The Wonder Spot

Giggle Out Loud

Melissa Banks' writing is witty and peppy. Her character and story kept me interested enough to finish the book. But do you know how some stories and characters live in your blood for the time you're reading the book? And you might even start to speak like the character? This didn't quite happen with The Wonder Spot. Still, an engaging tale and well worth it for the funny moments.

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A Perfect Beach Read

This sweet often funny story moves very fast. It is not the best, most well written book I have ever read (or read recently, for that matter) but it is at times laugh out loud funny, and certainly rings true from time to time. I read this in about 2 sittings at the beach and at home, and was glad I did.

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I think it was better that her first

Fabulous! I found the main character very easy to relate to in this one. And I liked the fact that you had to think about how each story fit together into one book. I also could not put it down and was very very pleased with the ending. It was not the cliched 'happily ever after.'

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Didn't want to put it down

The stories are cute so sad to finish it but can't put it down.

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Not a great book

boring

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same as her first book, but not as great

I liked this book, I love the way Bank writes. It was an easy read that you didn't want to put down, but I had a hard time with it because I thought the main character was the exact same as the main character from her first book, the Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing (which I absolutely loved.) The main characters had the same sense of humor, the same jobs, the same family, the same attitude and it was also written in the same style. But unlike the Girls Guide, Bank didn't really spend too much time in this book developing relationships between Sophie and anybody. The stories weren't as touching, and although I just finished this book a few weeks ago, I don't really remember that much of it. This book felt like she was trying to re-create her first but fell short.

Good read.......didn't like the ending

Book was good however I wished that there was a sequel or it ended differently.

But other than that I really enjoyed the book

Okay, not great

I agree with most, it was a good easy read. It was also blah. I think the author got bored with it. I wonder if she was forced a deadline to write this book and this is what happened.....Will be interesting to see if she ever comes out with anything else....

Disappointing Ending

I liked this story until the final chapter which shares the same title as the book. It seemed as if the author got tired of writing and just slapped one last part in. Nothing felt pulled together. Very unsatisfying ending.

Good but not great

I really liked this book compared to Banks other book that I didn't even finish. I felt Wonder Spot really captured the confusion of being in your mid20s and trying to find a career, a soul mate, and direction. I think that is why the book ended the way it did, it kinda keeps in the tone of the books confusion and overwhelmingness of finding out who you are and becoming a grown up.

Wait for the paperback

Like most other reviewers, I really enjoyed Banks' last book, Girl's Guide To Hunting and Fishing. Wonder Spot has the same sense of style and humor, but it manages to fall short of expectations. Each story is capable of standing on its own, but the repetition of characters and references throughout the book detract, not add, to the overall read.

Doesn't match up to her first novel

I have to say I am quite disappointed by this book. Like many people, I loved the first one, and when this book came out, I bought it without any hesitation. I still like her use of words and the unique way of see things, but without a theme, this book looks like pieces of life stories put together just for the creation of a book. After reading the first 60 pages, I almost wanted to stop reading it.

Brilliant!

Melissa Banks has done it again. This is simply a MUST READ. Her words and stories are like spending time with your very best friend.

Okay, but not great!

I loved The Girl's Guide, and I've read and re-read it over the last 4 years. I was at the bookstore for this one the day it came out, and was shockingly disappointed from the beginning. It is a shadow of Banks¿ last novel -- situations and some names are even the same, but unlike Jane from The Girl¿s Guide, I never got a sense of what Sophie is really like. I caught glimpses of her, but at the end I couldn't tell you who she is, or where she encounters her wonder spots. When I reached the end, I didn't care more for her than I did at the beginning. Take your time getting to the bookstore for this one. Or better yet, wait your turn at the library.

Light, Enjoyable Read

I read this entertaining novel in two days. I love the way Melissa Banks uses words to describe events in the life of a quirky and naive-but-learning woman. Banks uses the same layout of her popular novel 'The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing', capturing her protagonists' life in snapshots over the course of her life. Though Banks doesn't go much beyond her first novel, it still retains the charm and quick, readable flow. I yearned for more and realized it was one of those novels you don't want to end. I believe this is a perfect summer read which will have you thirsting for another great book.

More books from Melissa Banks, please!!

I did not read her first book, the Girls' Guide To Hunting and Fishing. After reading The Wonder Spot (in one day because I couldn't put it down), I have ordered the first book, and I hope that there will be many more books by this wonderful author. She is a breath of fresh air from lots of other contemporary female authors! Thanks, Melissa.

when book deals go bad

Reading this, I got the feeling that Banks was offered a book deal after the success of Girls Guide. When the deadline was approaching, she pulled out scrapped chapters and revamped them to fit another story. I was totally disapointed and only read to the end hoping for the kind of soul affirming, tell all my single friends moment I experienced in Girls Guide. If Banks was not a published author with a previously successful book, this would have never been published.

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