The Devil in the Junior League: A Novel
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
The Junior League of Willow Creek, Texas, is tres exclusive. Undesirables need not apply. Fredericka Mercedes Hildebrand Ware (Frede to her friends) is a member beyond reproach...until her life begins to unravel. When her husband betrays her, steals her money, and runs off to places unknown, it's something Frede would rather keep under wraps. The last thing she needs is to become fodder for the JLWC gossip mill. And to make matters worse, there's only one person in town who stands a chance at helping her get revenge: Howard Grout, a tasteless, gold-chain-wearing lawyer who has bought his way into Frede's tony neighborhood. But there's a price: She has to get his tacky, four-inch-stiletto-and-pink-spandex-wearing wife Nikki into the Junior League.
Linda Francis Lee has written an hysterical novel about the creme de la creme of Texas society, the lengths to which one woman goes to bring her cheating husband to justice, and how taking on what seems like a "Mission Impossible" can change you in ways you could never have imagined.
Linda Francis Lee
LINDA FRANCIS LEE is a native Texan now living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, steps from the Dakota Apartment Building. Linda's writing career began in college when she published her first article. But after graduating she was sidetracked from writing when she was offered a job teaching probability and statistics. Later she found her way back to her first love, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution called her breakout novel, Blue Waltz, "absolutely stunning." Now the author of more than twenty books that are published in sixteen countries around the world, when Linda isn't writing she loves to run in Central Park and spend time with her husband, family, and friends.
Related to The Devil in the Junior League
Related ebooks
The Ex-Debutante: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5LoveHampton: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There's Cake in My Future Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Dangerous Age Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Nanny Returns: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5My Ex-Best Friend: A Novel of Suburbia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Polite Company: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMisery Loves Cabernet: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Switcheroo Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Celebutantes: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Social Lives: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Young Wives Club: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Four Wives: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil You Know: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There Goes the Bride: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Southern Charm: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hollywood Assistant Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Palm Beach Wife: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Bro-Magnet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Run Catch Kiss: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Man I Should Have Married Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Finishing Touches Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fashionably Late Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Late Night Talking: A Novel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Something Blue for Sophie Drew Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bachelorette Party: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flavor of the Month Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bergdorf Blondes Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Pretty in Ink Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Contemporary Women's For You
Heart Bones: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Women (Seasons Edition -- Winter) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love and Other Words Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Eve Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5None of This Is True: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ugly Love: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Birds: Erotica Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Then She Was Gone: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unhoneymooners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hopeless Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything's Fine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Lost Names Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Night Road: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Women Talking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Handmaid's Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Confess: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5November 9: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House Is on Fire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Storyteller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Missing Girls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret Book of Flora Lea: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The True Love Experiment Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Flight: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Devil in the Junior League
20 ratings15 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I listened to the audio version of this book and loved it. The narrator was spot on for the Texas I grew up in. Just a bundle of fun from beginning to end.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The book started out ok, not very funny but readable.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Better than expected. I picked this up at the library and didn't expect a whole lot, but the story was more engaging and the main character much more likable than I expected. I'd look for the next book by this author.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Just got bored after a while - didn't finish.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm realizing that funny Southern lit makes good pleasure reading for me while in grad school, and this book fits the bill. Nothing deep here, more like cotton candy. This book made me glad that my Junior League chapter wasn't so hard to get into! Maybe the whole story was exaggerated for fiction, but it was pretty funny!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kinda boring until you get to the middle of the story, then it gets really good. Hard to put it down!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Of course, Texans are larger than life in their stories and in general. This story centers on the perfect "Southern" lady with impeccable manners, lifestyle, and clothes. Then a carpetbagger, in the form of a misguided mistress of a wayward husband threatens all Frede holds dear. The story starts slowly and does not gather steam until the final chapters. Frede lists may be cute to some, but become boring and trite as the book progresses. And of course, the book is being adapted into a movie with Jennifer Garner producing and maybe starring in the movie.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A fun,light, escape, read in one day.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I couldn't even finish this book. Too snooty, I think.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Eh. Irritating. While I know that people like Frede and her compadres certainly exist, it just seemed too...much.The only thing that allowed me to continue reading this (and give it a rating of three stars) was at the point, early on, that I decided to read this as a satire. If that wasn't the author's intention, sorry, but I did finish it that way.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5when did fiction get this good? seriously? when did this happen? i grew up with these people, and I am astonished!this book will lead me to a new section of the bookstore.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I got this book after reading a few very positive reviews. (esp. Entertainment Weekly which gave it an A-) I was so disappointed. I was really looking forward to a fun chick lit book - but MAN this book was inane. None of it made sense (hello?! the husband committed fraud - I am not familiar with Texas law - but I find it impossible to believe that there would be no legal recourse for someone who was misled the way the main character was. Beyond the total preposterousness of plot of the novel - I found the characters impossible to relate to and frankly not believable. Instead of being the fluffy quick read I had hoped for - I found myself dreading to pick it up again because I knew it was going to be so contrived.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Cute. The Devil in the Junior League is Lee's fun (if highly exaggerated) look at the world of Texas socialites. Full of humor and hyperbole, I found it to be a fun summer read, but even in that capacity, it left me wanting.The dialogue and dialect (even definitions are provided, for the tres lowerclass) had me in stitches, and as for the action, if you love a good backstabber, you will find yourself right at home in these pages. At times, though, it gets excessive. I found myself wondering how many more multi-page descriptions of the lead character getting ready to go out, right down to the pearl earrings and the length of her bath, I was going to have to read. (In addition -- and having spent significant time down there, this was news to me -- rich Southern ladies absolutely shun the wearing of color). The protagonist is not without a heart, of course. Much of the story is sort of a "to sir with love" for the rich youknowwhat set, with the leading lady taking on a low-class woman as a personal charge, in order to make her Junior League Material. However, after the way this woman is treated by the belittling League members, left running away in tears at nearly every other page, and after she herself admits that she hates the club and the whole process, I was left scratching my head as to why she still wanted to persist in this pursuit. The Devil in the Junior League is a funny, girlfight-ridden book. However, while I expected the characters to be lacking in depth, I was surprised it was missing from the plot.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I loved this book!!! Not just about some rich witch, this book has heart.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Frede finds that being perfect doesn't always prevent bad things from happening to you. A member of the Willow Creek Junior League, her life is perfect until..Chick Lit for the 30+