My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson | Fiction | DONNE TEMPO
My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson
May/09/08 04:54 PM Filed in: Fiction
Reviewed by Cecie O’Byron-England
Dorothy
Koomson’s,
My Best Friend’s Girl (Bantam Discovery, March
25, 2008, $5.99, ISBN-10: 055359141X, ISBN-13:
978-0553591415),
is an easy read. The writing is quick and
accessible. It is a classic in the English modern
farce style.
The plot is the tale of the broken hearted Kamryn and how she learns to love again through the adoption of her dead best friend’s daughter. It is almost pulpy, in that the story includes cheating fiancés, childhood abuse, physical abuse, foster homes and cancer.
However, Koomson uses the fast moving plot to advance the personal growth of her main character in an understandable way.
Kamryn must reach outside of her comfort zone, an insular, workaholic life, in order to help her dying best friend. She must also find it in herself to become a mother worthy of trust.
For those that struggle with betrayal or basic trust issues she can be an easy to relate to heroine, for those readers who assume everyone will rise to the occasion she is slow in her personal development.
This only fills out a well-written novel. I enjoyed the read. The book kept me interested and I finished it wanting to know more. That, in and of itself, makes it worthwhile.
The plot is the tale of the broken hearted Kamryn and how she learns to love again through the adoption of her dead best friend’s daughter. It is almost pulpy, in that the story includes cheating fiancés, childhood abuse, physical abuse, foster homes and cancer.
However, Koomson uses the fast moving plot to advance the personal growth of her main character in an understandable way.
Kamryn must reach outside of her comfort zone, an insular, workaholic life, in order to help her dying best friend. She must also find it in herself to become a mother worthy of trust.
For those that struggle with betrayal or basic trust issues she can be an easy to relate to heroine, for those readers who assume everyone will rise to the occasion she is slow in her personal development.
This only fills out a well-written novel. I enjoyed the read. The book kept me interested and I finished it wanting to know more. That, in and of itself, makes it worthwhile.