King Arthur Movie Tristan

title: Soup in the City


author: Kelly Hollingsworth

pages: 249

genre: fiction, chic lit

published: 2008

first line: Monday morning.

rated: 4 out of 5 stars

When she's not abusing credit cards, caffeine and carbohydrates, Avery St. George wonders how to penetrate Manhattan's unforgiving outer shell. If she could just lose a few pounds and squeeze into the right labels, her friends might actually invite her to some of their A-list functions.



But then Avery loses her lucrative hedge fund job and has much bigger questions to ponder. What happens to girls who spend all their money on Lanvin platform pumps and have nothing left for bus fare? Can one person really survive on twenty dollars a week? Has anyone ever died from the pressure of skull-crunching debt?

As Avery rolls up her sleeves and sheds the excesses of her old life, she discovers that authenticity is the best accessory. And that sometimes you have to lose everything to find yourself.

Yale Graduate Avery St. George lives in a posh apartment in the city. She earns
$25thousand a month in risiduals because she raised $80million dollars from a bank that invested in a hedge fund she referred.
Her BBF Courtney, is basically a snob and not really a true friend to Avery. So to impress Courtney, Avery makes up a fake rich boyfriend and buys herself a Russian Sable coat, that she pays $50thousand for, and pretends that her imaginary rich man gave it to her. Big mistake Avery!



Soon after, she finds out that her hedge fund will abruptly stop, since the company has filed a redemption notice and that basically means Avery won't get paid anymore. Now Avery owes staggering amounts of money, like some $50thousand to the bank, plus thousands on her maxed out credit cards, and that's not including the sable coat she just purchased.

'As I walk home, I fall into a deep depression bordering on clinical. I'm certain there's nothing worse than plunking down seventeen hundred dollars for a dress that doesn't fit after brazenly lying about your profession. Well, actually perhaps what's worse is to return to your apartment building painfully cloaked in the realization that, although it's not Halloween, you've been running amok in New York City in a Holly Golightly costume.

All afternoon. In broad daylight. On Fifth Avenue.'

Avery seems hopeless at first, she's so lost. All she does is buy empty purchases, to make herself feel good for the moment, and winds up in this incredible debt. The way Avery spends money is insane. And it finally catches up to her. She realizes she can't afford to live like Carrie Bradshaw from Sex And the City, she realizes not even Carrie can afford to live like Carrie.




Avery winds up basically homeless, and has to stay at her friends apartment until she can get back on her feet. She ends up looking for work, and finds herself along the way. She realizes the way she was living was all wrong and decides to turn her life around. I liked Avery's character, I liked how she was able to come out of the mess she was in and become a better person because of it.



I enjoyed Soup in the City from page one. I like the references toSex And The City, which is a favorite show of mine.

This was a fun and entertaining read. I really enjoyed it. Once I began reading, it was hard to put down. If you're looking for a quick and funny read, with a great plot and likeable characters, pick this one up.





I had no idea what a Russian Sable Coat was. So I googled it.

This is it:



I just wanted to make sure I posted a pic of the coat :P

Click here to see the coat listed on Amazon.com

Special thanks to Kelly Hollingsworth for sending me her book to read & review.



visit the author's website: http://www.soupinthecity.com/


Kelly has kindly granted me a blog interview, click here for that