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The Goddess Rules

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Here’s the delightful new novel from Clare Naylor, whose sleeper hit Dog Handling was one of Cosmopolitan ’s Best Beach Reads for 2002. Fresh and fun, The Goddess Rules is an outrageous, wry, and razor-sharp portrait of a girl who thinks her life is just fine–until she meets a woman who swears by the belief that life is meant to be fabulous .

When obsessed pet owners have pooches or kitties they want immortalized on canvas, Kate Disney is the artist of choice. From her shed (which doubles as a studio and apartment) in London’s Primrose Hill, Kate caters to the whims of the rich and famous while herself living a decidedly bohemian existence. The problem is, she has a tendency to cater to her on-again, way-off-again boyfriend as well. Jake is so erratic, that most of her friends don’t understand why she even bothers. But it’s hard to fall out of love with a man who writes her songs and calls her “Angel”–even if he disappears for weeks at a time.

Luckily for Kate, Mirabelle Moncur isn’t buying any of that claptrap. Mirri was an actress, a legend in her time. Now, at age sixty, she’s given up on fame and men and lives in Africa, where she raises lion cubs. But her reclusive nature has done nothing to dull her beauty, mar her incredible figure, or dampen her outrageous joie de vivre.

After sweeping into London to have Kate paint a portrait of her favorite cub, Mirri seizes hold of Kate’s life–from the baggy wardrobe to the hopeless taste in men. Under Mirri’s tutelage, Kate learns to dance on tables with abandon, drink like a dockworker, and flirt like a goddess. And when her old friend Louis reenters the picture, she begins to see things in a whole new light. But Mirri has secrets that hint at a less than divine future. Now it’s Kate’s turn to teach Mirri a thing or two about life, love, and being fabulous.

368 pages, Paperback

First published March 1,2005

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Format
368 pages, Paperback
Published
January 31, 2006 by Ballantine Books
ISBN
9780345463418
ASIN
0345463412
Language
English

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Hippe0
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April 25,2025
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Picked it up off of the New Books shelf, and now I shall have to read more. A little anticlimactic, but really very fantastic tale of how confidence (and sex appeal via that confidence) might actually work.
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Esdez
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April 25,2025
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That's right: I read a "Cosmopolitan's Best Beach Read." And I'm not sorry. I have discovered the antidote to Stephen King. And it is a light, fluffy as a pink bunny, English novel. It was like a rated-PG Sex in the City.
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DimiamOmega
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April 25,2025
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This book started a little slow, but half way thru it picked up and I really enjoyed it.
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Oradio10
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April 25,2025
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I must say that Clare Naylor's book, The Goddess Rules was not what I expected it to be. Yes, it's about a single girl looking for love- but it took turns that I didn't expect. The story follows Kate Disney, who's dating a hopeless loser, because she's happy to settle for what she has. When Mirabelle Moncur, Marilyn Monroe like sexpot from the sixties, moves in, she begins to teach Kate to embrace her inner sexpot. Yes, this sounds more hokey than it is-- I actually really liked the Moncur character. Mirabelle helps Kate learn and discover new things about herself and make decisions that she may not be ready to accept.

Yes this book follows all the same patterns for traditional chick lit. However, at one point it did get a little eyebrow raising, (they threw in a juicy sex scene... yeah!) and I enjoyed it. It took a slightly different route than most books, and I enjoyed that it was something "new" to a "getting old" format. I had fun when I was reading this book- it wasn't life changing or entirely engrossing... but it was still good to read. I'm giving it a postive 6.5/10- recommended for light and fluffy beach reading.
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KayB
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April 25,2025
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It took a while for this one to get going. The second half of the book was better than the first.
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gautam
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April 25,2025
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A very funny narrator and quirky characters and tons of witty banter. Kudos to the author for keeping me interested though the main character was ridiculously stupid about her boyfriend, long after the time she should have gotten a clue. Listened to this on audiobook.
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jdristig
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April 25,2025
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2.5 stars. It was a bit hard to get behind the protagonist on this one. She was one of those girls who has it better than you but is an idiot and doesn't realize. Good cast of secondaries, though. Certainly an amusing little book, just a bit too realistic for my tastes, only with more hot men. I prefer, if it's going to be realistic, that it not get my hopes up. :-P
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