This book was interesting. I mean I loved Sex and the City miniseries so I was ready to read Bushnell’s work. She has such an interesting point of view of women in business living in NYC.

Nico O’Reilly is a editor at Bonfire magazine and she wants to continue to climb in her job, but that means someone else has to lose theirs. And when Kirby, hot male underwear model, comes into her life and gives it pleasure we’ll let’s just say 40’s isn’t so bad. Not sure her husband would feel the same.

Wendy Healy is an executive at Paradour Management. She makes movies and has such a great time doing it. However, she has 3 kids and a husband that does nothing all day. She doesn’t know why he is so lazy either. And she is angling for the CEO position too, and she has done her time and shown progress she just hopes her personal life can help and not hinder this step.

Victory Ford is an up and coming fashion artist in the NYC scene. She has been in the business for 10 years and is seeing profit. Yet, she wants to take her fashion to a new level- couture. And when a fashion show at Fashion week doesn’t go well, her company might be in jeopardy. And then she meets Lynne Bennett, a 50 something billionaire, who is eccentric in his own way and Victory shows him how he cannot act around her, like a spoiled brat.

The women in this book are in their 40’s and somewhat well established in their careers, so it’s a story about how they maintain their careers (while making a shit ton of money) and supporting their families. These girls are all best friends also so they help each other a lot. Kinda reminds me Sex and the City vibes. These women are ruthless and stick up for themselves but can also be clouded on how they view things. Since they pay for everything. How the book was written wasn’t my favorite. It would start in the present and then rewind to the past and then tell you what happen. It wasn’t a book told in real time. So once you get used to that, it’s not so bad. But it was kinda confusing for timeline sake.

Man patika. Izbaudīju autores uzdoto jautājumu jau "Sekss un lielpilsēta" grāmatās un sērijās - vai sieviete var būt ietekmīga, laimīga un atrast mīlestību? Atbilde, protams, ir jā, lai arī šeit visām trim draudzenēm ir jāpieņem dažādi lēmumi un jāizbauda arī savs rūgtums, pirms tikt pie laimes.
Katrā ziņā izklaidējos un izbaudīju grāmatu.

What a fun read. I’m always drawn to heavy or emotional books and this was such a fun pallet cleanser. I got it from a book sale for a dollar and I loved it! This isn’t the greatest literature of our time but I was pleasantly surprised by the feminist plot line and the sharp strong women it portrayed.

Egy cuki, egyszer elolvasható kötet.
A nyelvezete teljesen megfelel a haladó angol szinten lévőknek, nyelvgyakorlásra kimondottan alkalmas.
A stílust és a tartalmat teljesen lefedi a cím. Emiatt nekem picit túl egyszerű. (No offense, de én az ilyen témájú köteteket tipik csajos, tingli-tangli köteteknek nevezem.)
Jól esett olvasni, de nem nagyon érzem a témát a magaménak, ugyanakkor vannak pillantok, amikor jól esik egy ilyen darab. (Pillanatnyilag jó ötletnek tűnt… átmeneti elmebaj… mit tudom is én. Olykor jólesik egy-egy ilyen könyv.)
Annak örvendek, hogy pénzt nem adtam ki rá; nem ér számomra annyit ez a kötet.

Bár sosem olvastam és láttam a Szex és New Yorkot, mégis van egy olyan sejtésem, hogy ez a kötet azoknak tetszhet a leginkább, akik azt (is) szeretik. – Ééés ja… most rákerestem az írónő további munkáira… még szép, hogy azoknak tetszhet leginkább, akik szeretik a Szex és New Yorkot, hiszen egyezik az író… (Van amikor úgy állok neki egy számomra – valamiért első ránézésre – szimpatikus kötetre, hogy semmit nem tudok az íróról / írónőről és a kötetről.)

This book is marketed as more mature Sex and the City. I didn't like Sex and the City book but because I had already bought few books from the author, I thought I may as well read them.

Lipstick Jungle doesn't fare much better than Sex and the City. In this book, the characters are in their forties and they are all successful in their own rights. This could have been a great book at empowering women and telling their stories in their forties and saying that you don't need no man to feel accomplished and powerful and successful and complete and happy but it tells a completely different story.

