Lipstick Jungle

I just finished Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell. She wrote a little book you may have heard of.... Sex and the City. So what is it about Ms. Bushnell that makes us return to her books.

The answer would have to be her Characters. Why did thousands upon thousands of fans tune in to watch the adventures of Carrie Bradshaw and company every week? It's because we all have a bit of Carrie in us. We all want to be Samantha, secretly cringe at the fact that there is a part of us that is Miranda, and like Charlotte, we all just want what was promised to us when we were growing up. The same holds true for Lipstick Jungle.

I found that I could Sympathize with Wendy Healey, that I was often at a Cross Roads like Victory Ford and that like Nico O'Neilly I wanted to succeed, but wanted to also have a heart. Ms. Bushnell has found a way to weave her stories together so that you find yourself wanting to sit down to lunch with these ladies. You may not like the choices they make, but you understands what drives them to do what they do, because they are the same things that are driving you.

The book moved forward with a steady current that kept me hooked. Moving from one character to the other, telling stories in flashbacks and letting the reader feel what her characters are feeling makes for a wonderful read. It did seem that the book comes to a sudden end, and it could be viewed that Ms. Bushnell ran out of things to say, but it only left me wanting more. So here is hoping that this is not the last we will see of the girls from the Jungle.