Pink Slip Party
By Cara Lockwood
317 pages
...6.5/10

Okay so I said it was 7.5/10 in that post I did before, but I changed my mind. Hmm.. Okay, anyways, on with the review.
I can see how some people might love this book, but I didn't find it that good. To be honest, in some ways, it seemed like she was trying to be like Sophie Kinsella. Or maybe it was just her own style of writing. I don't know. Cuz before every chapter, there was an e-mail or a letter that seemed very Shopaholic-y, but somehow it didn't. OK, I AM NOT MAKING ANY SENSE HERE. Whew. If you have read Shopaholic books, then you might understand. The way that the letters seem to be like another part of the story, and they never talk directly about the letters themselves.

So this is what the book is about.
Jane McGregor. She got fired and dumped on the same day. Her job was designing 'pink slips'. For.. stuff. I have no idea. And it says that the slips aren't even pink. And they're not slips. So I was reading it and I was like
'umm.. yeah. OH IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY!! AHAHA...ha...h... egh.'
Anyways. Ahem. So she's looking for a job, and probably a guy. She sends out a bjillion resumes, and 99% of them don't say the truth. So before every chapter, there is a letter or an email from a company, or someone, that rejected her. In a supposedly funny way. So, she doesn't have a job, so she kinda can't pay her rent. Her dad always wants her to move into a smaller apartment, since he thinks Jane diesn't need such a big one for herself and would save her some money. Her brother is the guy who really wants to help her get a job. The one who keeps bugging her about sending out more resumes, thinking more about what she wants to do next, that sort of stuff.

Okay that's all I remember. I wonder if, by the way I talked about it, if the book sounded appealing. Well, it's not that bad. The actual plot itself was okay, but there were SO many things that seriously could've been much better. The title, for example. Pink Slip Party. Hmm. Well, to be honest, I forgot all about that little mention of her previous job (the pink slip thingy) by the end of the book. The title did not make sense. And there wasn't exactly a party. Okay maybe there was, one, but it did not go with the 'Pink Slip' thing. So.. there wasn't a Pink Slip Party. Not even metaphorically, I don't think.
Oh, and theres the ending. I mean, more like the last sentence. Okay fine, the last paragraph. Which only consisted of two sentences, so not much difference. But thats not my point (haha it would be so weird if I didn't like this book because of the # of sentences the last paragraph had!!). The very end referred to a pair of sunglasses from.. somewhere.. or someone... or... umm.. no okay seriously. By the end, the very end, I was so confused. the pair of sunglasses was mention once, if not like.. half times, in the beginning of the book. Not exactly the most convenient thing to remember, eh?
AND, there were like.. constant references to drugs and sex and stuff. So apparently one of his friends is a drug dealer, somehow, somewhere, oh I don't know. And people sometimes turn up at Janes appartment, when the whatshisname friend is there, and buy drugs. In like.. paper bags or something. But that stuff happens, right? So it wasn't as bad as the sex stuff.
I know authors expect that their readers would be really mature or whatnot, but this person needs to know that sometimes, it gets to the point where it's disgusting. Seriously. Enough's enough. Sheesh. Some things, or thoughts, should be.. uh.. just kept in our minds. Not 'our' as in mine and yours, but just.. or maybe I should have said the author's mind. Yeah. Hers. Cara Lockwood. Yeah, her. HHeerrrr. Okay I'll stop now. Really.

So.. this book wasn't amazing (as if you couldn't tell) but it wasn't horribly horrible bad bad bad. It was like.. okay-ish-bad. (Nice word there, eh?) It's a book that I think certain people would still really love. Maybe this just wasn't the style I like. Hmm. But seriously, I mean, the title, ending, and umm. [that stuff] could have been different. I think the title and end are like.. propbably the more important parts of a book. If the title doesn't describe what the book's about, ... well then it's uh.. screwed up. Heh. And actually, the ending - the idea was good. The very last paragraph was unnessecary (spelt wrong, I think). I would have liked the ending if the last paragraph was taken out - or in my case, if I just didn't read it. Once I read it, I mean read the last sentence, I was very confuzzled, I didn't get it. It was just like, "HUH?!"

Anyways..
would have been .. 57 hours. cuz I'm only counting reviews, not all the books I read. Darn. And remember, I'm only counting for fun.

--Jessica--

Oh and I don't think this review, that is full of like.. disses, would be really good for a newsletter.


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