Stacey Lender

I found this one really quite awful. It’s not the worst I’ve read, but it comes close. The main character is completely unlikeable, and the book reads more like a bad “reality tv” script than anything else. Everything about living in suburbia is exaggerated to the point that I wonder if the author herself has ever actually lived in a suburban setting. At least where I’m from, most suburbanites don’t have a several-thousand dollar outdoor kitchen setup, interior decorators at their beck and call, and alcohol-fueled PTA fundraisers. It’s so unrealistic that it’s almost funny. The book is all about keeping up with the Jones’ when everything is just smoke and mirrors, but there’s no real depth to any of the characters and the overall plot is week. Would not recommend.… (lisätietoja)

Completely predictable with a sanctimonious ending, City Mouse is essentially Mean Girls gone Mom.

Jessica and family move to wealthy Suffern from NY City in order to purchase a McMansion for their family. Nearly every peer she meets there is a terrible person, or married to a terrible person and as they inflict their terribleness onto Jessica she finds herself losing who she really is in order to fit in.

It's a quick read and if you don't care about being able to predict nearly everything that happens then you will enjoy this.… (lisätietoja)