chick lit

Pretty cover, but that’s all this book has going for it

Killing Monica by Candace Bushnell

July 21, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

Well, this was one of those books that is like junk food – you know it’s bad for you and yet you keep eating, or in this case reading. It’s the story of Pandy Wallis, an author of a successful series of books about a beautiful woman named Monica. Pandy is tired of writing about Monica and has written a new book, based on one of her ancestors – however her agent doesn’t think the book will sell. The book starts off with a party to celebrate Pandy’s divorce, but the timeline bounces back and forth a lot between the […]

7/21/2017 Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:60 |

Another great book by Liane Moriarty

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

May 22, 2017 by Lindzgrl Leave a Comment

It’s clear that the target reader for Liane Moriarty’s books is primarily female and, most likely, a parent and married woman. So I’m not sure why I gravitate to her books so much—I am female, but I am neither a parent nor married—but damn if I do love her stuff. When I start one of her books I am pulled in immediately and swept along the entire story. She does a fairly brilliant job of drawing up fun, interesting and complex characters, and keeping the general mystery that drives the plot humming along straight through until the very end (I […]

5/22/2017 Lindzgrl's CBR9 Review No:12 |

I Regret Reading This Author Back to Back

Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger

March 17, 2017 by caragwapa 3 Comments

Having enjoyed Last Night at Chateau marmont and finding The Singles Game, ok, if a little meh, I decided to read another Weisberger book. Well, not so much decided as saw that it was the next book in my unread books dropbox folder. Did I regret my lazy choice? Yes. Yes I did. Emmy, Leigh and Adriana have been best friends since college and have maintained the so-called BFF status even as they approach their 30s. The girls are of course, so different from each other but are utter stereotypes. And not pleasant ones either. Emmy is the “desperate” one […]

3/17/2017 caragwapa's CBR9 Review No:2 |

They Could Break the Ice by Talking About What He Liked in Bed???

Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand

March 8, 2017 by Melina 2 Comments

Deacon Thorpe, the first celebrity television bad boy chef is dead. Surviving him is his first wife Laurel (a social worker) and their son Hayes…and his second wife (Oscar winning movie star) Belinda and their adopted daughter Angie…oh and his third wife Scarlett (failed photographer and successful anorexic) and their young daughter (a little girl whose name I can’t remember). His last request is that all three women and all of his children gather together in their summer home American Dream on Nantucket to spread his ashes. There, they will find out that each woman has inherited 1/3 of the […]

3/8/2017 Melina's CBR9 Review No:12 |

Everyone Loves Gossip…Until It’s About Them #truth

The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand

March 3, 2017 by Melina 4 Comments

Set on the idyllic Nantucket island, The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand follows two best friends Madeline and Grace and their families. From afar, their friendship, their children, their husbands and their talents (Madeline is an author and Grace is a gardener/cook/homemaker extraordinaire) are completely enviable by all around them. However, Madeline is having difficulty starting her new book, the advance is already spent and yet she’s completely blocked. Luckily, she has a wonderful supportive husband who agrees with her that getting a “room of one’s own” may be just the thing for her to focus. When she rents a small […]

3/3/2017 Melina's CBR9 Review No:12 |

Chick Lit + Sadness = Really Works

Three Amazing Things About You by Jill Mansell

February 21, 2017 by Classic 2 Comments

Well this is the first Mansell book I have loved. I think the reason why though is that we follow three separate couples/groups and then we get to see how in the world they all connect up with each other at the end. I maybe cried a bit too when I got to certain parts. I will say that I didn’t buy the character of Flo getting along with her boyfriend’s sister towards the end of the book. She (Lena) I found to be terrible. I don’t know if I could have been so forgiving due to an accident that […]

2/21/2017 Classic's CBR9 Review No:61 |

Faux Big Chill

In Twenty Years by Allison Winn Scotch

February 17, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

I dithered about this book for a while. There was something bugging me about it and then I realized. I pretty much called every single one of the endings for the characters. I didn’t really like the character (Lindy) who was bisexual being portrayed as “slutty” and the poor girl/woman (Annie) who sat around harboring same lame crush on a guy (Colin) that didn’t want her. I was more interested in the married couple (Catherine and Owen) but even after a while I tired of them. I think this book was a mash up of The Big Chill and I […]

2/17/2017 Classic's CBR9 Review No:58 |

A Film Noir State of Mind

My Life in Black and White by Kim Izzo

February 15, 2017 by Mikki Blu 2 Comments

As per the book blurb: When Clara Bishop, a struggling screenwriter-turned-tabloid journalist in Hollywood, is jilted by her philandering husband, she follows him to London, determined to win him back. Armed with only a glamorous wardrobe of vintage clothing inherited from her grandmother, a former film noir actress, Clara discovers that the clothes really do make the woman. Dressed to kill, she adopts a new femme fatale persona: confident, sexy and set on revenge. This was a different sort of book that required a suspension of belief for most of it. At the start of it, Clara is living an […]

2/15/2017 Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:13 |

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