Posted on March 18th, 2010 by Leah
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!
This week’s Chick Lit Classic is the outstanding Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin. I was blown away when I read the book, made even better when I realised I’d accidentally read Something Blue before Something Borrowed! This is one of the true classics of the genre and the way in which Emily Giffin manages to make Rachel likeable is outstanding - after all, she’s sleeping with her best friend’s boyfriend!
Rachel Miller and Darcy Rhone have been best friends since childhood. They’ve shared birthdays, the horrors of high school and even boyfriends, but while Darcy is the sort of woman who breezes through life getting what she wants when she wants it, Rachel has always played by the rules and watched her stunning best friend steal the limelight. The one thing Rachel’s always had over Darcy is the four-month age-gap which meant she was first to being a teenager, first to drive, first to everything …but now she’s about to be first to thirty. And Darcy still has a charmed life. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Rachel is shocked to find herself questioning the status quo. How come Darcy gets a glamorous job at a PR firm and the perfect boyfriend, while Rachel grinds away at her despised job as an attorney and remains painfully single. Is it just luck? Or, looking back at their friendship and their lives together, is it a bit more complicated than that? Then an accidental fling complicated everything, and it’s time for Rachel to make a few hard choices. And she’s forced to learn that sometimes true love comes at a price…
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Posted on March 17th, 2010 by Chloe
Top Tips for Life is a book compiled of tips taken from Toptips.com, a website created by author and journalist Kate Reardon to allow real women to share advice. The tips cover everything from raising toddlers and communicating with bolshy teenagers, to how to hula hoop properly and get rid of those awful burn marks on the bottom of your saucepan. If you’ve got a problem with your life, your home or your kids, then Top Tips might be the book for you.
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Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Leah
Chick Flick Tuesday highlights the best chick flicks in the movie world as well as bringing you news on upcoming chick flick releases as well as letting you all know about which chick lit books are being made into chick flick movies!
How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days is, quite possibly, one of the best Chick Flicks ever made and is the perfect choice for our first ever Chick Flick Tuesday pick. I’ve seen the movie multiple times and I still find myself laughing out loud in parts. I also think Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey have the best chemistry I’ve seen in a movie.
Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive co
mpeting with two female co-workers for a major campaign for a diamond merchant. He cuts a deal with his competitors that the account is his if he can make a woman of their choice fall in love with him in 10 days. In comes Andie Anderson who, in turn, is writing a story on how to lose a guy in 10 days as a bet with her boss to be allowed to write more substantial stories. With a hidden agenda in each camp, will either party be able to complete their mission?
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Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Leah
I really enjoyed Jane Beaton’s first two books in the Downey House series Class and Rules so I was thrilled when we were offered the chance of interviewing Jane. Here it is for your reading pleasure, enjoy!
1. Tell us about your second Downey House book Rules.
Rules is about Maggie Adair’s second year of teaching at Downey House boarding school- she’s come from a rough comprehensive school in Glasgow and has found the refined world of a girl’s boarding school a very steel learning curve. She has to decide whether to follow her head or her heart; to return to Glasgow to do her bit for deprived kids, and marry her childhood sweetheart Stan, or to stay in Cornwall and see if she has a chance of being with the quirky English teacher at the local boy’s school, David MacDonald.
We also meet the head teacher, Dr Deveral, four second year pupils at Plantagenet House- Simone, the scholarship girl; Fliss, the unhappy teen, Alice, who is full of confidence and mischief, and new girl Zelda, an American whose father is serving in the local army base. She stirs things up a bit!
2. What can you tell us about the third book in the series? Does it have a title yet?
The third book is called Lessons, the fourth Tests. I can’t say TOO much about them yet I’m afraid!
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by Leah
Hattie is a happy single mother to son Seffy, has a flourishing French antiques business with best friend Maggie and has a relatively young boyfriend, Ivan, to boot. But when her sister, Laura, asks Hattie and Maggie to help work on her and her husband Hugh’s house, it brings back painful memories for Hattie as that’s where her first love Dominic lived. Matters are made worse when Hattie bumps into his widow Letty and handsome brother Hal. Is Hattie finally able to spill the beans about what happened with Dominic all those years ago and, if so, is she able to keep her life as she knows it in tact?
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by Leah
When we first posted about Lucy Dawson’s third novel it was originally titled What Every Woman Wants and the main characters were called Kirsty and Joe. As the cover was released, you can see that the title is now The One That Got Away and as you can see from the synopsis below, the main characters have different names. The One That Got Away is due out on October 14th and I can’t wait after enjoying Lucy’s debut novel. I really like the cover, too, although it is different to her previous two! Here’s the synopsis:
Molly Greene is having trouble packing up her old life to embrace the new challenges and grown up adventures that are waiting in the wings for her and husband Dan. She loves him, but with life as she knows it about to change forever, she just can’t quite seem to make the final jump. Then, just as she’s teetering on the brink of the biggest decision of her life, she stupidly sends an impulsive message to the very last person she ought to have contacted, someone who should have stayed forgotten, and is now coming looking for her. And when he finds her, when old and new collide, there is no more turning back. One night is all it takes to threaten everything she holds dear - for good. Would you risk your future for a night with your past?
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Posted on March 12th, 2010 by Leah
Like most teenagers, Sam Kingston believes she’s going to live forever. However on a rainy February Friday night, driving home from a party, Sam and her friends Elody, Lindsay and Ally end up in a car crash. A car crash that kills Sam. Trouble is, she wakes up the next day and it’s that same Friday.
As Sam keeps repeating that fateful Friday, she begins to realise that although she may not be able to save herself, she may well be able to save someone. The question is, will she be able to untangle all of the mysteries surrounding her death before her week is up?
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Posted on March 12th, 2010 by Chloe
The Melville sisters might have money but does it always lead to happiness? Eldest daughter Elizabeth is determined to succeed in her family’s business, despite the fact her father and owner William Melville doesn’t seem to be very supportive of her plans. Elizabeth isn’t about to back down but is she one to work behind the scenes without the glory? Amber isn’t blessed with the business brains of her sister, but has the looks to carry her through. Amber doesn’t have any plans to work for the family company but she’s decided that modelling is the career for her. She moves to LA without her family’s blessing and meets up with some bad boys and gets into things she knows she shouldn’t. Unfortunately for Amber, she doesn’t know a way out.
Finally, illegimate daughter Caitlin is still coming to terms with the death of her beloved mother when she’s sent to live with her father William and his family. Caitlin soon feels she doesn’t belong in the opulent world of the Melville’s and breaks free as soon as she can. She’s determined to make her own way in the world without using her family name, but is she going to get the success and recognition she’s always wanted? And what about the family too?
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