Between Males - Fiona Walker

I love Fiona Walkers previous books so when I saw this book was approx 600 pages rather than the 400 pages her other books are, I thought I was in for a real treat. I was very disapointed though when I started reading. The main character is called Odette,with a couple of other major characters. However, it's not until 3/4 way through the book that you actually realise who the major characters are. Straightaway, you are introduced to many characters ...
...about 10 more. There are way too many people featuring in this book, it seemed to me there were about 100 of them altogether. It's very confusing and it's extremely difficult to get emotionally attached to anyone including Odette, all the other characters take the focus off the major ones. I really struggled to get through this book, it's so slow, around page 100 I couldn't take much more, put it down for a day before picking it up again - grudgingly. ...

Evep 11.07.2001 · Read full review
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Between Males is written by Fiona Walker. I have read all of her previous novels, and couldn't resist taking a look at this one. As I expected, I found it almost impossible to put down. I just constantly wanted to find out what happened next. The main character of this story is a woman named Odette. She had appeared in the novel Snap Happy aswell. Many characters first mentioned in Snap Happy and Kiss Chase were featured in this story. (e.g. Pheobe ...
...Dylan, Mungo- all from Kiss Chase. Juno Glenn and Jay, Elsa and Euan Lydia and Finlay-all from Snap Happy.) Anyway, back to the plot. Odette has packed in her job and decided to invest a lot of money into opening a restaurant. She joins together with a man called Calum Forrester to set the business up, but Calum plans to wreck it. Meanwhile all her friends are getting married. She is beginning to feel lonely and her business venture seems to be ...

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Between Males is Fiona Walker's latest book and quite simply one of her best. It is a wonderfully good read and keeps you gripped throughout, i certainly couldn't put it down!!! Between Males is about a woman called odette, who decides to leave her high powered job to open a restaurant but when a mysterious bloke invests in it, she definately gets more than she bargained for. This book is not a conventional romance but odette wins over the reader's ...

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As a huge fan of Fiona Walker I had high hopes for this book, and incomparison with her others it doesnt fare well. However this book viewed on its own is well written, intelligent, funny and worth a read. Firstly the negative points: 1) I think most reviewers agree its basically far too long, had it been around two hundred pages shorter it would have been far better! 2) Too many charcters often with not a lot of depth, Callum especially could have ...
...of why he would destroy a business and a woman for no apparent reason at the very end and then quite unsatisfactorily. 3) Pretty predictable, not always a negative for me but I think guessing the ending from a few pages in is a bit much! 4) The main character Odette is not overly likable, while at times the reader can connect with the charcter there is too much desperation about her to want to connect!! Having said that there are also many great ...

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It is clear from the the outset that you are either going to love Odette or hate her and if you can wade through the mire of the first four hundred pages where she will irritate you more than a gussetful of fire ants, then you will be repaid with the calamine lotion that is the final two hundred pages. Odette is the kind of woman who subscribes to the adage that all women in business should model themselves on the Power Dressing Ball Busters of ...
...wanted and then cried Sexual Harrassment if it all went pear-shaped! This is how Odette ends up in such a cringeworthy predicament with the loathesome and twisted Callum Forrester; a man so greasy and awful he makes you want to go and wash. You can't help feeling that she has brought it all on herself - personally, I prefer to share some kind of reciprocity with my chick lit heroines; this girl, as far as I could see, needed a damn good shake! Regardless, ...

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This book is the most recent novel by Fiona Walker and, personally, I thought this story was nowhere near as good as her previous books. The central character is Odette, who first appeared in Walker’s previous novel, ‘Snap Happy’, as a friend of that story’s heroine, Juno Glenn. In ‘Between Males’, Odette is starting up her own club. The book follows Odette’s relationships – in particular, her relationships with Calum Forrester and Jimmy Sylvian ...

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