Undead and Unreturnable is the fourth Betsy Taylor book, the chronicles of a shoe-obsessed secretary who gets hit by a car and wakes up as undead Queen of the Vampires. This would obviously freak out most people, and Betsy’s (mis)adventures as she tries to cope with drinking blood and sleeping all day and her new…
In some ways the Chick Lit genre allows for more leeway in what is, often, a romantic story. For instance, romance readers who crave heroines more aggressive or more sexually experienced than Romance’s ubiquitous small town misses can often find them in Chick Lit. Nice Girls Finish First has this type of heroine, the kind…
The premise of this book is smart: instead of chasing after Mr. Right with increasing desperation, the heroine decides that maybe she should try to avoid Mr. Wrong. She even goes to therapy, something many a Chick Lit heroine ought to consider. However, the range and depth of the reasons Why Not only serve to…
Samantha Sweeting is a brilliant top City lawyer, one of the finest legal minds of her generation, and she’s been sweating away at Carter Spink for seven years trying to make partner. She’s just on the cusp of that achievement, too, when she makes an enormous error which costs her firm’s client 50 million pounds….
If you enjoyed Emily Giffin’s 2004 debut novel, Something Borrowed about two girlfriends who betray each other’s friendships, you will be curious to see what happens in Giffin’s follow-up novel, Something Blue. This is the Bad Girl’s story, the one in which she gets her much deserved comeuppance…or does she? Darcy Rhone is the high…
A few months ago I read Queen Bees & Wannabes, Rosalind Wiseman’s nonfiction book about cliques and the subtleties of teenage girls’ relationships. I was particularly struck by her observation that girls’ friendships with other girls are very frequently as intense, as emotionally complex and important as those they will later have with their boyfriends…
Scarlett Jane Stein is a 39 year old woman who sometimes feels that she has skated through life. She has a pretty-good job as a librarian, and easily gets dates with attractive men. But when she has a bout with chicken pox, a pushy friend encourages her to try an experiment: Will men still like…
One knock against Chick Lit is that the heroines, generally speaking, are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. They know their Prada from their Kate Spade, have explored every dead-end job publishing has to offer, and can identify any brand of designer vodka just by sniffing the bottle cap, but MENSA does not have…
Whew! After reading Ms. Davidson’s last book, Derik’s Bane, I’d begun to worry a little bit. Though she has a proven track record of writing clever dialogue and sharp characters, I was beginning to overdose a little on those very things. In her third novel featuring Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor, the sharp writing is present…
I never to say never, but Chick Lit often doesn’t do it for me. I’m not a huge fan of Women’s Fiction set in big cities, so was ambivalent about reading and reviewing The Frog Prince. But the title and premise convinced me to give it a try. Meet Holly Bishop. She fell in love…
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