Archive for November 18th, 2010

Chick Lit Classics is a new 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!

Whilst Jodi Picoult isn’t exactly Chick Lit, I do enjoy reading her novels and I know a lot of Chick Lit fans do, too. The first book I read of Jodi’s was My Sister’s Keeper and I thought it was a stunning novel. It moved me to tears and the revelations at the end literally made me gasp! It’s definitely a must read for all fiction fans, because it’s a book that definitely stands the test of time. My Sister’s Keeper was also turned into a movie, starring Cameron Diaz, and is well worth watching. I’ll tell you why when I do a Chick Flick post for it! It’s safe to say it had me in tears!

‘A major decision about me is being made, and no one’s bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion.’ The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to her older sister. And though Anna is not sick, she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukaemia that has plagued her since she was a child. Anna was born for this purpose, her parents tell her, which is why they love her even more. But now that she has reached an age of physical awareness, she can’t help but long for control over her own body and respite from the constant flow of her own blood seeping into her sister’s veins. And so she makes a decision that for most would be too difficult to bear, at any time and at any age. She decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.

I’ve really enjoyed Lulu Taylor’s previous 2 novels, so I’m very much looking forward to her third, Beautiful Creatures! It’s due out on 20th January 2011, and I think the red and pink cover is very eye-catching and pretty! Her books are always great escapist novels, so I can’t wait for this! Here’s the synopsis:

“Everyone has heard of the Beaufort twins, but few have ever seen them… On the eve of their 21st birthday, at one of the most lavish parties society has ever seen, Octavia and Flora Beaufort are launched into the world. For Octavia, it is one of the most thrilling nights of her life, an evening glittering with the promise of her future. But Flora shrinks from the limelight, fearful of what lies beyond the walls of her over-protective aunt’s house. As Octavia is swept into a whirlwind of lavish spending and fashionable society, she grasps eagerly at whatever she wants: clothes, houses, men… even a department store. But Flora yearns for security – and when she is rescued from harm by a kind stranger, she seems to have found the love and protection she craves. Prey to all kinds of dangers, the twins soon realise that without each other, they run the risk of losing everything. But is it already too late…?”