"Say hello to Holly—a writer way behind on her deadline whose fiftieth birthday is rushing at her like a freight train. Which might not seem so bad if her hormones weren’t making her feel like a Szechuan flambé, her editor wasn’t calling every day to tighten the screws, and her eighty-year-old mother wasn’t biting her nurses because the doctor’s been feeding her enough steroids to kill an elephant. Not to mention the fact that Holly’s daughter has just begun applying to colleges (none of which are within a thousand mile radius of home) and, lately, her husband’s been such an irritating, finger-pointing stinker that she’s found herself dreaming of ways to spend his insurance money…" -Goodreads.com
So the only reason I read The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus was solely on the fact that Sonya Sones wrote it. I've been a fan of all of her teen books and when I saw this at the bookstore I immediately grabbed it without reading what it was about since I knew I would love it... but I didn't completely love it. Don't get me wrong, I did like it but I'm just not a big fan about reading a book about someone going through menopause... Because yeah, that was a huge theme in the book. So it might appeal to some people but obviously not me.3 stars.
Read on March 12, 2013
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