Three Girls and a Wedding

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Three Girls and a Wedding (Three Girls #2) By: Rachel Schurig

Plot:

Jen Campbell loves weddings. In fact, she loves them so much that she became an event planner in the hopes that she would one day get the chance to help women create the fairy tale day of their dreams…Unfortunately, the only thing Jen has been allowed to plan so far are boring restaurant openings and children’s birthday parties. When Jen’s big break finally comes, she realizes that wedding planning is a heck of a lot more complicated than picking out the perfect flowers and cake. Add to the chaos a pair of fighting friends, a totally pressuring mother, and a ridiculously gorgeous (but moody) best man, and Jen has her work cut out for her. In Three Girls and a Wedding, Jen Campbell will try to plan the perfect wedding and maybe—just maybe—create her very own happily-ever-after.

Review:

Wasn’t not too happy with this ending. I felt like there was a whole scene left out. Throughout the book Jen’s work partner has been a total douche bag putting all the work on her and even man handling her at one point. At the same time the clients she’s working for rave about how awesome she is and how they’re going to give her a great review to her bosses. With all that build up I was expecting a scene where the partner and she are brought in front of the bosses and the partner is fired while Jen is offered a promotion. Proving that being a douche doesn’t pay. Instead all that happens to the partner is that Jen thinks he’s alone and nobody loves him. So? I want more than that!

Jen ends of going into business with her client and starting her own event planning business. This would have made the confrontation scene with the bosses even better because she could have been torn. Does she take the promotion and put off opening her own event planning business until she’s in a better financial place or does she take a chance? But nope never happened she just jumps at the opportunity and jumps up and down.

Disappointed in the ending but will continue the series.

3/5

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

Director:

Kenneth Branagh

Starring:

Chris Pine

Kevin Costner

Keira Knightly

Plot:

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

Review:

Jack Ryan is not an action star. He’s an analyst. He’s smart, he uses is brain, he’s not jumping off of cars and all that other crap. At least in the books.

If you go into this movie and know nothing about Jack Ryan you’ll probably enjoy it. If I think of it as not a Jack Ryan movie I enjoyed it. But the facts are Jack Ryan is the name and there is just enough there to make me remember what it’s supposed to be.

2/5 for Jack Ryan book fans

3/5 for everyone else

Despicable Me 2 (2013)

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Despicable Me 2 (2013)

Director:

Pierre  Coffin

Chris Renaud

Starring:

Steve Carell

Kristen Wiig

Benjamin Bratt

Plot:

Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.

Review:

Adorable. That’s Despicable Me 2 in one word.

I haven’t seen the first movie but I figured since it was a kids movie that wouldn’t be a problem. It wasn’t. I’m sure there were little things that I missed because of it but it didn’t make the movie any less cute.

Gru as an over protective father was funny. The minions were hilarious.

Loved it!

Now I need to see the first one.

5/5

House M.D. (2004-2012)

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House M.D. (2004-2012)

Network:

Fox

Starring:

Hugh Laurie

Omar Epps

Robert Sean Leonard

Lisa Edelstein

Plot:

An antisocial maverick doctor who specializes in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way using his crack team of doctors and his wits.

Review:

I watched the first four or five seasons of House way back in the day on Hulu. I then tried to watch it live but for whatever reason couldn’t get into it. Now that all the episodes are on Netflix I decided to give it another shot.

I started at the very beginning so I’d get the full experience of binge watching. Plus I didn’t remember all the character intricacies, though I did remember a surprising number of episodes.

Love the relationship between Wilson and House. The fact that Wilson can mess with his mind is pretty awesome.

I preferred the first four seasons, the fifth season focused on relationships too much. I liked the sexual tension between Cuddy and House better than when they actually did stuff. I also preferred when each episode had a patient in the clinic that helped House figure it out.

When they started teasing with the last few episodes that Wilson was going to die I was pissed off. I could handle House dying but Wilson would have made me hate the show. I know the way they left it you could infer that Wilson does die, but I like to think that he comes to his senses and does the chemo and gets all better. Then he and House spend the rest of their days in Mexico or some South American country being doctors.

4/5

Three Girls and a Baby

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Three Girls and a Baby (Three Girls #1) By: Rachel Schurig

Plot:

Ginny McKensie’s life is spiraling out of control. Finished with college, she should have been planning her wedding. After all, Ginny and Josh were made for each other—everyone said so. Except the love of her life didn’t agree. Now Ginny is back in her hometown, unwillingly single, and stuck in a dead-end job. When she discovers she’s pregnant, Ginny is convinced her life is ending. Instead of planning a future with Josh, she’s learning the truth about morning sickness, juggling bills, and seeing just how far designer jeans can stretch. Her life-plan never included dating again (not even with her too-hot new boss), or being a single mother at 23. Now, with the help of her best friends, Annie and Jen, Ginny must try to re-imagine—and rebuild—a life she never wanted.

Review:

I thought this was going to be a romance but it wasn’t. It had romantic elements but it was more of a story about a girl who started to finally grow up. There were parts, especially at the beginning, where I just wanted to scream at her. I had a hard time relating to her, mainly because when I got pregnant I was so desperately happy but her pregnancy was a mistake. So I didn’t have much in common with the main character.

Her character developed though and by the end she wasn’t that same self absorbed little girl that didn’t know what she wanted in life. She had a purpose and it wasn’t just being a mom, she hadn’t jumped from burying herself from one person to her baby. She had a job that she really enjoyed and was moving up in it.

I did have a hard time taking someone seriously that thought being a bookstore clerk was a good career decision but whatever, it worked out for her. It’s a book.

4/5