Glitter Baby by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Glitter Baby
Book Review: I can read it over and over...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book kept me on my toes the whole time. The backstabbing mother just kept me yelling at the book, but Fleur is the one that kept me reading it. The romance between Jake and Fleur is so intense and lovely, and it will make everybody believe that throughout obstacles in life, love will make it better.Book Review: Different than I thought and I liked it
Summary: 4 Stars
I really liked this book. I agree with others who say it wasn't really the romance book they thought it would be. It was more coming of age and overcoming the personal obstacles. I couldn't put it down because I wanted to see how Fleur would develop. I was rooting for her the whole time. I liked Jake too but I wish I could have had more of him in the book, either with Fleur or without. I think any less of him and I wouldn't have understood him but as it stands I had no problem seeing what his motivations were.
I would have loved an epilogue from Fleur and Jakes POV but I loved the way the book ended. In this book I really felt that these two deserved their happy ending because of all the stuff they went through. I was as happy for them as I would have been for my real friends.
I can't recommend it enough. If you want a love story with more depth and character development get this book.
Book Review: Loved it!
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a darker story than we're used to from SEP, I found it a fascinating accounting of human nature, at times at it's worse, and at times the human spirit shone through.
People have mentioned the women as victims. I didn't see that. The mother was spineless, immature and needy, yes, but Fleur was a worthy advisory for her father once she grew up. And Fleur had a wonderfully smart, feisty friend in Kissy.
Someone mentioned pedophile: no, she was 19 when this incident took place. And her father had incestuous ideas, but he wasn't her biological father, and had never been a father figure through her growing up years. He was disgustingly creepy, manipulative, cruel and perverted, though.
Keeping in mind that it was first published in 1987, you have to allow for how the times have changed in how books and the modern woman are written. I think it's weathered the time well, though, and found it to be an engrossing read.
I loved the story and the very interesting characters.
Book Review: A real treasure
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought I had read all of Susan Elizabeth Phillips' books; I accidentally came across this title on Amazon's website and ordered it after reading the reviews. A great find! A wonderful romance in Phillips' incomparable style. Also, being tall myself, it's refreshing to read a romance about a tall heroine!!Book Review: Unfocused Mess, Unlike SEP
Summary: 2 Stars
I've read all of Susan Elizabeth Phillips's novels and I think she or her agent made a mistake in reissuing this early novel of hers. The people are very one-dimensional, with only the character traits exposed that will nudge the plot along, and few of the characters behave in a realistic way. (Why wouldn't Belinda tell Fleur that the Alexi wasn't her real father? The story she did tell her was negative about Alexi anyway.) Much of this book reminds me of Judith Krantz's work: the friendship between Fleur and Kissy is a dead ringer for that between Billy and Jessica in _Scruples_ and the nastily evil father or male relative is a standard Krantz plot -- there's even a restaurant called Orsini's! It wouldn't surprise me if Krantz was one of SEP's early influences.
Seriously not worth reading. Re-reading _Dream a Little Dream_, _Hot Shot_, _Nobody's Baby But Mine_, or _This Heart of Mine_ is a much better use of your time.