Manuel Maldonado itibaren Ingram, AR , USA

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2018-05-30 08:40

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There's not a lot of words I can use to sum up this book. But I think I can use a few to give you an idea: A delightful romp. This book is like a Pop-tart: no nutritional value but so darned good, and lots of fun. At the beginning of the book, you can't help but to ask, "Do people actually live like this?" By the end of the book, it just doesn't matter. The wives of Hunting Hills, a 'burb of Cleveland, OH, certainly know how to live the "well-maintained" life. Their husbands make money hand over fist, and these women exist to spend it. And it's not just about the outward trappings; there's a whole code of conduct. So, as they are wearing their Gucci and Manolo Blahniks, renovating their kitchens, carting their children to expensive private schools and rushing to meet their life coaches, they must also do certain things: Look, act, be busy, and complain about being busy. Eat voraciously on social occasions and starve yourself after. Spin everything into a positive light. Don't read serious books at your book club. Don't reveal where you got your gorgeous clothes. Make perfection your career. Cosmetic surgery is de rigeur. And into this atmosphere of perfection walks the newest Hunting Hills wife: Claire, a 40-year-old Amazon from the hills of West Virginia, a well-traveled journalist who has made budgeting and independence a life form. She and her wealthy, intellectual Hunting Hills husband John are madly in love...but as it turns out, Marti, the leader of the Wives, is madly in love with John and has her target trained upon him. But trouble comes in many forms, and as Claire gets to know these vapid, materialistic wives, she begins to appreciate that not all is as it should be. One husband makes his wife take a walk on the lesbian side; another is a habitual cheater; yet another is robbing his wife, and all of their friends, blind. As Claire gets more and more involved in their lives and ordeals, she somehow becomes one of them, yet also transfigures them into something more. Best quote: "I don't like when women think. It usually costs me money." Reminds me of Olivia Goldsmith's Switcheroo in terms of suburban setting, and descriptions of suburban domestic life and scarcely-believable domestic drama.

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