Making your Mind Up - Jill Mansell

I have read many books by Jill Mansell and I have to say that I would rate 'Making Your Mind Up', which is her latest one, as one of her best. If you are not familiar with Jill Mansell, I think I would say that her novels fall into the category of 'chic lit' although I'm never quite sure exactly what that is! My own definition tends to be light modern fiction. Well Jill Mansell seems incredibly good at this and all her novels are very accessible and easy to read. I think that one of the most important things that influence whether you enjoy the book are the characters - you have to like them ... more

I have read a lot of Jill Mansell books, in fact I have read them all. I tend to find an author I like and read all their books before moving on. Mansells books are easy going modern romance with a certain real aspect that you can believe they could really happen that way. nothing is ever as simple and straight forward as falling in love and living happily ever after. Mansell always throws in some complication to the situation, making it as close to life as possible. I read this book twice in a row the first time i read it and am sure will re read it once more as i do all her books. An author ... more

Making Your Mind Up was just so boring I couldn't even read the whole thing. In fact I think I only managed to get about half of the wway through. I read Jill Mansell's Nadia Knows Best a whils ago and although it's not great literature it's an easy going , slighty the humours romance. The problem with this latest offering is it's exactly the same, the charaters names have changed and the storyline a little different yet essentially it's the same old story. Lottie Carlyle the main female character is a feisty single woman just as it seems all Jill Mansell's female leads are. It basically ... more