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The Lear Sisters Trilogy by Julia London
Material Girl, Beauty Queen, and Miss Fortune.
Material Girl – Oldest sister Robin is a high powered V.P. at daddy’s company a job she is ill prepared for and frankly sucks at. Meet Jake a guy from the wrong side of the tracks trying to make it as a contractor while studying architecture.
Beauty Queen – Middle sister former Miss Texas, Rebecca, is newly divorced from her childhood sweetheart with a small child who cries for his nanny. Meet man whore Matt the lawyer with a heart.
Miss Fortune – Sweet, quirky, baby sister Rachel professional student and self-saboteur. Meet Flynn investigator for Lloyds of London.
I really liked the fact that I could relate to all three sisters. I wasn’t sure I would because I mean “poor little rich girl” times three. But even rich girls have daddy issues. All three girls could be someone you’ve met. Pushy over achiever Rachel, underestimated good looker Rebecca, and Rachel with a heart of gold who lets everyone walk over her because she never feels good enough.
Warning somehow Jake’s nephew Cole from Material Girl turns into his son in the next two books.
Material Girl, Beauty Queen, and Miss Fortune.
Material Girl – Oldest sister Robin is a high powered V.P. at daddy’s company a job she is ill prepared for and frankly sucks at. Meet Jake a guy from the wrong side of the tracks trying to make it as a contractor while studying architecture.
Beauty Queen – Middle sister former Miss Texas, Rebecca, is newly divorced from her childhood sweetheart with a small child who cries for his nanny. Meet man whore Matt the lawyer with a heart.
Miss Fortune – Sweet, quirky, baby sister Rachel professional student and self-saboteur. Meet Flynn investigator for Lloyds of London.
I really liked the fact that I could relate to all three sisters. I wasn’t sure I would because I mean “poor little rich girl” times three. But even rich girls have daddy issues. All three girls could be someone you’ve met. Pushy over achiever Rachel, underestimated good looker Rebecca, and Rachel with a heart of gold who lets everyone walk over her because she never feels good enough.
Warning somehow Jake’s nephew Cole from Material Girl turns into his son in the next two books.
novelesque_life's review against another edition
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3.5 STARS
"The second installment in London's contemporary Lear sisters trilogy (Material Girl, etc.) showcases her talent for depicting the progress of intimacy between two equally strong and unpredictable lovers. As a young woman, Rebecca Lear gave up her dreams of an artistic career to be a dutiful daughter, a beauty pageant queen and a glittering socialite wife. Now, a divorcee with a five-year-old son, she discovers that a life spent meeting others' expectations has left her with no marketable experience and even less self-esteem. She dives into self-help books and searches for a confidence-bolstering job but has little success until she finds a position helping manage Tom Masters's campaign for lieutenant governor of Texas. At campaign headquarters, she immediately butts heads with campaign consultant Matt Parrish, a handsome trial lawyer with a bossy, arrogant demeanor, but as they work on the increasingly problematic campaign, the two find common ground." (From Amazon)
A good sequel...I enjoyed the romance and humour. This novel starts a bit slow but picks up and is great as the first book. I cannot wait to read the third book in the series.
"The second installment in London's contemporary Lear sisters trilogy (Material Girl, etc.) showcases her talent for depicting the progress of intimacy between two equally strong and unpredictable lovers. As a young woman, Rebecca Lear gave up her dreams of an artistic career to be a dutiful daughter, a beauty pageant queen and a glittering socialite wife. Now, a divorcee with a five-year-old son, she discovers that a life spent meeting others' expectations has left her with no marketable experience and even less self-esteem. She dives into self-help books and searches for a confidence-bolstering job but has little success until she finds a position helping manage Tom Masters's campaign for lieutenant governor of Texas. At campaign headquarters, she immediately butts heads with campaign consultant Matt Parrish, a handsome trial lawyer with a bossy, arrogant demeanor, but as they work on the increasingly problematic campaign, the two find common ground." (From Amazon)
A good sequel...I enjoyed the romance and humour. This novel starts a bit slow but picks up and is great as the first book. I cannot wait to read the third book in the series.
readercecc6's review
DNF@1 hour in
Couldn't finish this hot mess.
