Reviewed by Jill Hart
Kristin Billerbeck, who has been credited with being one of the first authors to bring chick-lit to the inspirational market, is back with a brand-new title, The Trophy Wives Club. While the title may make it sound like a book for women who want to snag millionaires (or millionaires who want to snag trophy wives), the book has much more depth to it than that.
So, how can a book about trophy wives deliver any type of inspiration? The key is finding out where the title really comes from. Haley Cutler sets out to do just that. Haley is a typical trophy wife – married to a successful Hollywood producer and used to a lifestyle that includes great clothes, great hair and expensive shoes. The problem? Her Prince Charming has just walked out on her.
After seven years of living a pampered, care-free lifestyle Haley must figure out how to make it on her own. She quickly realizes that she doesn't have many marketable job skills and that the $700 Giuseppe Zanotti's she's drooling over will pay for eleven days in the not-so-high-class motel she's staying in. She also has her husband's lawyer, the remarkably handsome, but incredibly self-righteous, Hamilton Lowe to deal with. What's a girl to do?
Then she hears about a group called "The Trophy Wives Club." This sounds like the perfect place to learn how to make her ex-husband squirm and get the type of settlement she deserves. However, when she attends her first meeting, she's surprised by the attitudes of the other women in the group. They've all been through rough divorces and yet there's something peaceful about them. How can that be?
Billerbeck, author of What a Girl Wants, writes another stand-out novel for inspirational chick-lit fans. The book covers the painful topics of separation, divorce, bitterness and forgiveness. Readers of Billerbeck's popular Ashley Stockingdale series will be pleasantly surprised by this very different, yet very poignant novel.
Rating: 4/5
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