Title: Apocalipstick Author: Sue Margolis type of book: Fiction call number: Fic

This book is strong in character.

Summary:
Journalist Rebecca Fine doesn't want to be a beauty columnist. In fact if it wasn't for a pregnant friend, she wouldn't be one. She really would love to be an investigative reporter.

Her love life has also been lacking quite a bit (the last guy she dated had a tendency to talk through a wooden dummy), though her Grandma Rose keeps trying to fix that by posting Rebecca's email address on such sites as jewishdr.com. Then she meets Max Stoddard, fellow journalist who comes to work at the same magazine as Rebecca. Is he for real or just stringing her along?

To make life even more interesting, Rebecca's best friend's husband is having "willy-nilly" problems (which, as an "agony aunt," her friend should be able to handle since she has no problem telling others what to do) -- and her father has finally found a new love: Rebecca's old high school nemesis, who moves in with her for a few weeks.

And during all this, she finally comes upon her big break in investigative reporting

I would NOT recommend this book!

Why not?
More talk about sex than even I care to hear. Too much going on and not always cohesively. I actually can't believe I finished reading this book. I did tell my sister-in-law to skip this book and suggested a couple of others.

Other suggested reading:

Looking for fiction where the main character is a single Jewish woman in her late 20s - early 30s? Try Jennifer Weiner's books: Good in Bed and In Her Shoes.

Employee Initials: ALSM Review Date: May 2003

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