Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close (a review)

 

 

 The novel Girls in White Dresses had a very real, post-graduate, quarter-life crisis feel. The real feeling, characters and story included, had a strong reality that didn’t seem forced. You could picture yourself, or your friends as characters and situations in the book. The book follows the lives of three single girls Mary, Isabella and Lauren in the trials and tribulations of careers and men. Also, the book happens to be set in New York City giving it a very Sex and the City-esqe vibe. Other characters enter and exit throughout the book, sometimes with commentary about how their life turns out and other times not, another similarity to Sex and the City.

The book rotates between tales from each girls’ perspective with no one main character, though in my opinion Isabella is the main character because it seemed that more chapters were from her point of view than the other two “main characters”. For instance, smaller gaps occurred in her life where the reader didn’t know what was happening in her life, but for the character Mary she pops in and then disappears for a time. The plot is basically of life, as the girls try to find themselves, who they want to be and what they want out of life.

One of my complaints is that the book is that it is billed as a book filled with weddings. While the book did contain a few weddings there wasn’t much in the way of the main characters being involved in the going-ons of the weddings. So in my opinion the title is a bit of a misnomer and something better suited might be Girls Post-College.  

Overall though the book was entertaining in some parts and I give it a solid B.