Review: Who needs realism when you've got fun like this?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
I doubt many readers would mistake Camilla Randall for a woman they'd actually meet on the street. An upper crust gal who's been shafted out of her inheritance, divorce settlement, and job, she bounces (in Prada and Armani) from one desperate strait to another, the victim of unscrupulous characters and her own nearly-terminal poor judgment. The premise and plot are thoroughly unrealistic too. But this is not a bad thing. On the contrary, it is a fun thing.Anne Allen has a way of turning a phrase that cracks me up and an unabashedly around-the-bend plot that hooked me quickly and kept me glued. I bought the book yesterday, glanced at it, read last night till my eyeballs couldn't take any more, and finished it tonight. That's what I call entertainment!