POSSIBLY THE BEST SERIES I'VE EVER READ.

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	• Fourth Comings: A Novel (Jessica Darling) Megan Mccafferty Crown, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Meh

I grabbed the unabridged audio book at the library on a fluke - I enjoyed the story enough, but the insistence of the reader to SING when the characters do renders the story barely tolerable.

POSSIBLY THE BEST SERIES I'VE EVER READ.

I RELATE TO THE CHARACTERS IN THIS SERIES SO MUCH, THAT ONCE I START READING THEM I CAN'T PUT THEM DOWN. MY FAVORITE SERIES BESIDES HARRY POTTER OFCOURSE!

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What. Ever. For. Ever.

We first met Jessica Darling in _Sloppy Firsts_ when she was a fifteen-year-old New Jersey sophomore, smart, angst-ridden, and very confused about what life was supposed to be. She thought too much and over-analyzed everything. The second book took her through high school graduation and the third through Columbia (where she worked hard to graduate a semester early in order to save $15,000 on her student loan). Now Jes is twenty-two and living for a year in a Park Slope sublet, sleeping in the lower bunk bed while Hope, her artistic BFF, takes the upper. She's dependent on her married-well older sister for a ridiculous salary babysitting her niece while struggling as a freelance semi-journalist, she blows the one good job interview that comes along, and most of her old friends are safe in grad school. Things have changed a lot in the past half-dozen years, but the one thing that hasn't changed is her connection/separation relationship with the predictably unpredictable Marcus Flutie, now a twenty-three-year-old freshman at Princeton. When she went to break up with him for her own peace of mind, he sabotaged her attempt by proposing marriage. She insisted on a week to think about it and this is the story of that week, made up partly of her hilariously searing observations about contemporary events and partly of reflections on just how she arrived at this point in her life. McCafferty is truly a master of the language and the book is a delightful read just to watch her play with the language -- but it's much more than that. Her grasp of character and psyche is extremely apt and her view of New York intellectual weirdness in the first decade of the century is spot-on. Will there be a fifth volume? Who knows? What Ever.

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from Tarah of LoveReads! ([...])

When I got my hands on the fourth installment of the famous Jessica Darling series I was VERY excited, and I am happy to say that Megan has delivered another brilliant story!

When we last left Jess she was heading off on a roadtrip with her best friend Hope, still reeling after being handed a ton of notebooks by the on again of again Marcus Flutie. Unfortunatly, the roadtrip sadly ended as quickly as it began thanks to a couple of klepto college students and a crowbar. (probably went to my school actually since the place Hope and Jess stopped to eat is 5 min up the road from me!)

The story itself is meant to be a journaling of her life during a week after Marcus asked her to marry him. So once again Jessica is thrown a curveball wondering if shes the kind of woman that could handle a man like Marcus for life.

As I said before this is the summer after jess has graduated from Columbia and now she lives in an apartment that's named Sammy (I kid you not) with Hope and her sharing a room and the promiscious Manda and her girlfriend Shea sharing another. She is still looking for a job but is kept afloat finacially by her sister who pays her for watching neice Marin and she also has a quasi-editor job for a magazine called Think!.

The timeline of this book is only a week but contrary to what your probably thinking a lot happens. For those of us who have made the transition out of college into real life or are about to this is a great book. It is also a great book if you had those experiences either. I don't know why I like these books so much, maybe it's Jess's Dawsons Creek speech or something else. All I can say is I cant wait and I hope there is a next one!

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At first it seems that she?s living the elusive New York City dream. She?s subletting an apartment with her best friend, Hope, working for a magazine that actually utilizes her psychology degree, and still deeply in love with Marcus Flutie, the charismatic addict-turned-Buddhist who first captivated her at sixteen.

Of course, reality is more complicated than dreamy clichés. She and Hope share bunk beds in the ?Cupcake??the girlie pastel bedroom normally occupied by twelve-year-old twins. Their Brooklyn neighborhood is better suited to ?breeders,? and she and Hope split the rent with their promiscuous high school pal, Manda, and her ?genderqueer boifriend.? Freelancing for an obscure journal can?t put a dent in Jessica?s student loans, so she?s eking out a living by babysitting her young niece and lamenting that she, unlike most of her friends, can?t postpone adulthood by going back to school.

Yet it?s the ever-changing relationship with Marcus that leaves her most unsettled. At the ripe age of twenty-three, he?s just starting his freshman year at Princeton University. Is she ready to give up her imperfect yet invigorating post-college life just because her on-again/off-again soul mate asks her to... marry him?

Jessica has one week to respond to Marcus?s perplexing marriage proposal. During this time, she gains surprising wisdom from unexpected sources, including a popular talk show shrink, a drag queen named Royalle G. Biv, and yes, even her parents. But the most shocking confession concerns two people she thought had nothing to hide: Hope and Marcus.

Will this knowledge inspire Jessica to give up a world of late-night literary soirees, art openings, and downtown drunken karaoke to move back to New Jersey and be with the one man who?s gripped her heart for years? Jessica ponders this and other life choices with her signature snark and hyper-intense insight, making it the most tumultuous and memorable week of her twenty-something life.

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