Very well written modern chick-lit
Playground Mafia by Sarah Tucker
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5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed Sep 9, 2009
Very well written modern chick-lit – it’s fast paced, witty, has the “right amount” of mush and romance. Caroline and her five year old son Ben have left their past and moved to a quaint new neighborhood where Caroline’s two childhood best friends (Eva and Heather) live. Though Caroline aspires to focus on being a single mom and making a success of it, romance catches up with her (as it must – it’s chick-lit after all!). But to make her life more challenging, there are a bunch of scary political moms in Ben’s school PTA – the playground mafia. There’s already an unspoken animosity between the mafia and Caroline’s best friends – and things are spiced up when the mafia wants to enlist Caroline on their side. Drama in real life ensues.
All characters are true to life, and you can identify with them in some aspect or other. Even the mafia have “real” personalities and they’re not painted as simple-minded hateful monsters. I also liked the interesting profession chosen for Caroline – a graphologist who makes a living by reading people’s handwriting and assessing their character traits.
Currently re-reading this book for the second time – definitely worth buying.
