I bought this book for 50 cents at my library sale and decided to give it a go. I can't believe that I actually read it in full because it was cringing, although quite witty and well-written in parts. Possibly that's what kept me going , thinking that the protagonists would eventually wake up to the real world, or realise that not everyone cares about Pucci or Versace. It is possible that it was meant to be a satire of the vapid NY socialite scene, but sadly it doesn't come across as such, and no doubt that many readers will read it the way they read Hello! or New Idea. Plenty of much better chick-lit out there, don't bother with that one... ( )

This book for me was kind of hard to get into at first but after awhile I fell in love with some of the characters. ( )

Loved it! Total fluff, but utterly engaging and enjoyable. ( )

I didn't get the point of this book..... I really tried to like it, and I kept reading until it was painful, but the book was not funny, the characters were shallow, and I just couldn't relate.

Let's see: there is this gal who's in some ubër-expensive Mexican resort on her honeymoon, however, her husband has left her @ the airport on business. She meets up with these two young empty-headed, glob-trotting, super-rich, divorced women. They spend their time talking about the things I imagine super-rich globe-trotting women do, drinking alcohol filled tropical libations, lounge around sunning, gossiping, cruising on the water & wearing marvelously expensive designer clothing.....and talking about their marriages/divorces.

I didn't like the characters, I didn't feel any thing in common with them, I didn't empathize with them....empty women with too much time & money on their hands......

I missed out completely.......

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This book was in the bag of books that a friend loaned me to read. I read the back cover synopsis and anticipated that this title wouldn't be the favorite but I didn't realize I wouldn't even be able to read more than a few pages and with each additional sentence just wanted to stop reading. So I finished Chapter 1 but I'm done. I'm not interested in watching The Housewives of wherever...from Beverly Hills to New Jersey to Orange County to Atlanta. I don't care. And that's my attitude about this writing - I just don't care. I don't care enough to want to finish reading it. There are too many wonderful books on my wish list yet to read. Lots of luck if you want to try getting through it. Lots of luck!
The author was educated at Oxford, is a contributing editor at Vogue and has written for Vanity Fair. Perhaps her other writing is interesting. I can't find anything of interest within the pages of this book. ( )