Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, by Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes is considered one of the founders of the chick lit genre.. And you know that I have a rather big weakness for this kind (if not go to the Romancesection, my more or less successful politically correct translation of "chick lit"). Plus, one of her books, Watermelon, has been recommended in Sentimental Garbage, which has a great influence on my reading. I absolutely had to read it.

The problem is that for a founder of the chick lit genre, Marian Keyes is not super well represented in the French-speaking world. I don't think that Watermelon is translated into French, and the English version is just not in stock on leslibraires.ca. But by chance, the other day, I found Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married in a box of books. It was destiny: it was through it that I would be introduced to Marian Keyes.

Summary

Lucy, the one in the title, is told by a fortune teller that she will soon be married. Of course she doesn't believe a word of it: she doesn't even have a boyfriend, it's a bit difficult to be further away from getting married than that.

But our Lucy is a romantic at heart, and she can't help but hope. Especially when she meets this handsome boy who is exactly her kind: cute, artistic, funny... poor, selfish, unreliable... Who is breaking her heart...

Maybe it's time for her to ask herself why she finds this kind of guys so attractive. Maybe that would allow her to recognize that love, real love, has been there from the very beginning.

Impressions

The book started out pretty well, Lucy was funny, I liked the English humor. The book has a bit of a Friends, with several very close roommates who love and fight with each other, and we agree that it is comforting.

And then, all of a sudden, it became difficult. One bad joke after another, grossophobic jokes, suicide jokes... Please. It makes you uncomfortable. I'm not sure why I continued.

Thankfully, it has recovered. The frequency of bad jokes has decreased, and it turns out that I actually really like the point of this book. It's a story about a young woman who realizes that she was idealizing a father figure who was actually unhealthy, and then changes her kind of men. And turns to the one who really loves her. And when that happens, oh how cute. My heart swelled up.

It is therefore a book that I do not recommend to sensitive people. But if you can get over the bad taste, there is a very nice moral, which can do a lot of women good.