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Title: Like toilet paper -- use it and forget it
Review: This book was a page-turner but I really disliked it. All the characters are upper-class (after all, they meet at an exclusive spa that costs some ungodly amount) and the challenges they face are not, for the most part, of a life-or-death nature. Interesting characters are introduced to move the story along and then dropped as unneccesary, the reader can see plot developments from a mile off, there is no real tension to the various plots, and everyone lives happily ever after. Vast amounts of money make "happily ever after" a lot easier to attain. The moral of the book seemed to be that friends are nice to have but only if they are really rich. I read "Domestic Pleasures" several years ago, enjoyed it immensely and recommended it to several friends who felt similarly about it. Other Gutcheon books that I have read ("The New Girls," "Saving Grace," and "Five Fortunes") have been tremendous let-downs. I think I'm giving up.
