Ever have a conversation with someone that you don't know that well and it's going OK and then they just drop some weird racist comment into the conversation? That's the reaction I had to this book.
Some things were fine, pleasant even. I like the flower shop setting, Marco is fun and I like Abby relationship with her roommate (and the cat is fun too) Abby's relationship with her cousin is also good and I liked the book when the plot was centered on those things or the wedding/bridal party.
But then there were the things that took me out of the story. Referring to people as "Oriental", the assumption that a group of Asian women were prostitutes by the end when characters are actually saying "prease" and "wong numbah" I actually checked the publication date. I'm used to that type of thing and can look past it in a book from an earlier time but this was written (or at least published) in 2005! I don't know, I guess other people aren't bothered by it but it really bugged me.
So I'm unsure about reading any others in the series. Like I said, the central part of it I did like and I don't remember any similar weirdness in the first book. I may get the next one from the library and see where it goes from there but for right now this left me with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.
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