Archive for August 5th, 2010

Chick Lit Classics is a regular feature on Chick Lit Reviews where we highlight the books we feel are classics of the chick lit genre. Feel free to discuss our choices in the comments section!

This week I’ve chosen Asking For Trouble by Liz Young (or Elizabeth Young) as our Classic pick. I read this absolutely ages ago but I really loved it. It has a hilarious plot (hiring an escort for a wedding because you lied to your family about a boyfriend?), it was made into a movie (The Wedding Date, although I didn’t like it at all), and it was such a fun read. It’s kind of sad that Liz appears to not be writing books any more as I’ve read two of them and both were fab. If you haven’t read Asking For Trouble, I recommend you do as it’s so good and deserves it’s place in our Chick Lit Classics posts!

Sophy’s single and happy about it. She does, however, have an imaginary boyfriend, Dominic, a little white lie designed to keep Sophy’s mother off her back. Which is fine, until his presence is demanded at a family wedding. So does Sophy admit Dominic is a fantasy? Oh no. Sophy hires an escort. But when the distinctly delicious Josh Carmichael arrives on her doorstep, Sophy can tell things are going to get tricky. And the wedding is only the beginning…

Emma is devastated at the sudden death of her husband Paul, but is overjoyed when she discovers he had booked a holiday to Cuba for them before he died. Emma decided to go anyway, and wants to take her youngest sister Sophie… without realising that it was Sophie that Paul was intending to take all along. Sophie knows she has betrayed her sister in the worst, but has to go on the holiday to keep up her secret.

Their middle sister Louise knows Sophie’s secret and is worried about it coming out while her sisters holiday in Cuba. But Louise has her own problems to deal with. Her marriage to Donal is in trouble because she feels like it is going nowhere, and when her previous lover Jack Durran comes back into Louise’s life unexpectedly, she’s faced with a decision she never thought she’d have to make. Will Louise choose pastures new or stick with the life she knows?

And how exactly with one kiss in Havana change Emma’s life forever?

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Whether you’re a fan of Katie Price or not, you can’t get away from her at the moment and that includes in the bookshops too. Her new book Paradise was released last week complete with lavish launch by the lady herself, but the end of July saw the release of the paperback of her last book Sapphire. What caught my eye though was the cover redesign the publishers have given this compared to all her previous releases. I do love the original red and yellow of the hardback (right) but the paperback seems a little more sophisticated and Katie’s name is a tad smaller as well which I think is a good thing!

Which version of the cover do you prefer?