The Ex-Files is not precisely Jane Austen, but you still get a smart, wry and uncertain heroine in Fay Parker, a high-profile model, who's ready (or so she thinks) to marry sweet chef Mark Hawkins. The couple harmoniously decides, in an exceedingly work of magnanimity, to invite their most up-to-date - and serious -- exes.
For Faye, this includes a form, but ultimately dull boy-from-home and a narcissistic celebrity. Mark's featured "ex" is Kate, with whom he had an extended - and primarily happy - relationship.
The catalyst (and after all, there is one) for Faye's sudden cold feet could be a near one-night stand with a bloke she meets whereas out. Their chemistry is electric and Faye considers what has led her to this point.
UK journalist and best-selling author Moore offers up an bold tale. Moore's lead, unlike many in the genre is way from the everywoman who represents the book's meant audience. Rather than a lovelorn, weight-acutely aware, awkward put-upon lead, Moore offers us a standard supermodel, confident and carefree. And Moore is almost successful in obtaining her reader behind Faye and her dilemma.
The Ex-Files reads nearly sort of a sequel - sort of a book that challenges its additional typical predecessor. It is as if someone proposed the concept to Moore - "why not examine, in a very 'fresh and new' means - another to the happily-ever-after.
And for this novel, it offers this: which means, Mark's and Faye's pre Ex-Files story is traditional: meet cute, opposites attract - with the icing on the cake: an engagement. The premise of The Ex-Files should work, because as everyone is aware of, there is virtually continuously a caveat to the happy ending. However Moore eventually becomes burdened by characters that do not ring true. She tells the reader rather than shows them - a mistake a seasoned writer like Moore ought to avoid. In brief, because she does not have empathy for Faye and Mark, why should the reader?
Moore conjointly tackles what extremely seems to be a film and television conceit - and one that's pretty much never happens in point of fact: the caricatured wedding ceremony. In real life, most weddings are known as off before the guests arrive at church, not like in The Graduate, not like in Four Weddings and a Funeral, not like Image Excellent, not like Sweet Home Alabama. Basically, not like every marriage ceremony in fiction.
That said, there's enough within the premise, enough in the primary chapter (which options Faye's pseudo indiscretion) to just about give a reader familiar with the genre more than a hint of what will happen. Still, despite the predictability, the ambitiousness of the premise (because it challenges reality), it is a quick and fun read - good for the plane ride, the beach or while watching for your flip at the DMV.
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