Killing Monica // Book Review

Hi beauties!

I am a huge Candace Bushnell fan. I love 'Sex and the City', 'The Carrie Diaries'  and also 'Lipstick Jungle'. So I was really excited to find that Candace was releasing a new book.

"When P.J Wallis, creator of peachy-skinned, button-nosed good-time girl Monica (of Monica: A Girl’s Guide to Being A Girl, its three sequels and four movies) was christened Pandemonia, someone must have been looking into a crystal ball. She might have been born into faded elegance in a dilapidated mansion in the Hudson Valley, but after years of struggle, Pandy Wallis – the fabulously successful author – is cutting a swathe through Manhattan, leaving a trail of trashed pool clubs, shrieking girlfriends and empty pink-champagne bottles in her wake. And then there are the men: if it’s not movie star Doug Stone, with his chiselled jaw and megawatt smile, it’s darkly glamorous celebrity chef husband Jonny Balaga, who brings some very specialised skills to Pandy’s table.

But as a Monica on Top billboard as big as Bergdorf Goodman raises its head about the New York skyline, all is not well in P.J Wallis’s world. Jonny Balaga has sunk his teeth into her earnings, her loyal agent Henry is losing patience and her soul sister, sidekick and saviour – actress SondraBeth Schnowzer (who also happens to play Monica) – has betrayed her. Worst of all, though, P.J. Wallis has had enough of her lucrative alter ego. Yearning to return to her roots, she dodges divorce lawyers, lightning strikes and a giant revolving Lazy Susan. It beings to look like to only way out for Pandemonia is killing Monica – even if it kills her too."

After reading the first five chapters, I struggled to get into it. I tried night after night to pick the boook up again and keep on reading. But when I failed to connect with any of the character's I decided to google the novel title. 

That made a few lightswitches flick on in my head as I noticed a few parallels with Candace's real life. Pandy is the successfull author of a much loved character (strike one), and PJ has three best friends (Strike two). Pandy also has a signature drink, unline Carrie Bradshaws which was a cosmopolitan, it is pink champagne.

The character's throughout the book were one dimensional and I couldn't relate to them at all. The elaborate parties, lifestyle and money being thrown around kept me reading but made me skim through most parts, which is what a good book shouldn't do. I really feel like I have been let down with this book and I understand in Candace's life she was going through relationship problems at the time so this probably affected the book.

I really don't want to give up on Candace Bushnell because of one bad book, but I suggest if you want to pick this up then do so with an open mind and not expecting to much. Maybe take it to the bach over summer or read it on the beach this year? 

Have you read amy of Candaces novels? We're you a sex and the city fan too?

*Book supplied.