All the characters had no depth and no character development from the start to end. They were all too obsessed with image, money and glamour which isn't a bad thing but the way this was written made them sound like whining, selfish and immature characters who are out for themselves only. I mean I have read other books with selfish and immature characters and actually enjoyed those but this I was not able to enjoy.

I was going to rate it 1 star but then thought that the writing wasn't that bad so I am going with 2 stars. I just wish it had a better plot or better characters.

2 stars

Suka deh novel ini..

apalagi sekarang ada serial tivinya.. seru banget..

bongkar2 lagi ah nyari bukunya..

DNF, abandoned on page 462 with 70 pages to go. The story focuses on three main protagonists, all women in their early forties who are finding success in New York. Nico is editor in chief of a fashion magazine. Married with one child, she is engaged in an affair with an underwear model half her age because she and her husband have nothing happening in the bedroom. She is also shoving aside people on the way to the top; it's just business. Victory is a fashion designer. When she isn't hanging around waiting for a boorish, old (but rich man), she is judging her other friends or whole cultures (the French). Side note, the author should refrain from ever attempting to insert French into her dialogue. Like Steve Martin says, it's like the French have a different word for Everything. Yes, yes they do; so "Vous êtes une movie star?" Is just wrong wrong wrong. Wendy, the head of a movie production company, is even worse than the other two. She bribes her kids with money to get dressed, bribes her husband with blowjobs and then wonders why she has spoiled kids and a husband who just wants to leave. She's a workaholic who immediately entertains the idea of an affair with a previously abhorred work colleague when her immature husband first leaves. She apparently has all this money and power yet everyone treats her like crap, from her bratty kids to her snarky nanny. At one point she is pathetically tracking her family down at a horse show, dragging a suitcase full of junk she brought back for her kids from a movie shoot in Romania. Bushnell tries to portray these women as able to compete equally in a man's world and then makes them all weak and incompetent. And unlikeable. Highly unlikeable. Throw in characters whose motivation and traits change with the wind and voila! (As the French would say)you have this hot garbage of a book.

A nők hiába sikeresek, nagy hatalmúak, meg kell küzdeniük a férfiak uralta világgal és a magánéleti nehézségeikkel egyaránt. S ugyan megállják a helyüket, ám szinte semmi se választja el őket a hozzájuk hasonló pozícióban lévő férfiaktól, ugyanúgy viselkednek, mint a hímek. Szeretőt tartanak, úgy válnak el, mint sikeres férfiak és gyerektartást meg férjtartást kell fizetniük stb.

2.5 stjärnor. Inte förtjust i berättelser som har karaktärer som har affärer när de är gifta. Varken män eller som i detta fallet kvinnor. Resten av boken lyckades rädda lite av den för mig med sin humoristiska ton och lättlästa språk. Hade troligen varit en bok jag annars lagt undan, trots detta så gillade jag delar av de tre huvudkaraktärerna men om man bortser från sidokaraktärer som Seldon Rose och Seymour så hade jag svårt för alla personer i boken. Dottern till Nico verkade alldeles för förnuftig för sin ålder. En helt ok bok men inget jag skulle vilja läsa mer om. Slutet var väl trevligt visserligen men jag kände det var synd att vi inte fick mer av Seymour och hans syn på saker, många obesvarade frågor där enligt mig som varför vill han inte ha sex? Är han asexuell?

No está mal, aunque tenía otras expectativas puestas en este libro .
Lo compré porque me gustaba mucho la serie de televisión. Ésta fue cancelada de un día para otro y estaba deseando saber como terminaba la historia.
Al final me quedado igual, porque libro y serie no tienen mucho que ver. Una pena

I really enjoyed this book. I think even in 2018, this book is still relevant. It shows the struggles that women face in the workplace and when trying to build strong careers. It shows that women have different priorities and not every woman has the same goals. I loved this book and I will definitely be looking to read more books by Candace.

I just didn’t get it. To me it was about 3 wildly successful career women who were very unlikable and while they said they weren’t bitches they were, and while they said they were not only successful but also good mothers, they were in fact terrible mothers. Was just a weird book to me. Well written tho.