Maneater, Gigi Levangie Grazer
Book: 16
Title: Maneater
Author: Gigi Levangie Grazer
Genre: Chick lit
One-sentence summary: Well, it starts out with the protagonist busying herself with making plans for her wedding to a man whom she has technically never spoken to, but whose face and reported net worth she is intimately familiar with. And it kinda goes from there.
Why did you get this book? Here are the first two sentences: "My God, the wedding was beautiful. So what if the bride with the translucent skin and white-gold hair (courtesy of the ex-gay-porn-star hairdresser with the pregnant Amazonian wife) had fucked every one of the groomsmen at one point or another in her short life."
Do you like the cover? Whatever. I think it was taken from the same series of photos that spawned the covers of the Gossip Girl series.
Did you enjoy the book? Okay, so, you know, chick lit is not normally my thing, but this writer is *hilarious*. There's a hard, bitchy edge to this book that you rarely find in a book with a hot pink cover. The plot actually takes a few twists I wasn't expecting, too. This would have been a delicious book to read floating in the pool in midsummer with a drink close to hand, but even curled up in bed in the dead of winter, it was highly entertaining.
Was the author new to you and would you read something by this author again? Yes, she was, but I've looked at her other stuff and none of it's been as well reviewed as this, nor has any of it interested me much. I think she periodically writes bitchy little essays for magazines, though. I'll be keeping an eye out for her byline.
Are you keeping it or passing it on? Keeping.
Scale of 1 to 10: 8
Anything else? Not really, except that if you like smart chick lit, you definitely should give this book a read.
Number of pages: 368
Total pages for the year: 5056
Title: Maneater
Author: Gigi Levangie Grazer
Genre: Chick lit
One-sentence summary: Well, it starts out with the protagonist busying herself with making plans for her wedding to a man whom she has technically never spoken to, but whose face and reported net worth she is intimately familiar with. And it kinda goes from there.
Why did you get this book? Here are the first two sentences: "My God, the wedding was beautiful. So what if the bride with the translucent skin and white-gold hair (courtesy of the ex-gay-porn-star hairdresser with the pregnant Amazonian wife) had fucked every one of the groomsmen at one point or another in her short life."
Do you like the cover? Whatever. I think it was taken from the same series of photos that spawned the covers of the Gossip Girl series.
Did you enjoy the book? Okay, so, you know, chick lit is not normally my thing, but this writer is *hilarious*. There's a hard, bitchy edge to this book that you rarely find in a book with a hot pink cover. The plot actually takes a few twists I wasn't expecting, too. This would have been a delicious book to read floating in the pool in midsummer with a drink close to hand, but even curled up in bed in the dead of winter, it was highly entertaining.
Was the author new to you and would you read something by this author again? Yes, she was, but I've looked at her other stuff and none of it's been as well reviewed as this, nor has any of it interested me much. I think she periodically writes bitchy little essays for magazines, though. I'll be keeping an eye out for her byline.
Are you keeping it or passing it on? Keeping.
Scale of 1 to 10: 8
Anything else? Not really, except that if you like smart chick lit, you definitely should give this book a read.
Number of pages: 368
Total pages for the year: 5056
