Bill Rancic

A book about a plane crash is not a dramatic story about survival. A book about survivors is not really about dealing with the emotions of being the one to survive. A book categorized as a romance is not really romantic. Regardless of what it is not, First Light by Bill Rancic does keep me reading with his visual writing. The descriptions are the memorable part of this book much more so than the characters or the story.

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Reviewed for the Penguin First to Read program. show less

I read this because I stumbled upon it at the library and back in the day, before I hated all things Apprentice, I actually watched season 1 and was happy that Bill won so I figured I'd read his novel.

It's pretty terrible. 100% predictable and repetitive. There is literally not one plot point that you can't see coming a million miles away. One central point is one of my biggest pet peeves in romance novels (Phil is head over heels in love with a woman he never interacts with. He loves her show more because she's attractive, I guess, despite not being over his dead wife. I can't stand it when men love women for absolutely no reason other than their red hair.) so the book loses points for that. Still, I give it two stars since I did read the whole thing and as a mindless way to pass the time by the pool or on the beach it was....fine. show less

I was, admittedly, slightly horrified to see WHO the author was but it turned out that I really did like the author, way back when, and this novel was quite good---I would love to know how he made the frozen Yukon descriptions so believable....and very readable in the what's-going-to-happen next aspect. I'm surprised that the author picture on the back of the book does not look anything like the picture of him that I recognized...on the web.

I think this book is best for people who got married after a brief dating period, since so much of the stuff they talk about is pretty basic. That being said, I guess it doesn't hurt to refresh basics once in awhile. What I enjoyed most about this book was all their personal stories - they were basically just celebrity relationship gossip, and everyone knows celeb gossip is my weakness!