Book 31 - 4 blondes by Candace Bushnell

4 Blondes

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My friend gave me this book sometime in the Spring along with another book she was getting rid of. I'm going to dubiously pass it to my sister to read, because I pass her most everything I read, maybe she'll like it better. Perhaps I would have enjoyed this book better during my insane materialistic phase that lasted a few months, but even then I'm not so sure.

The book was divided up into four different short stories about you guessed it, four different blonde women one character was a model, the second character was a columnist, the third character was a socialite and the fourth character was a writer. The model and the columnist were downright nasty characters. One was a user, the other cared way too much about image and presented a front to the outside world, but was very different in her private life and very mean to her husband. These two characters were sort of rewarded at the end of their stories, the model more than the columnist but I felt like they learned nothing and shouldn't have gotten what they did at the end of the story. At this point in finishing both stories I felt like I was reading a train wreck and than it got worse. The socialite's story was full of WTF. The last story, the best one in the book was just alright, it was about a writer on her journey to London in hopes to score a husband because she's single and middle aged in NY.

Overall this is one of the few books I read where I mostly detest it, and can't really give a recommendation that anyone read it. I had this idea that Candace Bushnell's work was pretty good, but after this book I'm doubtful and I'm not sure if I'll pick up anything else by her to read.