AFTERNOON, all. It's evening time here in Dublin and the day has been dark and drizzly. So, I decided to cheer myself up by posting this review in full. It appeared over the weekend on author Jennifer Young's blog (if you look back, you'll see that I posted the link yesterday).
Here is the full post from Jennifer's blog:
Thinking about books: Going Against Type

Sorry, I’m a bit niggly in the wake of my worst-ever review, marked down (heavily) for a couple of things I did deliberately in book 1 to allow for plot development in book 2. Writing’s a long road and bad reviews are the potholes in it. In fairness the criticism was constructive so I won’t complain. You live and learn.
After that, I needed a laugh and I found it in Sharon Black’s Going Against Type. It’s clever, it’s witty and it’s beautifully written. Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Regan is a sports reporter, sole woman in an office full of men. Derry Cullinane is a fashion journalist, sole man in an office full of women. Skilfully set up to begin with, the pace escalates as their relationship develops in real life while, professionally, they engage in a raging weekly row through their (anonymous) columns in their respective newspapers.

I had a couple of niggles, because no book is perfect. I thought there were too many minor characters flitting in and out, most of them not actually moving the plot on at all; and I’m not entirely sure the dilemma between their personal relationship and professional vendetta was satisfactorily resolved, but maybe that’s because I was so keen to find out what happened that I read on long after I was too tired to concentrate.
If I gave stars I would have given this five, so Sharon Black can be quietly annoyed with me for cheating her of that, though I suspect (I haven’t checked) that she’ll have plenty of 5* reviews already. Lucky her.
You can find Going Against Type on the Tirgearr Publishing website. You can also find A Portrait of my Love there, to see if you really think it deserves just 2.5 stars.
Bitter? Moi? Never.
Sorry I'm only discovering all this today. But if this is what happens when I take a day away from social media, I'll have to do it more often!!
Thank you so much for reviewing Going Against Type. I found your review interesting and insightful.
And I'm really looking forward to seeing what you review next.
I've posted the link on my own blog today (This Funny Irish Life).
Happy Sunday. x
Thanks again for reviewing, Jennifer. You'll find Jennifer's books at Tirgearr Publishing and all e-book stores.
Have a good week, everyone.
Sharon. xx