... 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 ... Read review
A stunning and powerful contemporary love story from one of the best storytellers this ... more
century. Lily's life is turned upside down with the disappearance of her flat mate, incredible revelations about her family and a personal discovery, all of which will affect her forever!What if everything you believed about your life was a lie?
This is a stunning and powerful contemporary love story from one of the best storytellers ... more
in this century. Lily's life is turned upside down with the disappearance of her flat mate incredible revelations about her family and a personal discovery all of which will affect her forever... What if everything you believed about your life was a lie? Meet Lily Quinn. She is broke struggling to finish college pay her rent find love. Adrift in bustling New York City the most interesting things in Lily's life happen to the people around her. But Lily loves her aimless life! Until her best friend and roommate Amy disappears. That's when Spencer Patrick O'Malley a cynical past his prime NYPD detective with demons of his own enters Lily's world. And a sudden financial windfall which should bring Lily joy instead becomes an ominous portent of the dark forces gathering around her. But fate isn't finished with Lily. She finds herself fighting for her life as Spencer's search for the missing Amy intensifies leading Lily to question everything she knew about her friend and family.Startling revelations about the people she loves force her to confront truths that will leave her changed forever. From a master storyteller comes a new heart-wrenching magnificent and unputdownable novel. This is the odyssey of two young women Lily and Amy roommates and friends on the verge of the rest of their lives.
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Advantages: great characters, great story Disadvantages: ending a little rushed
...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 ... ...she is 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 ... more
When I got my amazon gift vouchers through 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 her and moved out of their apartment, and she is 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 her family and about Amy. So, will she build bridges with her family after all is uncovered, will she beat leukaemia, find Amy and live happily ever after with the man of her dreams? Well, you'll have to read the 599 pages to find out!
The book, I felt, dealt with a huge spectrum of issues, from terminal illness (Lily) to debt (Lily), from alcoholism (Lily's mother) to agoraphobia (Lily's Grandmother). Lily's family more or less repulsed me throughout. Her brother, Andrew a shady congressman, and her two married sisters are hugely selfish. Her mother is too, an alcoholic living with Lily's father in Maui, who thinks her life is too terrible to contemplate and doesn't give a flying monkey about Lily's illness or in fact anything but herself, and her father who is too weak to do anything else but put up with it. Her Grandmother, who hasn't left the house in years is less repulsive, just old and uncannily like my own- with her Polish roots and fussing over Lily and with only a little bit of that genetic selfish trait that the rest of the Quinn family possess.
There is much doom and gloom in the book, due to the issues covered but still odd bursts of humour throughout and a beautiful love story. I felt that the discovery of the truth in the great Amy mystery was little far-fetched however but eventually all the sub-stories get wound up to neat little balls, although I was slightly dissatisfied with the results of some of them. All round though, this is a beautiful book, beautifully written and the last sentence on the blurb on the back of the book is certainly true in my eyes, "The Girl in Times Square is a heart-rending and powerful story of love and lies, life and death." It's not easy reading, not like maybe Marian Keys or Sophie Kinsella, but it is an amzing story and once you get into it, you'll definitely want to see it through to the end. It's less like my usual mindless chick-lit, I still think this one is pretty much just for the ladies. So men, sorry, I have to say though, I am far too selfish to cater for your needs too!
The author, Paullina Simons is originally from the Soviet Union, emigrated to America in 1973 and now lives in New York and this is her fourth novel, published in 2005. I will certainly be going to have a look at the others, including Tully and Red Leaves.
The book is priced £3.99 paperback at amazon.co.uk, and there are copies from £2.39 in the marketplace, current sales rank 390. You can probably pick up a copy on eBay too, and I recommend that you do.
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
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Advantages: Easy to read, gripping Disadvantages: Unbelievable at times, some filler
...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
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Advantages: Wonderul storyline and characters, very gripping and compelling Disadvantages: Couldn't get into it at first, sometimes made me feel miserable
...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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Type
Fiction
Genre
Modern Fiction
Title
The Girl In Times Square
Author
Paullina Simons
ISBN
0007118910; 0007118937
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From the author of "Tully", "The Bronze Horseman" and "Tatiana and Alexander", comes a story as emotionally involving and broad in sweep as only Paullina Simons can tell. What if everything you believed about your life was a lie? Meet Lily Quinn. She is broke, struggling to finish college, pay her rent, find love. Adrift in bustling New York City, the most interesting things in Lily's life happen to the people around her. But Lily loves her aimless life! until her best friend and roommate Amy disappears. That's when Spencer Patrick O'Malley, a cynical, past his prime NYPD detective with demons of his own, enters Lily's world. And a sudden financial windfall which should bring Lily joy instead becomes an ominous portent of the dark forces gathering around her. But fate isn't finished with Lily. She finds herself fighting for her life as Spencer's search for the missing Amy intensifies, leading Lily to question everything she knew about her friend and family. Startling revelations about the people she loves force her to confront truths that will leave her changed forever. From a master storyteller comes a new heart-wrenching, magnificent and unputdownable novel.This is the odyssey of two young women, Lily and Amy, roommates and friends on the verge of the rest of their lives.
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