I first read this the summer of 2018 when I binge watched the series for the first time. I was pleasantly surprised at how well written this novel was. Since I first read this somewhat long, complicated and slightly different from the series novel 5 years ago, I’m planning on re-reading it again with fresh eyes. Don’t listen to the negative reviews, it’s a good read!

warm and fuzzy with just enough drama to keep me going. just what I needed.

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.

The TV series of Lipstick Jungle has been a favourite for a long time and so I read the book off the back of that and it did not disappoint! The characters; Nico, Wendy and Victory are all so funny and the backdrop of New York City makes it a perfect read!

A feminist book and the old issue of can women build a successful career and still have a healthy family life. Love the idea of women can choose what they want to do and men will need to learn to live with it.

One of those reads that could easily become a movie. Popsugar - 2022

So, at first I was going to write this whole review about the book and why I SHOULDN'T have liked it. But the truth of the matter is that it was entertaining enough and it's okay for a book to be just that. I'm allowing myself to find the good in things for what they are. And sometimes you want a fluffy, no brainer. It's called ENTERTAINMENT. Something I normally make myself feel guilty over enjoying.

I truly didn't appreciate the whole, "women can and should have it all and be the best" attitude because I really don't think that's true. See? Here I go with the whole, why I shouldn't like it stuff. I'm stopping.

If you try not to read too much into anything and just look at it as mindless entertainment, it's fine.

I love Candice Bushnell for giving us a book that eventually became the TV series Sex and the City, but most of her books are OK. Not a bad way to pass an afternoon though.

I found this book at a neighborhood library hole and thought it would be fun to read as I had never read it. I wanted to see just how well (or not!) the book held up years after being written. Weeellll, not so well! Unfortunately it reads rather dated but I gave it 3 stars because I know that in the Sex and the City era it was wildly enjoyed. The reason to read it now is simply to put yourself back in the day and remember how and why this was a somewhat heralded book.

I lived in the city so I really enjoy reading Bushnell’s novels.

This one, was a good read until the last 2/3rds where she wrote so deep about her characters that she lost me. Part of it is knowing their successes had changed them. I see that with some school mates that I grew up with. And, the fight that they had to do to continue being successful is real. I see the behavior in people I know.

I liked how the three friends stayed friends. That’s unusual sometimes. But, if your so successful, you can have a take it or leave it attitude especially with others around you are the same way. That kind of life would not give me peace.

Oddly different from the show - but a good read.

"But in person, those flaws were erased by an intangible quality that made it impossible to stop looking at her. It was as if she possessed her own energy source that caused her to be lit from within"

"Something insider he sank at the sight of all that sameness, and she suddenly felt defeated...In the past year she'd started experiencing these moments of desperate emptiness, as if nothing really mattered, nothing was ever going to change, there was nothing new; and she could see her life stretching before her -- one endless long day after the next, in which every day was essentially the same... All her life she'd been striving and striving to become this thing that was herself.... And then one morning time had caught up with her and she had woken up and realized she was there. She had arrived at her destination, and she had everything she worked so hard for.... She should have been thrilled but instead she felt tired. Like all those things belonged to someone else."

"In the beginning, when she was rising up and it was all new, life was nothing less than a blast. Every day was filled with delicious little thrills, and [they] had ridden high on the glorious feeling that they were achieving and conquering. The problem was, no one ever told you that you had to keep on conquering. You could never stop."

"She felt the sweet, creamy sensation of power....God it was a heady feeling. She'd never experienced anything like it in her life. It was oddly centering."

"Every day was like this now -- it jangled with the irritations of the unknown. She was frightened. She had, she realized, spent a good portion of her life being secretly afraid. Afraid of being along, of not having a man. Of appearing not good enough to have a man. Was that one of the reasons why she worked so hard to be successful? So she could buy a man?"

"What if she got Mike's job and it didn't matter? What if nothing mattered?"

Wonderful writing but awful book. The characters had no redeeming value, so much so that instead of rooting for the characters I was happy to see bad things happen to them. These characters are the exact reason why some men hate feminists; there is nothing wrong with being a strong woman but these women took it to another level of belittling and disrespecting the men in their lives. These women seem to think that being a strong woman is about being as big of a jerk as you can to men, which couldn't be further from the truth. Being a jerk, makes you a jerk, plain and simple, whether you're male or female. Their shallowness and selfishness was appalling--their failure to recognize how their actions affect their entire families, their quest for power and money put above being good decent people. They are the kind of people who create awful situations in their lives and then blame everyone else when these situations go awry. They are great businesswomen but it is possible to be smart, beautiful AND have a conscience and morals.