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I was a bit sceptical at first as I thought she would be yet an other chick lit author but I've read (and enjoyed) a few of her books. However, I have just finished Goodnight Beautiful and it was soooo good. I takes a lot for me to say that and I also have to admit that it made me cry real tears on several occasions . I kept putting it down, thinking I couldn't read any more because I couldn't stop crying but I had to keep going. I'm very impressed!
Read MBFG and loved it. Marshmellows was a disappointment after that, and yes as you said Abbafan, annoyed me.
Have just been on holiday and took The Chocolate Run and the Cupid Effect with me. Loved both of them, The Chocolate Run I was biting me lip at parts hoping it would turn out well. Cupid effect was too Chiclit-y but still enjoyable.
My mum has just lent me Goodnight Beautiful, so am rushing thru the naff book am reading at the mo. Have good expectations after reading your reviews now
I'm really out of kilter with everyone else's opinion of Dorothy Koomson. I read My Best Friend's Girl and honestly thought it was one of the worst books I had ever read. It was sickly sweet, with a plot full of holes, and was so badly and imo immaturely written, it made me want to hurl it across the room.
I stupidly bought The Cupid Effect and Marshmallows for Breakfast at the same time, as I generally love chick lit, and thought I'd enjoy these. A year on they're sitting unread on the bookshelf as I just can't bring myself to waste precious time reading them.
Have just finished goodnight beautiful, and was gripped, thought it was a wonderfully written and enjoyed every tear stained page would recommend to all.
Dreadful. Read My Best Friend's Girl and thought it was pretty bad and for some barmy reason started Marshmallows for Breakfast. Couldn't finish that one. Never again.
What I didn't get in MBFG was that she was a buyer for a major store but couldn't afford a child monder things didn't add up and I just wanted to scream at the book.
I read MBFG (so good I had actually forgotten its name till this thread) and started the Marshmallows one, but like others here never finished it. Pretty dire...
I read My Best Friend's Girl, and thought it was dreadful. I thought to begin with that I was going to enjoy it; it started out with quite an interesting concept and initially I thought it was quite moving and interesting. The real problem is that it can't make it's mind up what it wants to be: a hard-hitting novel which tackles serious issues, or a fluffy bit of chick-lit. It doesn't really manage either.
The plot is completely unbelievable - and some of the key elements of the story are based on factual inaccuracies. I also suspect the writer has never been near a five year old child and should probably have done so if she wanted to write a book based around one!
I lost interest as soon as I realised that the entire plot had more holes in it than a sieve, and that the entire plot was based upon something which couldn't possibly have happened. I was also screaming inwardly in frustration at the terrible writing and the appalling typos on almost every page (but that's just the pedant in me!).
Totally agree, wigwambam, the typos and grammatical errors were countless. Whoever edited this book should have been sacked. I groaned out loud at when she devoted half a page to describing a shampoo.
The book would have been half the length if the drivel and twee descriptions had been cut out, and I wouldn't have wasted so much precious time reading it.
Haylstones - I like her! And I too sobbed so much in Goodnight Beautiful - I didn't think I would be able to finish it either.I actually did what I never ever do and peeked at the end as I didn't think I would be able to to cope without knowing what happened to him! In fact, I started a thread on here after reading it, and got zilch replies
I have read the chocolate run, marshmallows for brekkie, and the cupid effect and enjoyed all of them- although the cupid effect least so.
I have MBFG next on my 'to read' pile and Goodnight Beautiful is on my wish list. I LOVE chick lit, as I rarely get chance to read more than a few chapters at a time and it's really easy to dip in and out of.
I found DK books a refreshing change from the norm (even though I also love the norm iykwim) as her writing style is slightly different and the topics are slightly removed from the usual boy gets girl theme.
All of that said I can appreciate where people are coming from with the plots being slightly unbelievable (I find Cecelia Aherns books like this too, and I have read a few like this recently including one about imaginary friends?! but can't remember the author), but credit where credit is due it is only chick lit after all!
The plot of MBFG isn't just implausible though, lauzie - although it's definitely that. The whole thing collapses because one key aspect of the plot in particular is based on a glaring factual inaccuracy - something happens which is an absolute impossibility, and the entire plot - the whole story - revolves completely around that.
. I kept putting it down, thinking I couldn't read any more because I couldn't stop crying but I had to keep going.
things didn't add up and I just wanted to scream at the book. 
chick lit after all! 
