The Dirty Book Club by Lisi Harrison
(Format used for this read: Print–hardback)
Our last read for our book club was pretty deep and heavy (my pick…big shocker there 🤣) so we decided something MUCH lighter and MUCH different would be good for this month.
Aaaannnnnddd so we went with this 🤣
(It’s not entirely what you think!)
Here is the summary:
“M.J. Stark’s life is picture-perfect—she has her dream job as a magazine editor, a sexy doctor boyfriend, and a glamorous life in New York City. But behind her success, there is a debilitating sense of loneliness. So when her boss betrays her and her boyfriend offers her a completely new life in California, she trades her cashmere for caftans and gives it a try. Once there, M.J. is left to fend for herself in a small beach town, with only the company of her elderly neighbor Gloria and an ocean that won’t shut up.
One afternoon, M.J. discovers that Gloria has suddenly moved to Paris with her friends to honor a fifty-year-old pact. And in lieu of a goodbye, she’s left a mysterious invitation to a secret club—one that only reads erotic books. Curious, M.J. accepts and meets the three other hand-selected club members. As they bond over naughty bestsellers and the shocking letters they inherited from the original club members, the four strangers start to divulge the intimate details of their own lives…and as they open up, they learn that friendship might just be the key to rewriting their own stories: all they needed was to find each other first.”
Okay…so this book wasn’t exactly well written and some of the material was a little predictable…
BUT it is a book about the bonds of friendship between women and how those bonds pull you thru some really horrible and also some really wonderful things.
It’s also a book about love and marriage and romance…and how that looks different for each person.
The character development was meh and I didn’t really get attached to any of them…but they were likeable enough.
Oh…and yes…this story also talks PLENTY about sex… and talks about NOVELS about sex…in serious ways but also lighthearted and funny ways…
But if that kind of topic makes your cheeks turn red, I can guarantee that this is NOT the book for you!
My opinion is the book is okay 🤷♀️
This book could be a perfect poolside summer read…
Except the raised eyebrows you may get from the title may not be what you want🤣
This definitely is not my genre of reading material…I’m ready to go back to the heavy and intricate 🤣