Scan barcode
A review by sheamaryfitz
Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
2.0
I wasn't a huge fan of this book. I picked it up at a library book sale (paid probably a dollar for it), had it for awhile and decided I needed to read it so I could make room on my bookshelf. I started it a few months ago but wasn't really into it so I put it down and picked it up again about a week or so ago. This time I wasn't into it any moreso than before. I just couldn't get into the book. There's something about Bushnell's style in this one I just didn't like.
I didn't feel like the book flowed very well, and even after reading the whole thing, I don't think there was much of a plot. Nothing really happened to the characters...I felt like it was 300+ pages of the author going on and on about what it means to be a successful woman and what people think of them. Which, that's all well and good, but more suited for an essay than a novel if you ask me--if I'm reading a novel, I want something to happen in it!
I read Bushnell's [b:The Carrie Diaries|7091370|The Carrie Diaries|Candace Bushnell|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1275618679s/7091370.jpg|7347624] and enjoyed that, so I think I'll give her another shot, but if this was all I've read by her, I wouldn't pick up another one.
I didn't feel like the book flowed very well, and even after reading the whole thing, I don't think there was much of a plot. Nothing really happened to the characters...I felt like it was 300+ pages of the author going on and on about what it means to be a successful woman and what people think of them. Which, that's all well and good, but more suited for an essay than a novel if you ask me--if I'm reading a novel, I want something to happen in it!
I read Bushnell's [b:The Carrie Diaries|7091370|The Carrie Diaries|Candace Bushnell|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1275618679s/7091370.jpg|7347624] and enjoyed that, so I think I'll give her another shot, but if this was all I've read by her, I wouldn't pick up another one.