Apocalipstick

Rating:
Summary: A Fun, Light Read!!
Review: This was a fun and rather fresh addition to the genre of "Chick Lit" that I highly recommend if you are looking for a fast read that will have the reader laughing out loud, and playing arm chair investigator along side our funny but ditzy heroine Rebecca Fine.

Rebecca Fine is a journalist and she is looking for that one article that will shoot her off into journalism stardom. Problem is, she writes a beauty column and there just really isn't a huge chance of there being some dangerous and dastardly plot revolving around lip liner or lip-gloss. On top of that she has just found out that her father has a new love interest that just so happens to have been her childhood nemesis "Lipstick" and said love interest is now (temporarily anyhow) going to be her roommate. Oh, and yes and she just so happens to be embarking on a new relationship with Max Stoddart who has it all, looks, talent, and he just so happens to be working on a story that could make his total career. Everything is going great in the romance department but the rest of her life has gone into the rubbish bin, or at least she thinks so until she gets a huge break with a possible scandal in the cosmetic industry that will lead her straight to Paris, and perhaps the Pulitzer...okay maybe that's asking too much, but still she now has a chance to prove that she does have what it takes to be great. Now if she could only smooth out the bumps of her relationship with Max. It looks like she has competition from another source, and Becks doesn't know exactly what to do now? Should she trust him, or walk away and hope for better later?

This was a fun story with great charismatic characters. Becks is a times a little loopy and doesn't think things fully through before acting, but then again that's human nature at times. Thankfully this is not a re-occurring theme with her behavior throughout the story. The relationship between Max and Rebecca is fun entertaining, but does not take front and center as far as the storyline goes. In actuality there are several different sub-plots working at the same time with quite an eclectic cast of secondary characters, which keep this story from slowing down. The ending is fun with a satisfying conclusion for a storylines introduced. This is the first time I've ever read Ms. Margolis and it honestly won't be the last. For a fun light read I highly recommend this author.

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Rating:
Summary: Same story, different title!
Review: Well, I have now read all three of Sue Margolis' books - I really enjoyed Neurotica, but Spin Cycle and now Apocalipstick are just so-so. This one felt so similiar to the other two - the main character, spunky single woman, either has a sexually dysfunctional partner, or KNOWS someone with a sexually dysfunctional partner. She has some predictable flings (I almost laughed when they broke out the oil yet again during one of their "intimate moments". Oil was rubbed into her buttocks in each of the other two books. Hmmmm, must be an English thing, I guess). It was also odd that everytime someone cried in this book it was "a single tear rolled down her cheek" - I kid you not, this happened EVERY time! This book just felt like it was being churned out and not written; it wasn't very original.