novel is written by Saralee Rosenberg. I liked the ending few chapters of the book than I liked the rest of it. So if you were pondering a rating I'd give it 3 out of 5 stars. The book is funny and charming but did a lot of stringing along with the multiple plot lines.

Robyn Fortune is your main character and she definitely seems to have a lot of bad fortune going on in her life. She gets a divorce because her husband turned out be an obsessive gambler and ended up in jail. Her parents are on the verge of splitting up and it came out of the blue to their kids. And as a makeup artist who wants to be a stand up comedian...well things just aren't going her way.

I really liked the cultural aspects of it because Robyn and everyone around her are Jewish. So different components of a faith I know very little about were scattered throughout the story and it was fascinating to me.

At one point Robyn sees a fortune teller and honestly it is very interesting to me because many of the things she learned from the teller actually happened or were going to happen. Robyn kept referring to different coincidences which cropped up after her reading and even though this is a completely fictional story it still gave me chills.

Definitely chick lit. But I am happy I read it, it was quite entertaining and again, I loved how everything turned out.

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