Rating: 
Summary: "School" graduates
Review: The dictionary entry defines a finishing school as a girls' school that "stresses training in cultural subjects and social activities." Well, it isn't just for girls anymore. Eric Garcia gives us the wickedly funny evil twin of the chick-lit genre, in "Cassandra French's Finishing School For Girls."Cassandra French is your average modern L.A. woman -- she has two weird pals, a crazy mother under house arrest, a not-so-fulfilling job, and three gorgeous young men chained in the basement. Those three men are being remade and revamped at Cassandra's "finishing school," where she takes boorish, alcoholic gropers and turns them into sensitive, polite, woman-friendly, color-coordinated men. Then Cassandra meets hot actor Jason Kelly, who seduces her in an effort to sue the studio she works for. So Jason becomes the newest student at the Finishing School -- Cassandra doesn't plan to let the pretty-boy celebrity use women anymore. But things start to spin out of control when the enraged Jason manages to tangle himself up with chains and wires, and electrocutes himself. Now Cassandra has to dispose of the body, deflect suspicion, deal with the fiancee and unborn baby of one of the "boys," and keep her friends from blabbing about her secret school... It's a rare woman who hasn't met a jerk like the ones Cassandra has to deal with -- the sensitive, adorable Owen starts off as a drunken creep who doesn't understand the word "no." Okay, nobody could really approve of Cassandra's methods to revamp her slobs and jerks into gentlemen (except toward guys like Jason). But it's certainly funny to see her do it. For awhile, Garcia seems to be coasting plotwise -- Cassandra entangles herself with two men, scuppers a club, and teaches the boys. It's funny, but a little monotonous. But when Jason dies, things descend into a hilarious downward spiral. Cassandra's careful plans and regulations go completely out the window, and Garcia knows just how to milk the humor. Cassandra is a hilarious retake on the chick-lit heroine. She's just avoids being amoral, by considering her "teaching" to be a favor to women, men, and the world in general. There's also a likably kooky backup cast of the tormented Claire, the idiotic yoga teacher Lexi, Cassandra's nutzoid mother, and the likable young nightclub owner whom Cassandra definitely likes. Think a boot-camp "Bridget Jones," and you have "Cassandra French's Finishing School For Boys." Eric Garcia's best thus far, and a thoroughly entertaining read.
Rating:
Summary: "School" graduates
Review: The dictionary entry defines a finishing school as a girls' school that "stresses training in cultural subjects and social activities." Well, it isn't just for girls anymore. Eric Garcia gives us the wickedly funny evil twin of the chick-lit genre, in "Cassandra French's Finishing School For Girls." Cassandra French is your average modern L.A. woman -- she has two weird pals, a crazy mother under house arrest, a not-so-fulfilling job, and three gorgeous young men chained in the basement. Those three men are being remade and revamped at Cassandra's "finishing school," where she takes boorish, alcoholic gropers and turns them into sensitive, polite, woman-friendly, color-coordinated men. Then Cassandra meets hot actor Jason Kelly, who seduces her in an effort to sue the studio she works for. So Jason becomes the newest student at the Finishing School -- Cassandra doesn't plan to let the pretty-boy celebrity use women anymore. But things start to spin out of control when the enraged Jason manages to tangle himself up with chains and wires, and electrocutes himself. Now Cassandra has to dispose of the body, deflect suspicion, deal with the fiancee and unborn baby of one of the "boys," and keep her friends from blabbing about her secret school... It's a rare woman who hasn't met a jerk like the ones Cassandra has to deal with -- the sensitive, adorable Owen starts off as a drunken creep who doesn't understand the word "no." Okay, nobody could really approve of Cassandra's methods to revamp her slobs and jerks into gentlemen (except toward guys like Jason). But it's certainly funny to see her do it. For awhile, Garcia seems to be coasting plotwise -- Cassandra entangles herself with two men, scuppers a club, and teaches the boys. It's funny, but a little monotonous. But when Jason dies, things descend into a hilarious downward spiral. Cassandra's careful plans and regulations go completely out the window, and Garcia knows just how to milk the humor. Cassandra is a hilarious retake on the chick-lit heroine. She's just avoids being amoral, by considering her "teaching" to be a favor to women, men, and the world in general. There's also a likably kooky backup cast of the tormented Claire, the idiotic yoga teacher Lexi, Cassandra's nutzoid mother, and the likable young nightclub owner whom Cassandra definitely likes. Think a boot-camp "Bridget Jones," and you have "Cassandra French's Finishing School For Boys." Eric Garcia's best thus far, and a thoroughly entertaining read.
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Summary: cass french finishing school for boys
Review: This is the most disgusting book i have ever had the misfortune
to read.I couldnt finish it,because i wanted to vomit.
Bookcover completely misleading,definitely not hilarious or funny.Should only be sold in porn bookshops or those for the
cranky. I brought my book back to the bookshop and got a refund.
Dirty and creepy and twisted.I feel sorry for you,america !
Rating: 
Summary: An interesting idea
Review: Welcome to the world of Cassandra French, twentysomething lawyer in business affairs for a major film studio. Between dodging calls fom her under house arrest mother and dealing with a distinct lack of meaningful work at work, Cassandra also juggles the needs of her three boys.
Is Cassandra a single mother? Oh, no. Cassandra runs an elite school for boys in need of correction in her unfinished basement. And there's a brand new student...hot young actor Jason Kelly.
Enough with the fluff. "Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys" is a quirky, satire of a novel. Be warned there are some dark moments with interesting outcomes. The cover may look like a chick lit novel doodled on by a bored teenager but inside is a quick moving tale that spoofs Hollywood actors, dating, pet owners who think Fluffy can do no wrong and the legal system.
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Summary: chick lit meets oh so black comedy
Review: You can't argue with the tremendously high concept of this very yarny yarn: sick of guys, Hollywood studio functionary Cassandra French decides to drug and chain three of them in her basement, so that they can be taught how to treat women right. With a plot that good, and with repeatedly dire twists to it that make you fear for surprisingly sympathetic Cassie, let alone the author (one of the "boys" she kidnaps, for example, turns out to be taken away from a pregnant fiance: how do you make that funny? Garcia pulls it off), what we have here is a chick lit winner. Maybe my five star reviews are too soft-hearted, because this book wasn't perfect. There's some of the usual boilerplate: e.g., my upper arms are so ugly, and yet every guy in the book thinks I'm so hot! And the love interest story/Bridget Jones diary excerpts are strictly by-the-numbers. But Garcia gets away with it all because he writes like a pro, the jokes aren't bad, and the story keeps chugging along to a quite satisfying end.
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