Excerpt: Ladies! This is your wake up call to take get your financial house in order. Stop wasting money on red soled high heels, put that money in savings! Drop that high priced latte right now. Don’t wait for a rich prince to come and save you! Here’s a passage from The Bloody Mary Club, Page 28 where my lead character Gina gives her ladies a wakeup call for being lazy about their finances:
“You’ve all grown up thinking you can’t handle this stuff and if you’re a good girl, some big strong man will come along and take care of it for you. Wake up. It’s not going to happen. Without this club, you’ll be greeters at Wal-Mart when you’re seventy,” Gina plucked a shrimp from her drink and jiggled it at Vivi. “Your legal secretary job isn’t secure.”
Vivi picked imaginary lint off her slinky top.
“What happens when your on-man-shop lawyer is thrown in jail for tax evasion? You’re pushing fifty, who’s going to hire a legal secretary who types on an electric typewriter and uses shorthand?”
Vivi pouted.
Gina moved onto Sarah busy snacking on peanuts: “And you can’t stretch your paycheck. You’re floating your bills. If mommy and daddy didn’t help out, you’d have no phone service, electricity or water. What are you going to do when they aren’t around? You think you’ll inherit their money? Statistics aren’t on your side. Mom and the General will need that money for their nursing home care. Your ex will get the last laugh as he skis down the slopes in Zermatt after having a wine and raclette meal paid for from his impenetrable trust fund.”
Sarah picked at her cuticles with one eye stuck in a half blink. “You forgot Joanie, she’s a mess.”
Review Rating: 4 LIGHTNING BOLTS
Review: The Bloody Mary club is a fun, engaging book that I couldn't keep myself away from. The story is based around Gina, who has this idea to form a club with her friends. Gina is this smart financial guru type person and she's so fun, easy to relate to, and fairly likable. I enjoy Gina's character. She's well rounded, smart, intriguing and is a great lead. She's always thinking of her friends and stays true.
The story itself is fun, intriguing. I like Ms. Dyke's voice and found the book easy to read. There are terms that I didn't understood, but are integral to the story as it makes it more realistic, even if I couldn't quite follow along a few times. Overall, though, I found this to be a good read, and I'm interested in reading other works by this author in the future.
Author Bio:
Debbie Dyke is a novelist and businesswoman from Alexandria, Virginia, and has a background in military intelligence, the stock market, executive recruiting and writing. An Army brat, she’s lived in Turkey, France, Germany, Italy, Albania and Holland. She graduated from the American High School in Naples, Italy then attending University of Maryland, Munich Campus. She graduated from Georgetown University and holds a Bachelors of Science and Masters degree in National Security. Debbie has two grown children, Lisa and Jordan and has been married to Michael for over thirty wonderful years. Debbie has written 5 screenplays, one Wall Street calendar and two novels.
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This sounds like a fun book and who knows....it might even have some good financial advice...I've heard the "drop the expensive latte" before....sad but so true...I can make coffee for a fraction of the cost of a Starbucks latte at home...sigh....Thanks for the spotlight
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