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 A Quick, Easy Read May 28, 2010
By Mrs. C. Colbert
Grace is a 39 year old bored housewife living in Connecticut with her husband and two daughters. She dislikes her husband, her friends, her figure, her lifestyle, and wonders why her teenage daughter is so nasty to her, not realising that she herself is such a nasty, selfish person.
When she is contacted by an old school friend, April, via a social networking site she is immediately jealous to discover that her friend is now a celebrity hugging fashion photographer to the stars. They meet up for lunch and Grace is invited to a party that evening at April's apartment where she is promised that famous people will be attending. After lying to her husband about where she is going, she meets the rich, handsome and charming Victor who seems smitten with her and he invites her to his Malibu home.
As Grace lies more and more to her family without feeling guilty she soon realises that Victor and his world is not all it seems.
At only 156 pages I soon sped through the story, the writing style was simple and the characters were believable. I didn't like Grace at all or any of her hypocritical friends, they were all nasty and bitchy, and her husband was a wimp who never really questioned Grace on her whereabouts, he just believed her lies.
One thing that I couldn't understand - Grace was mentioned on the back cover and in the book as being middle-aged - but since when is 39 middle-aged??!
Anyway, apart from that it was an easy book to read, and I did enjoy it overall. One to read while sitting on the beach or in the garden when you just want something light.
 I could put this book down.. Aug 10, 2009
By TheMatrixReader
I don't usually read books of this genre but I read the back-cover description and thought I would give it a try. Well, once I started I couldn't put the book down. Grace has to be one of the most shallow and dispicable charachers in any novel I have ever read. Her unrelenting drive to take back her youth at any cost made me sick to my stomach. Liberman unleashes a roller-caoster of emotions that kept me guessing throughout. I highly recommend this novel.
The Grass isn't Always Greener on the Other Side Aug 06, 2009
By The Book Faery Reviews
Liberman had me glued from page 1 to 156 starting and ending within 3 hours because I just had to know what Grace was going to say or do. Perhaps this is because there are days I feel like I'm on the path of trying to discover why my life is the way that it is and wondering how could I make it more exciting (not about being a mom but wondering how I let the years fly by so fast without doing some of the things I said I'd do)?! I cringed yet loved her "say what's on your mind" attitude without caring what someone thinks. It was eye-opening in a sense for me, feeling like Grace as the routine housewife/stay at home mom wondering what her life would have been like had things been differently. Like Grace, most of us have that one friend who we feel envious of because of the different lifestyle they lead. I know I do and there are times I want to jump onto the other side to see if the "grass IS greener on the other side". Coming from the perspective of this psychologist/author, Greg Liberman helped me come to terms with some of my own personal issues dealing with certain relationships in my own life. I recommend this book to anyone seeking that desire to change life drastically and recommend they read this first.
You can read Greg Liberman's author guest post at The Book Faery Reviews here: [...]
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Too Many Wrinkles? Jul 26, 2009
By B. Davis
"crazy about books"
Grace was once a beautiful young woman. Where did the time and the beauty go? Why didn't she have the life she had dreamed of?
Grace, a middle-aged woman, is not unlike many women her age--a wrinkle here and a wrinkle there; a few kids; a boring life; time passing quickly. But when Grace reconnects with her old friend, her life begins to take on a life of its own.
This book follows Grace through the twists and turns of what she believes is the life she has always dreamed of. Is it all it seems to be?
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