Official Review: Julie & Kishore by Carol Jackson
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Official Review: Julie & Kishore by Carol Jackson
[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Julie & Kishore" by Carol Jackson.]
2 out of 4 stars
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I'll start off by saying that I rate this book a 2 out of 4. I feel that this is a generous rating, as there isn't much in the way of plot, but I did enjoy the details surrounding the Indian culture.
This story is a sequel, though I didn't feel as though I needed to read the first installment to grasp the storyline. It's a basic romance with the guise of being a tale of inter-racial love. The story is a first-person narrative, told from the point of view of the girl, Julie. While she and her husband are an interracial couple the only conflict in their relationship seems to be the narrators own insecurities.
The story beings with the narrator and her new husband returning from a trip to Kishore's homeland of India, where they were married in with only his family and friends present. There is a few lines of worry about what her family will say, but it's almost immediately reveled that they have no issues with the relationship what so ever. Julie's parents invite the couple to live with them while saving for an English wedding and home. Julie rambles for a bit about how she was born to be a vet nurse, but hadn't yet achieved that dream. Eventually (and I do mean eventually, because while this story is quite short, it makes some rather large time leaps), Kishore is made a offer at his work that he cannot turn down, though it derails the English wedding plans. No worries since they are already married, Julie decides to go along with Kishore's unexpected business trip. Then literally nothing happens. Oh wait, a dog we didn't even know existed, died. That's about it.
The time jumps bothered me the most. Time passed too quickly with little or no interactions and I didn't love either of the characters. Julie was bland and I feel that a story told from Kishore's point of view may have been a little more colorful. As stated above, the references to Indian culture was interesting, and even details regarding the English wedding were enticing, but it wasn't enough to keep me interested.
Essentially, this storyline has potential. Since it's advertised as an interracial love story, I'd like to see some conflict and resolution happening with that. Julie could have had a hard time adjusting to Indian culture, or Kishore could have hated everything about the English wedding. ANYTHING to make something happen and push the plot along.
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2 out of 4 stars
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I'll start off by saying that I rate this book a 2 out of 4. I feel that this is a generous rating, as there isn't much in the way of plot, but I did enjoy the details surrounding the Indian culture.
This story is a sequel, though I didn't feel as though I needed to read the first installment to grasp the storyline. It's a basic romance with the guise of being a tale of inter-racial love. The story is a first-person narrative, told from the point of view of the girl, Julie. While she and her husband are an interracial couple the only conflict in their relationship seems to be the narrators own insecurities.
The story beings with the narrator and her new husband returning from a trip to Kishore's homeland of India, where they were married in with only his family and friends present. There is a few lines of worry about what her family will say, but it's almost immediately reveled that they have no issues with the relationship what so ever. Julie's parents invite the couple to live with them while saving for an English wedding and home. Julie rambles for a bit about how she was born to be a vet nurse, but hadn't yet achieved that dream. Eventually (and I do mean eventually, because while this story is quite short, it makes some rather large time leaps), Kishore is made a offer at his work that he cannot turn down, though it derails the English wedding plans. No worries since they are already married, Julie decides to go along with Kishore's unexpected business trip. Then literally nothing happens. Oh wait, a dog we didn't even know existed, died. That's about it.
The time jumps bothered me the most. Time passed too quickly with little or no interactions and I didn't love either of the characters. Julie was bland and I feel that a story told from Kishore's point of view may have been a little more colorful. As stated above, the references to Indian culture was interesting, and even details regarding the English wedding were enticing, but it wasn't enough to keep me interested.
Essentially, this storyline has potential. Since it's advertised as an interracial love story, I'd like to see some conflict and resolution happening with that. Julie could have had a hard time adjusting to Indian culture, or Kishore could have hated everything about the English wedding. ANYTHING to make something happen and push the plot along.
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Julie & Kishore
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