The Girl In Times Square - Paullina Simons

...from dooyoo, I plodded onto the site and ordered myself some nice new bookies to read. The Girl in Times Square by Paullina Simons had been shoved into my recommendations, and so I decided to give it a go, intrigued by the plot synopsis, and desperate to have an excuse not to carry on reading the DaVinci Code. The book is centred on Lily Quinn, a 20-something girl who is studying Art at New York's City College. Her boyfriend Joshua has just dumped ...
...struggling to pay the rent. Then her best friend and other flatmate Amy disappears without a trace, and Spencer O'Malley, NYPD detective walks in to her life and they embark on a mission to find Amy, while wrestling all the while with their feelings for each other. Meanwhile two huge things happen to Lily, she wins the lottery, and then gets Leukaemia, and her life is in tatters. While she battles against the disease she finds out some truths about ...

fabulous_girl 22.05.2006 · Read full review
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In the past, I have read a few books written by Paullina Simons and have always enjoyed them, and always been impressed by how diverse in nature and content they have been from one another. However, I had not read any of hef books for a few years when I cama across 'The Girl in Times Square'. The back cover blurb intrigued me and it did seem well acclaimed by the critics. In fact, one quote from Company Magazine read 'Read it and weep - literally!' ...
...was a huge expectation for the book to live up to and there was a danger of being left disappointed. This was really not the case though as this book definitely delivered on all fronts. I have to admit that I did not really enjoy the first few chapters though and found it very difficult to get into. I found Paullina Simon's style a bit too enigmatic as normally I like a few signposts pointing the way the novel is going. The story was moving between ...

kingfisher111 12.07.2007 · Read full review
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...took a different approach to the genre. Simons’ novel centres around Lily Quinn, a normal college student who has just been broken up with. The start of the novel makes you wonder whether it will take any course other than the regular chick-lit style one of boy meets girl, boy and girl find problems, boy and girl overcome problems; but what Simons has done is to through some unusual situations into the mix that not only tug at your heartstrings ...
...budding romance isn’t necessarily the most important aspect of the story, and this is what, for me, really made the novel shine. Relatively early on in the novel when a few major things happen to Lily that affect her story for the rest of the duration of our time with her. Her roommate, Amy, goes missing, Lily comes into some money and then she becomes ill. This first event means that a whole new plot level of crime, mystery and drama begins to ...

heatherrr13 30.05.2007 · Read full review
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...college and struggling to pay the rent on her tiny New York apartment. But when her roommate and best friend, Amy, disappears, the events in Lily's life seem to spiral out of control. Two life-changing events, one good, one bad, find Lily and through Amy's disappearance she has to cope with her own troubles. Help comes in the form of Spencer O'Malley, the detective working on Amy's case, and against all odds he also brings love and happiness to Lily's ...
...question her whole life and the beliefs she held of both her friend and her family. ~ My opinion ~ I'd been recommend this book by someone who couldn't stop saying how much she had enjoyed it and how much of an effect it had had on her so I was very intrigued to see what all the fuss was about. The first part of the book starts off being written in a slightly weird way, and jumps from one character to another so at times I wasn't even sure who I ...

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