A Chick Lit mystery could borrow from the best of both worlds and really have something going. Sharp wit, off-the-wall adventures, and a tight mystery – what’s not to like? Sadly, this type of hybrid could also go awry and saddle the reader with a TSTL heroine and so much zaniness that by the time…
With a keen sense of detail and a cast of vivid personalities, Cathy Yardley’s Couch World offers a fascinating glimpse into San Francisco’s club scene. The book details the lives of three very different women. The title refers to the life of P.J., a San Francisco DJ with no permanent home. She spends every night…
Irish writer Sheila O’Flanagan’s Too Good To Be True serves up mixed results. Although the writing itself seemed rather dull at times, I have to admit that the characters and their many problems eventually pulled me into the story. Even though Carey Browne is known for her impetuous nature, her friends are stunned when she…
The lesson of this book is clearly, “Pay for your own wedding, even if you can only afford to walk to City Hall.” There are five married or about to be married women in this book, and the only one who doesn’t develop a Tums addiction is the one who just goes down to the…
It’s Not You It’s Me is a road romance and a reunion story between people who used to be best friends. If any of those scenarios press your buttons, you might want to pick this one up. Charlotte “Charlie” Notting has had a rough couple of years. One day, out of the blue she gets…
In her debut novel, Jennifer Sturman takes two popular genres – Chick Lit and Romantic Suspense – and combines them into a Sex and the City style mystery. While this idea certainly holds intrigue, the plotting is simply not tight enough for this story to completely succeed. Narrator Rachel Benjamin is a New York investment…
Girls’ Night In is a collection of short stories to benefit War Child, a relief agency aiding children in war-torn areas. Some of the biggest names in chick-lit have contributed stories, and although not every one was my style, a pretty respectable number were. Since there are twenty-one stories and the book is only 325…
It’s official! Dead Sexy is Dead Funny. Initially I was a little leery of this Brit Chick Lit novel, which sat in my TBR pile for a while giving me the evil eye and throwing off postmodern feminist vibes. I was pleasantly surprised by how laugh-out-loud funny it is, and how intelligently and sensitively it…
I used to work in a sawmill that made components for musical instruments. I was a grader in the guitar-top program – that means I spent all day, every day, sorting bookmatched pieces of spruce that would be used to make soundboards. Because of this, I know a lot about what makes a good acoustic…
Babe in Toyland is rather more low key Chick Lit than I’m used to. It features a heroine who is easy to relate to, but it’s not a very exciting read. Toby Morris has an unusual job working at Toyland, a large toy company. She designs the directions and models that come boxed with the…
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