Mine Are Spectacular

Book No: 8
Title: Mine are Spectacular
Author: Janice Kaplan & Lynn Schnurnberger
Genre: Chick Lit
Completed: 2/10/09
No. of Pages: N/A
Rating: 3/5*****

Chick-lit for the over forty set.

Most chick lit is for young ‘singletons’ looking for love while balancing a career and friends. This book, as well as the author’s other title The Botox Diaries, targets the over forty set. They have very different problems, second marriages, career versus having children; careers after children are getting older never mind thinking about Botox, liposuction and all other manner of keeping age at bay.

The story centers on three friends; Sara, whose husband ran away 8 years ago leaving her alone to raise their son, and she is about to get married to the wealthy and handsome Bradford; Berni, who at 40, and pregnant with her first children (twins), has left behind her career as a Hollywood agent; and Kate a very successful dermatologist who is having an affair with a married man.

When Bradford’s ex-wife, with sullen teenage daughter in tow and Sara’s ex-husband returns looking to reinsert himself into her life things start to spin a little out of control. Add in the fact that Sara has somehow become a TV star on the Food Network and her gorgeous and handsome very young co-star is smitten with her all kinds of chaos can and will occur.

This is a cute beach read, fluff with little substance, but there is a lot of satirizing of the suburban lifestyle versus Manhattan chic and Sara is held up as the voice of reason in all the madness. I laughed quite a bit and enjoyed the read, but we all know from page one how this will turn out, it’s just fun getting to the end. I do think The Botox Diaries was a bit better though.