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One of my favorite blogs to stalk since getting a library card recently posted a review of Ms. Fales-Hill's newest book and the description of a crew of diversly sexy women pulled me in like quicksand.
Attorney India has enough on her plate trying to keep up with her mother's latest divorce attempt and her own whirlwind romance with French chef, Julien. So when the love of her life stumbles back into her world, she's forced to re-evaluate quite a few things.
Abby loves literature, but being married to a sculptor who's always on the verge of being discovered means someone has to support the family financially, so she runs her family's art gallery even though it's not her passion.
She's always played with fire, but her friends have no idea that Esme is dangerously close to getting burned. A spoiled woman of means, she treats Manhattan as her playground and the men in it as her toys.
Though she was their tormentor at Sibley, Monique has managed to work her way into the world of the trio of friends. She's still as brash and rude as she was at Sibley and being a doctor has only added arrogance to her list of characteristics.
Susan Fales-Hill has worked on several award winning shows from The Cosby Show and Different World to Linc's. A Manhattanite herself, with a true global flair, it would be great to see a mini-series or network series from Fales-Hill based on these characters.
I picked the book up from the library yesterday and it was so fascinating and interesting that I finished it last night. Have you ever read a book that was so well written that you became attached to the characters? Well that's what happened to me. There was a character whose actions enraged me, a character I wanted to be girlfriends with, and a character I wish I knew in real life and sympathized with. Susan Fales-Hill did a great job of exploring each character's back story all throughout the book instead of flatly announcing who had mommy issues and who had low self esteem. She left it up to the reader to pick up on the idiosyncrasies of the main characters and read between the lines to figure out what was NOT being said.
Another thing I loved about the book was that none of the characters were stereotypical. There are so many books that tell the exact same story that you reach a point where you're waiting for the natural haired sister to do or say the expected and you imagine Dr. Monique to be super bourgie.
The one issue I had with the book was that I felt it ended without India resolving her issues. I foresee her continuing the cycle of foolishness that she was on....which is sad.
Overall the book was fabulous and I'd recommend it to any woman I call a friend.
