Abigail Bosanko

Romance? Chick lit? Women's lit? No idea. Another book with a potentially interesting idea, but it fell short on the story. A chess-obsessed lexicographer becomes the kept mistress of a stock millionaire who has a secret Cuban wife. The material of Mills&Boon, you might think, but the approach is more chick lit than romance (though not nearly snarky or witty enough). the whole book is rather lukewarm and falls short of each of my feeble expectations. I wanted more everything. more chess, more passion, more flavour, more LIFE! I kept reading, witing for something to happen, for the story to start already. I only finished it because I have nothing else I really want to read right now. And that's a very bad sign.… (mer)

Romance? Chick lit? Women's lit? No idea. Another book with a potentially interesting idea, but it fell short on the story. A chess-obsessed lexicographer becomes the kept mistress of a stock millionaire who has a secret Cuban wife. The material of Mills&Boon, you might think, but the approach is more chick lit than romance (though not nearly snarky or witty enough). the whole book is rather lukewarm and falls short of each of my feeble expectations. I wanted more everything. more chess, more passion, more flavour, more LIFE! I kept reading, witing for something to happen, for the story to start already. I only finished it because I have nothing else I really want to read right now. And that's a very bad sign.… (mer)