Do You like book The Matzo Ball Heiress (2004)?
I want to like this book, the premise was interesting but upon reading it, I find everything in it to be so contradictory. She said it's a big secret that her family, the Matzo Ball Biggest Maker in America isn't kosher but she blabbed/revealed about that fact to everyone that she has just meet for only 5 seconds, including someone that can clearly be seen as very unreliable like her intern, Roswell. Second she said over and over again she's a heiress but she mentions about buying from a sample sale or stores that targets mid-to-low finance condition. Third, she makes as if she's depressed all the time, need to go to the psychiatrist, etc, but appears normal all the time. Also the book contains too much digression from the main plot / thing that is happening. The scene in the restaurant with Jared and Sarah for one, or the Amsterdam scene. All in all, a wasted good premise :(
—Diana
Okay, I'm not sure I can quite legitimately claim this one was recommended by Rebecca... more like she mailed it to me with a post-it note that read "terrible, but amazingly so!" And since I do whatever Rebecca tells me to do, and I can also be convinced to summon up at least a vague interest in pretty much anything involving Jews in New York, I read it. And totally enjoyed it. It's pretty absurd, but no one reads chicklit expecting anything less. And it turned out to be marginally less fluffy than I expected (which was actually to its detriment; it occasionally lapsed into taking itself too seriously to be much fun). The writing was decent and the protagonist's dad is gay. What's not to like?
—Katie M.
