Review: I fell in love with this boxed set!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
My youngest daughter graduates from college in May.  I recommended that she check with her department and make sure everything was okay.  She called me and proudly told me what went wrong and how she fixed it after talking to her long time boyfriend.  I was proud of her, but I thought about how much growing up she would have to do after college.  Three Girls is a boxed set of Three Girls and a Baby, Three Girls and a Wedding and Three Girls and a Leading Man.  The books center around three long time girlfriends who escaped their dysfunctional family by becoming their own family.  Ginny and Annie grew up on the same street and were joined in high school by Jen.  After college and Ginny's horrible breakup they all move in together.  Ginny's boyfriend won't quit texting or calling her and one day when everyone is out, they hook up.  He still says he does not think they are good for each other, so Ginny grows a spine and tells him not to contact her for a while so she can get over them.  Morning sickness hits poor Ginny and her girls buy her a pregnancy test.  The positive pregnancy test launches her into a  "Top Chef" marathon, which is strange because she can't cook.  Ginny decides to keep the baby, but gets fired from her Nanny job.  She finds another at a book store where she is happy and starts to feel good about herself.  The girls nag her to tell Josh and when she finally works up the nerve, his phone number has been disconnected.  She gets through it all with Jen and Annie.  The labor scenes were hilarious, because they are eating in a gay bar and she refuses to believe she is in labor. The pregnancy gave her a chance to become the person she used to be and not be this needy person she had become.  Complications with Josh's parents and the reappearance of Josh give Ginny lots of things to decide.The books continue with Jen getting to do the wedding of her dreams, while planning Ginny's wedding.  She works herself into a coma and then messes up the date of Ginny's wedding when the couple changed the date to get a cheaper rate on the honeymoon while they didn't quite have all of her attention.  The last book deals with actress Annie's lack of fulfillment in her job.  Kiki, the bride in the big wedding Jen was doing, got her rich dad to give them a small loan to open an event planning business of their own.  Her dad is opening up a nightclub aimed at their age customer and gives them a plush trip to Vegas to do research on what makes a club a hit.  Annie meets a guy with a Detroit ballcap on who is there with a bachelor's party.  He and Annie really connect, but Annie does not do relationships especially with an engineer.  A movie star from Detroit comes back and produces plays and Annie finally lands a major role.  The play is a hit and goes to Chicago and then to New York.  Will Annie follow fame or love?I have always been a reader and I do not lean on other people, they seem to lean on me.  I loved these characters and wished I had had friends that close when I was that age.  They all grew past the things you have to deal with when you are finally on your own by always being there for each other.  They kept each other sane and gave baby Danny a circle of love to make him feel safe when they were scared to death themselves.  These are the kind of friends you will never lose through thick or thin.  The humor is as good as the characters and the comedic timing.  If you are looking for some " Mind Meth " this is the box set for you.  I bought the last Three Girls book today and it is called " The Truth about Ever After " and I also recommend finishing your Three Girls experience with it.