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Can I just recomment to you all Koomson's The Ice Cream Girls?

15 replies

compo · 06/04/2010 21:40

It's bloody fantastic, keeps you gripped right to the end

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BelleDameSansMerci · 07/04/2010 20:48

More info? Although, of course, I could just look it up on Amazon...

OllieWollieWoo · 10/04/2010 11:09

This is on my wish list so glad you liked it. Thought it would be a good one to take on hols in June (yes I am that sad I plan reading material months ahead!!!!!! Hate having all that time to read only to find the books I've got are pants!)

compo · 13/04/2010 12:46

It is a brilliant read. easy to read in a couple of days. Despite the cover it is not a fluffy chicklit, it is dark and twisty
enjoy

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TwentiethCenturyHeffa · 13/04/2010 12:49

Oh, I read this a couple of weeks ago and loved it. I've been meaning to try and get hold of some of her other books, anyone know if they're as good?

twolittlemonkeys · 13/04/2010 12:55

Oh I've been meaning to read that. I enjoyed My Best Friend's Girl by her too.

compo · 13/04/2010 12:56

yes My Best Friend's Girl is brilliant too
I've got another on order at the library but I've forgotten the name

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SpicedGerkin · 13/04/2010 12:57

Some are better than others imo, i enjoyed MBFG

phoenixflower · 13/04/2010 21:33

compo - would love to know what happens at the end. Don't suppose you're allowed to post spoilers on here though as it might ruin for other readers!

TwentiethCenturyHeffa · 14/04/2010 07:41

I've ordered a few of hers from the library so will see what they're like. Thanks for the tip about My Best Friend's Girl.

atswimtwolengths · 19/08/2010 19:31

Oh this is dreadful! It had a lot of potential (except for the fact that DK was writing it) but there were so many holes in the plot.

The end of the book is absolutely awful - a point of view from the grave ffs! Anyone could write anything if they could have someone whose voice hasn't been heard throughout explaining everything.

I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but the actual way the person died was ridiculous - such a massive, massive coincidence.

The characters (as always in DK books are so stereotypical - the main character always has to have someone say she's absolutely stunning.

Also (revving up speed here) why didn't the two girls just tell the bloody truth when they were caught. Why did one girl get 20 years in prison and the other nothing at all? Why did the one who got 20 years, who had always pleaded her innocence, actually get released, as you have to admit guilt to be released. Why did a 15 year old get 20 years in an adult prison anyway!!!

But most of all, surely as both girls had been covered in bruises and had visited casualty numerous times, why was this not used in their defence? Where did their parents think the bruises were from? Wouldn't you suspect, if your daughter had a boyfriend and was then covered in bruises, that the two events were connected?

Arrrrrrrrgh, sorry, just finished reading it and have thrown it across the room!

atswimtwolengths · 19/08/2010 19:33

Oh and why did DK say that the man was tortured? He wasn't!

jamaisjedors · 19/08/2010 20:03

God I hated my best friend's girl.

It sticks out in my mind as a waste of money and my time.

Sorry Sad

atswimtwolengths · 19/08/2010 20:15

I hate her female characters. And the male ones!

Bimbledorf · 19/08/2010 22:47

atswim - couldn't have put it better myself. Seriously lame and totally predictable. Also extremely contrived and trying to make a point that just wasn't a point because it WAS so contrived and predictable. I got really bored waiting to see what the end was, so flicked to it - saw that it was as obvious as I thought it was and gave myself a pat on the back for not having wasted anymore time on it!

paisleyleaf · 19/08/2010 23:07

Someone recommended 'My Best Friend's Girl' to me - I'm not going on their recommendations again.

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