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Crimes Against a Book Club
by Kathy Cooperman
This sounded like it would be right up my alley. I love my book club, I love humor, I love caper stories, so this seemed like a natural for me. And there were definitely parts I liked. But the parts I didn't like really bugged me!
I could totally sympathize with Annie. I have three kids with medical problems and the bills can be overwhelming. My kids sometimes wonder why we didn't take vacations to Disney, why we didn't sign up for dance lessons and music lessons and have nice cars. Easy - all our money went to medical bills. The idea of coming with some crazy scheme to finance a new therapy - sign me up.
And I appreciated that they weren't taking money from other cash-strapped moms, but from the upper crust, the ones who want whole heartedly support conspicuous consumption. I got a little tired of how outstandingly attractive Sarah was, how she only had to show up and everyone wanted to talk to her, to be her. You know, she's been on hormones to get pregnant. That makes you gain weight and get puffy.
My real problem was the secret ingredient. SPOILER:
It's cocaine.
And that's my biggest complaint. Annie comes up with this brilliant scheme to make her skin care creme more attractive, to give it that extra something. I was expecting something kind of like this, but really? Has she never heard of the health risks? She takes a few really basic precautions, like telling Sarah not to sell it to pregnant women, but that's about it. What about those elderly women? What about those with heart problems? It's so unbelievably stupid for such a supposedly smart woman to do. And then when the consequences inevitably hit, I just had to roll my eyes. There was a lot of potential in this one, but in the end, I just couldn't buy it. Sorry, but not recommended.
I could totally sympathize with Annie. I have three kids with medical problems and the bills can be overwhelming. My kids sometimes wonder why we didn't take vacations to Disney, why we didn't sign up for dance lessons and music lessons and have nice cars. Easy - all our money went to medical bills. The idea of coming with some crazy scheme to finance a new therapy - sign me up.
And I appreciated that they weren't taking money from other cash-strapped moms, but from the upper crust, the ones who want whole heartedly support conspicuous consumption. I got a little tired of how outstandingly attractive Sarah was, how she only had to show up and everyone wanted to talk to her, to be her. You know, she's been on hormones to get pregnant. That makes you gain weight and get puffy.
My real problem was the secret ingredient. SPOILER:
It's cocaine.
And that's my biggest complaint. Annie comes up with this brilliant scheme to make her skin care creme more attractive, to give it that extra something. I was expecting something kind of like this, but really? Has she never heard of the health risks? She takes a few really basic precautions, like telling Sarah not to sell it to pregnant women, but that's about it. What about those elderly women? What about those with heart problems? It's so unbelievably stupid for such a supposedly smart woman to do. And then when the consequences inevitably hit, I just had to roll my eyes. There was a lot of potential in this one, but in the end, I just couldn't buy it. Sorry, but not recommended.