2024 the best of everything by rona jaffe review
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Suspenseful, captivating, and ultimately moving, The Last Chance is about four women friends in their late thirties trying to survive the dangerous and fast-paced world of New York City while also battling the subtle violence in their private lives. Each of them has dreams of finding love, success, and adventure in the big city. Each is desperately searching for a last chance. They will make difficult choices and face unbearable consequences, and by the end of the year, one of the women will die an unnatural and uncanny death . . . The Last Chance is a tense and unexpected story about what it takes to survive and find control over your fate when everything seems to be working against you.
ASIN : B00T5H2C8C
Publisher : Open Road Distribution (February 24, 2015)
Publication date : February 24, 2015
Language : English
File size : 2255 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 286 pages
Reviewer: Jill Shure
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another Winner
Review: I am addicted to Jaffe's books. This one followed in the same vein as her other novels in that it delves into the lives of four well-educated women in the throws of their mid-life disappointments. When Jaffe wrote this, she was dealing with the 1970s and was questioning 1950's values which had defined her and her female contemporaries. Beautiful, frustrated, and sexually curious, these four women are breaking with old values and leaving comfortable, if not satisfying, traditional marriages, a prevalent event in that era.Though dated and defined by that revolutionary decade, the book is still a joy to read.
Reviewer: Katherine Reed
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good Reading
Review: Exciting. I would recommend this book. Interesting and likable characters. A very important and life altering year for 4 very different woman.
Reviewer: Susan SImpler
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The writing style is good, so I'm happy with the book itself
Review: The book is large print. I don't care for large print. I just started the novel. The writing style is good, so I'm happy with the book itself.
Reviewer: cormr
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: Good book.
Reviewer: KellyB
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Three Stars
Review: Decent read. Surprise ending but too much left hanging
Reviewer: [email protected]
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very compelling Book
Review: "The last Chance" was the first Jaffe novel that I discovered and it`s still my favorite(on place #2 I would put "Class Reunion")."The last Chance" is about a group of women living in NYC and having all kinds of (thrilling) experiences with love, their jobs, their children etcetera.A very unpredictable ending. Definitely a novel worth 5 stars rating.I know only one other author whom I would give 5 stars, and that is Nancy Thayer.
Reviewer: .YK
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Boring
Review: so boring...not Jaffe.
Reviewer: jo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: So well written. The story flowed with these four womens lives which I found to be so realistic and of its time. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested life in America in the 50's. I came upon Rona Jaffe by seeing her book The Best of Everything in the series Mad Men. It was the first chic lit book to be written and as far as I am concerned the best I have ever read. Thoroughly recommend both books to be enjoyed with a glass of wine or a few nice chocolates.
Reviewer: Client d'Amazon
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Bit too similar to her other books