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Martina Cole
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Pages: 576 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0755328671
Pub: Headline
Pub date: 2009-04-30
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7075
Reader Reviews:
HANG UP YOUR CROWN MARTINA COLE! (0/0 people found this helpful)
DONT BUY THIS BOOK!!
i have read all of cole's previous books and thoroughly enjoyed them but ''the business' is a load of rubbish, i found myself skipping pages and pages of repetitive character descriptions till i wanted to scream!! i have not even bothered to read most of it and found myself, for the 1st time EVER reading the last few pages instead so sick was i of the boring plot. there is hardly any dialogue and, as has been stated already, i got sick and tired of hearing how bad imelda was!! the storyline was dire, kind of ''been there done that'', the characters were awful and the plot just went on and on and on. borrow it from the library if you must BUT dont waste your money on this dreary, boring and utterly disappointing drivel!!
I have NEVER rated a book so low before ........ (1/1 people found this helpful)
I have never ever rated a book so low before. I can honestly say that I read a LOT of books. Martina Cole's early works were very, very good and she has turned out some excellent reads. However, this was absolute rubbish !! It is the first time I havent bothered a finshing a book and this is becuase I simply didn't want too. I was utterly bored stiff. I had read about 150 pages and all I had discovered was that Imelda wasn't very nice over and over and over again!!!!!!!!!! Huge chunks of the narrative are spent telling us the same thing about each character so many times !!
What on earth has happended ?? I would dearly love a response from Martina as her popularity has taken a huge dive. Ths book is absolute rubbish !!!!!!!!!!!!
This is definately worth reading (0/1 people found this helpful)
OK, I've read all the reviews and, although I can relate to a few of the points, overall I think this is another great book from Martina Cole. I have read nearly all Cole's book and I think this is still up there with the best of them. Imelda is a great character and described brilliantly....so much so that you can really get under her skin while you can really feel Jordanna's pain. The only weak point was the mother. Her character was confusing.. one minute she was supportive of her daughter Imelda, inviting her back into the family (at the end) while all the way through she rejected her. Martina's book, Faces, is the only book I really haven't enjoyed...in fact I thought it was a complete load of rubbish and often a struggle to pick up but The Business I was definately not dissapointed. I recommend to any M Cole fan to give it a go.
What a load of old rubbish....!!!! (1/1 people found this helpful)
I have never read so much drivel in all my life. I read The Ladykiller and Broken before this after hearing about how good they were and I enjoyed them both enough to buy an MC title of my own. I think she must have got Jordanna to write this, her vocabulary was obviously good enough to write a book at two, she just didn't have a clue about composition, which was like 'a car crash' of phrases, and an 'abortion' of a story, and had no idea how to stop herself from repeating everything she described about a hundred times. I agree with the other readers that the words could have been halved. I will certainly never read another book by this author. I only read it to the end as it was obvious Imelda had to go, and it was a bit like 'who killed Archie Mitchell', you just need to know who done it!
Not worth buying (2/2 people found this helpful)
I was very disappointed in this book, it was repetitive and seemed as if it had been written by a ghost writer or someone under the influence of alcohol that had forgotten what she had already written . The plot was all over the place and I wish I hadnt bother to buy it. Not recommended at all.
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