Beaches by Iris Rainer Dart.

So, I am a huge fan of the movie and I've wanted to read this for a long time to see what it compared to the film - I had quite high expectations considering the movie was so good and it was one of my favourite films. But let's just say I was very disappointed. This was nothing like the movie, it didn't have their friendship to it's full glory and they barely saw one another in the actual book. I will admit that I did not end up finishing this because I got to page 150 and just couldn't carry on because I wasn't enjoying it and I know people will be like 'you should persevere and carry on' but you know when you get them books that you just can't finish reading because you're just not enjoying them? Well it was like that. So lets get down to some of the details and why I disliked it.

• The friendship.

Well for starters it isn't portrayed to the way it is in the film and yes I know the book came first and whatnot, but still they don't seem as close as they do in her book, and yet they're not! For one Bertie (or Whitney as she is known in the film) believes that her best friend would have an affair with her husband, I mean if you truly trusted your friend you'd know she wouldn't do anything like that - whereas in the film they fell out over Whitney saying she doesn't seem mother material. I don't know I just didn't think they where as close as they could of been and ugh - it aggravated me.

• Her mum was dead and not her father.

In the film its her mother who was dead and her father was alive and in the book it was the other way around, now to be honest I don't get why they did this in the film because it would of been just as easy if they had of left it the way it was in the book, but they complicated it - slightly. But then the mother ends up getting sick the same way the dad does in the film and she dies, the same way the dad does, so why not just keep it as it was in the book, I don't get it.

That was most of what annoyed me, there were other little bits like how bloody annoying Bertie's husband was saying how annoying Cee Cee was and that she should give up on their friendship and how she thinks she has a big gob and stuff. I don't know I think if I hadn't already seen the film, I would of probably enjoyed the book a lot more - but because of that fact, I didn't like it one bit. By all means if you'd rather read the book and then watch the film go for it, but it just wasn't for me.

I rate this 2 out of 5 stars.

Front cover of the book.