A fun chick read!

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	• The Friendship Test: A Novel Elizabeth Noble Harper Paperbacks, 2006 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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Decent Chick Lit

No doubt that Noble can write! While she could easily succumb to the chick lit phenom and write half-baked, "Sex and the City"-type book. But instead, she gives real thought to the characters, their own backstories, and how they interact. The main three characters are complete, with issues and problems of their own.

The complaints I have are:
1. Things wrapped up a bit too neatly. I would have liked to see a little more change and friction instead of a "they all lived happily ever after" end.

2. Freddie is supposed to be American, but she uses turns of phrases that NO American would use. Same for some of the dialog when the story moves to Massachusetts. Noble should have had an American editor read through for these slips that really distracted me.

3. With all the talk about "The Friendship Test," I think they would have applied the test to all the women in the book they encountered -- including Rebecca and Grace. I was very interested to see how they stacked up.

Still, a great book that was a fun read.

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I loved this book

I think this is a very good book...it kept my attention and I kept reading late into the night to find out how everything turned out...I am going to buy the Reading Group next because I think this author is a very good story teller.

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A fun chick read!

This is not a deep literary work of genius, but it is a fun, engaging read. It's not horribly complicated, so it is ideal for the busy woman who doesn't have time to read daily religiously, but needs to be able to pick it up without having to backtrack through the book to get reacquainted with what happened the last time she left off. The characters are like friends we all have and love, as well as those we put up with just because we've known them forever. The long time childhood friends are all at different stages of their lives, there are a couple of twists & turns. All in all a fun, worthwhile read.

If you liked the Briget Jones's series, Lisa Jewel's books, Jane Green's books, the Shopaholic series, and the likes of that genre, this will be right up your alley.

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Good Light Read

I bought this book after reading Alphabet Weekends, which I liked. It is an easy read and great book for airplane, sits by the pool or just laying around on the weekend.

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One late wine- and gossip-fueled night, four friends on a lark create a fateful test of friendship -- one that challenges the very principles and boundaries of their alliance. To pass it means to never, at any cost, betray one another. Twenty years later, they must face that ultimate test.

We meet them at the dawn of their camaraderie in the 1980s and already each woman is distinguished from the other: Tamsin, the compassionate mother hen; Reagan, the brazen and clever overachiever; Sarah, the seemingly perfect beauty; and Freddie, who despite being far from her U.S. home, finds strength in her friends. We forward to today, and as promised they are still firm friends . . . that is until a crisis occurs and the principles that define their friendship test are challenged. Exquisitely rendered by Elizabeth Noble, The Friendship Test is a powerful testament to the depth and capacity of female relationships.

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