Title: Like a Frappuccino for Your Brain
Product review: Judge this as a frothy formula mystery, not as a rival to Arthur Conan Doyle or Elizabeth George, and it's delicious in a purely-empty-calories way. As chick-lit heroines go, fashion stylist Dallas O'Connor is smart, sensible, stands in her own light remarkably seldom, and doesn't run around being "appealing" or "winsome" by behaving in a dim-witted and self-destructive manner. She's visibly good at her job -- shows competence, doesn't just tell you she's good.This is well-written for genre -- it's not gushy or annoyingly repetitive, characters maintain consistent voices, and the prose style doesn't get in the way of enjoying the plot. Does it have the depth of, say, a V.I. Warshawski story? No. But it's about fashion. Pretty clothes. Pretty people. Pretty sets. Mildly absurd.You will not be a better person for reading this book, but if you're looking for light entertainment to take your mind off the world's problems, you could do so much worse.
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