Sushi for Beginners

It's been quite awhile since I read a Marian Keyes book and I forgot how much I love her. She seems to effortlessly write realistic and over-the-top characters.

Lisa is the Miranda Priestly of Colleen magazine, except less nutso and more believable. Sure, she was a bitch and all about how she was ruined by this move but even in her bitchiness I found something to like. As she grew into her own self-discovery I liked her more and more.

Ashling is the everyday girl. She's everyone's friend, always trying to make everyone else happy and so desperate not to be her mother that she finds herself there anyway. Her slow descent into depression was painfully heart wrenching. It happens, just like that and I didn't want it to happen to her.

And, minor spoiler**Clodagh deserved everything she got.*Spoiler Over.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book. This is only the second non-Walsh family book of Keyes that I've read and I found that I could love the characters as much as I love the Walsh sisters.