Jill A. Davis

This one is totally snarky and hilarious. I can identify with the main character, Ruby Capote, and many of her funny personality quirks. She's indecisive, and a little obsessive. Okay, a lot obsessive. Here's a quote from the book that I think is rather meaningful, at least to me: "But the world is filled with things to want and not want - so how is it that I still can't put my finger on what I do want?"

Ruby Capote decides to leave her boyfriend and her boring job and move to New York. There she finds a new job, a tasty boss and enjoys weekly poker games with her eclectic group of friends. Then we find out what happens when the job gets hard and romance leads to complications with said tasty boss.

Does it sound like a dozen other similar book premises yet? Girls' Poker Night is nothing special when it comes to the plot. It is well written, smart and funny, which is all I really ask from a show more chick lit book. It was an entertaining read, but nothing I would recommend or pick up again. Davis does give her characters more depth than most similar books. They have actual feelings, back stories, problems, etc. So if you're looking for a light read this would be a good fit. show less

Really enjoy Jill.
Light, breezey, yet surprisingly deep.
Emily Rhodes is having a crisis: job, life, love.
Her dyfunctional family needs her and at the same time she can't move forward in her life.
Told in brilliant short chapters, her writing is enganging and realistic and I just love it.

It's not that I didn't like the book, I just never really got invested in it. The family dynamics were weird to me, not in a quirky, gotta love em sort of way, just quirky what the hell. They're all these separate entities, with very thin links to one another. As someone enmeshed in family, and in everyone's business, I just couldn't identify. Beyond that though, I couldn't really glean who these characters were. The dialogue was mostly inner, and we see the world through this woman's eyes. show more Which is fine sometimes, but I just found myself drifting from the story, not really caring what went on. The whole emotional detachment translated for me as exactly that, and I simply could not care. But there are some really witty lines in here, as you'd expect from a former writer of the David Letterman show. show less