The heroine is, frankly, fucking useless. A former beauty queen who grew up extremely wealthy, her life falls apart after her husband divorces her. Divorces suck, that's a given, and I really don't want to blame the victim here but the woman deserved it. She has the personality of a rain soaked cardboard box and while I really couldn't care less one way or another how women choose to live their lives, if you're going to give it all up and be a housewife/stay at home mom, then own it. There's no shame in doing so. Anyone who's had to spend a week taking care of a newborn will tell you it's exhausting. But not only doesn't the heroine own her decision to stay home (her husband obviously didn't force her), after her marriage falls apart, she blames him for her lack of any marketable traits.
Umm.. Plenty of women go back to school after having children. Hell, plenty of single mothers go to school while pregnant/raising their children. I couldn't stand her whining and how she blamed everything wrong in her life on her ex. Not that anything was really wrong to begin with.
Boohoo, you shopped the entirety of your marriage instead of learning how to type. Poor you, you were busy attending society functions/charity balls instead of learning how to file. Cry me a fucking river. She's a fucking beauty queen from a wealthy family and has a huge divorce settlement from the man she stopped giving a shit about years ago. She has terrific sisters, a loving father (who she blames for everything wrong in her life too) and a son she supposedly loves but not really since he hadn't even appeared onscreen with her by the time I gave up on this shit.
I couldn't stand her constant bitching about her nonexistent problems and her supposed low self esteem (she proclaimed to suffer from low self esteem after discovering her husband's affairs but the very next chapter, she uses her beauty/charm to humiliate a man). I probably could've been more empathetic but the woman never took responsibility for anything. I mean, at one point she even blamed her husband for divorcing her even though she admitted to knowing about and allowing him his affairs. Then she went to an employment agency and got pissed because they wouldn't bend over backwards and give her a cushy job that she was hella under qualified for because *gasp* recession and people with actual college degrees and/or previous work experience were better qualified than she. She actually fucking bitched about that, swear to Christ.
I just couldn't get behind a woman whom I had absolutely zero respect for.
And just for shits and giggles
Couldn't finish this hot mess.
The heroine is, frankly, fucking useless. A former beauty queen who grew up extremely wealthy, her life falls apart after her husband divorces her. Divorces suck, that's a given, and I really don't want to blame the victim here but the woman deserved it. She has the personality of a rain soaked cardboard box and while I really couldn't care less one way or another how women choose to live their lives, if you're going to give it all up and be a housewife/stay at home mom, then own it. There's no shame in doing so. Anyone who's had to spend a week taking care of a newborn will tell you it's exhausting. But not only doesn't the heroine own her decision to stay home (her husband obviously didn't force her), after her marriage falls apart, she blames him for her lack of any marketable traits.
Umm.. Plenty of women go back to school after having children. Hell, plenty of single mothers go to school while pregnant/raising their children. I couldn't stand her whining and how she blamed everything wrong in her life on her ex. Not that anything was really wrong to begin with.
Boohoo, you shopped the entirety of your marriage instead of learning how to type. Poor you, you were busy attending society functions/charity balls instead of learning how to file. Cry me a fucking river. She's a fucking beauty queen from a wealthy family and has a huge divorce settlement from the man she stopped giving a shit about years ago. She has terrific sisters, a loving father (who she blames for everything wrong in her life too) and a son she supposedly loves but not really since he hadn't even appeared onscreen with her by the time I gave up on this shit.
I couldn't stand her constant bitching about her nonexistent problems and her supposed low self esteem (she proclaimed to suffer from low self esteem after discovering her husband's affairs but the very next chapter, she uses her beauty/charm to humiliate a man). I probably could've been more empathetic but the woman never took responsibility for anything. I mean, at one point she even blamed her husband for divorcing her even though she admitted to knowing about and allowing him his affairs. Then she went to an employment agency and got pissed because they wouldn't bend over backwards and give her a cushy job that she was hella under qualified for because *gasp* recession and people with actual college degrees and/or previous work experience were better qualified than she. She actually fucking bitched about that, swear to Christ.
I just couldn't get behind a woman whom I had absolutely zero respect for.
And just for shits and giggles
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