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Summary: Best Beach Book Of The Summer
Review: The Botox Diaries is a fabulous book about two women in their forties, Jess and Lucy, which is breezy, fun and more. Lucy goes through a mid-life crisis and ends up in an affair with a famous TV star -whose name I just loved!- Hunter Green. Jess' French ex-husband, Jacques, has come back to New York and is chasing her again. The plot is fast paced and funny and you really end up caring about Jess and Lucy and their friendship. This is a fabulous book which is perfect for all of us who loved "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Sex and the City". LOVED IT.
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Summary: Up and Down and All Around...2.5 Stars
Review: The Botox Diaries sets out to be chick lit for the mature women and ends up reading like you're a mouse in a maze and just wish you could find the cheese. I SO wanted to love this book but ended up just thinking it was ok. The storyline jumped around too much for my taste. I like sarcasm and dry wit as much as the next person but the authors laid it on too thick, it was like reading a nonstop Seinfeld episode. You also have to really pay attention to the qotation marks because you don't know if Jess is speaking to someone or just having the sarcastic conversations in her head.
After all that said there are some genuinely good and funny parts in the book but most of it is forced. The authors prove that's two heads aren't always better than one. If this book would have toned down on all the sarcasm and kept a steady story line it could have been great. I say borrow this book from the library and save your money.
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Summary: A disappointing beach read
Review: The reviews on this one seem to be quite polarized. Of course, I notice many of the 5-star reviews seem to be from the 'professional' reviewers...
I was very disappointed in this book. The pace was so un-even and the character development was thin at best. I really wanted to like it, but I felt it was more of an exercise in Westchester brand-name dropping than good fiction. Maybe it's just me but I don't enjoy reading about any character who doesn't have the moral fiber to stand up to a friend who is destroying her life for no good reason. Aren't we supposed to glean something from our pleasure reading? The only thing I got from this book was a non-stop ride through cliche-town.
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Summary: slow start
Review: This book was a slow start, but really got going. It was very well written. Very entertaining.
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Summary: Dom Perignon, Botox and a Lotta Laughs
Review: This is a light hearted and wonderful novel that focuses on two forty-something women in suburban New York. Lucy Baldor and Jess Taylor are best friends and complete opposites. Lucy is married to a great man, has a glamorous job as a television producer, and has a television game show host boyfriend on the side.
Jess on the other hand has been divorced for ten years, has a pre-teen daughter, Lily, and has realized that her love life is nearly non-existent. In fact, her love life has become so pathetic that Lily has entered her in a contest out of Cosmo Magazine to win a date with a famous surfer. Has it really come to this?
As Jess tries to understand how Lucy can tempt fate by cheating on her husband, Lucy goes into full mid-life crisis mode. Before you know it, we delve into the world of botox, breast enlargement consultations, and buying outrageous amounts of jewelry and expensive lingerie in order to keep men interested.
I absolutely loved every minute of this book. In fact, I have already loaned it out to a few friends who have raved about it as well. It is a fun and witty story that will definitely make you chuckle out loud.
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Summary: Wrinkle-Free and Thoroughly Enjoyable
Review: With the current flood of Chick Lit books filling the bookstores today, THE BOTOX DIARIES has found a way of riding in on the wave and yet setting itself apart from the pack. Instead of dealing with the sometimes cliché obstacles of being a 20-something woman living in the city, searching for love and a career, we have two 40-something women searching for meaning in their lives while battling the issue of age.Fans of Chick Lit novels can see what happens ten years later, when the character has become more established in her career and now has a husband, a child, or is divorced. Jessica Taylor, the central character in THE BOTOX DIARIES, has had all three. Jessica has been divorced for more than ten years from an extremely exotic French man who has recently resurfaced in her life. She is also the adoptive mother of a wonderfully precocious daughter, Jen, who is working as a matchmaker for her single mother. Through it all she has the eccentric and carefree best friend, Lucy Balder. Lucy has the perfect husband, the perfect children, the perfect career and the perfect lover. Jessica and Lucy are polar opposites, and that may be why they work so well as friends. While Jessica is a Target-shopping, Dove soap-using PTA mom, Lucy is the jet-setting TV producer with a standing appointment at her dermatologist for frequent Botox injections. Together they commiserate about the issues of aging, being a good parent, and finding time for passion in their lives. Lucy seems to have found passion, but not with her perfect husband. Instead she is cavorting with a hunky and charismatic television game show host, Hunter Green. Jessica is appalled by her friend's actions and is sympathetic towards the trusting and loving husband. What THE BOTOX DIARIES shows is that even as women age, their problems of how to handle love, life, relationships and careers remains constant. These women are the SUV-driving, blond-bobbed, wrinkle-free Manhattan women who most females tend to hate. However, Janice Kaplan and Lynn Schnurnberger have created very likable and very real characters, and readers will actually find themselves sympathizing with the life struggles of these women. This is a great novel by two women who prove that there is such a thing as real friendship. It is also a great summer book that allows the reader a glimpse into the lives of Manhattan's upper crust with frequent mentioning of Crème de la Mer, Gucci, Dom Perignon, and of course, Botox treatments. As the title of this novel would suggest, THE BOTOX DIARIES is wrinkle-free and thoroughly enjoyable. --- Reviewed by Jocelyn Maeve Kelley
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