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Secrets of a Shoe Addict | 
 enlarge | Author: Beth Harbison
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 25886
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0312348266
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312348267
ASIN: 0312348266
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
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Product Description
Every woman has a secret. The question is: How far will she go to make sure it stays secret? Abbey Walsh never wanted anyone to find out about her shady past. After all, she’s the wife of a minister now, living an exemplary life. That is, until someone shows up from her past with blackmail in mind . . . Tiffany Vanderslice Dreyer never dreamed that she’d find herself up to her new designer sunglasses in credit card debt from one mad moment of a shopping spree. She’s an upstanding wife and mother with the perfect marriage . . . right? Loreen Murphy hadn’t meant to hire a male prostitute in Las Vegas. It was all just a big, stupid, and expensive misunderstanding. . . . Abbey, Tiffany, and Loreen are each in need of thousands of dollars and fast. Tiffany’s sister, Sandra, has the perfect idea. It’s fast, it’s easy, it’s legal, and it’s the secret that kept her shoe addiction alive. It’s the perfect plan. . . . In this deliciously sassy novel, three very different women bond when they find themselves in more than one kind of trouble. It’s the story of how sometimes you have a secret that can get you in---and out---of dire straits. It’s about romance, friendship, kids, revenge, affairs, and, most of all, a love of the well-heeled things in life.
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Excellent follow-up to her first winner! September 1, 2008
This follow-up to "Shoe Addicts Anonymous" maintains the same lively pace as the first book, introduces some great new characters and brings back one of the best ones. Following the same plot of women bonding a friendship and sharing each other's secrets and troubles, "Secrets of a Shoe Addict" delivers another good piece of chick lit, although the title is a total misnomer since the three women have nothing to do with shoes.
Loreen, Abbey, and Tiffany each encounter serious troubles on a PTA trip to Las Vegas. Their problems don't stay there, however, and they forge a friendship in order to earn big money...FAST! With the help of Tiffany's sister, Sandra (from the first book), they become "phone actresses" -- another term for phone sex operator. Along the way to making money, they make friends and deal with blackmail, hidden pasts, infidelity, and finding love.
Read this book for the fun of it. Don't spend time analyzing, questioning, or second-guessing. If nothing else, you'll develop an appreciation for expensive shoes.
 No where near as good as the first one August 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After reading the first book and really enjoying it, I ran out to get the second one.
This one is no where near as entertaining as the first one. The characters in both books have flaws, but the ones in this book are not really that likeable. This story was slow and unlike the first one I had no problem putting it down.
In the first book the plight of the main characters were more believable to me, (stuggling with finances, bad marriages, bad work environment etc.) but in this book the character's problems started with really unrelatable situations. ("accidentally" hiring a male prostitute, "accidentally" gambling away 5000$, "accidentally" spending 5000$ in a store) I can relate to the problems the woman had in the first book, but the woman in this book did things that were so out there it couldn't relate.
That said it was entertaining enough that I gave it 3 stars. It's worth reading if you've got nothing else to read.
 Recommended to fans of the popular television series and movie "Sex and the City" as a spiritual offshoot of the genre August 14, 2008
Secrets of a Shoe Addict (7 CDs, 9 hours) is an beautifully recorded unabridged audiobook by Beth Harbison about three female friends who become bosom buddies when tragicomic (well, mostly comic) events threaten their formerly stable lives. One accidentally hired a male prostitute; another, a minister's wife, is being blackmailed; the third is a wife and mother teetering on the edge of a bottomless pit of credit card debt. A lighthearted novel of romance, friendship, struggling to raise kids, revenge, and the many dimensions of love that is superbly narrated by Orlagh Cassidy, Secrets of a Shoe Addict is a wonderfully engaging audiobook experience, especially recommended to fans of the popular television series and movie "Sex and the City" as a spiritual offshoot of the genre.
 No, no, no... July 18, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was such a huge let-down. I'd read Shoe Addicts Anonymous and loved it, because I'm a fan of the chick-lit genre, however, this book was difficult to get through. Ordinarily, if a book doesn't interest me within the first chapter, I put it down. But because I'd read Beth Harbison's first book, I thought this one would be equally if not more fun.
False.
The book was dull, the characters were unbelievable, and the scenes/circumstances, were boring.
Skip this book if possible, but if you must read it... buy it used.
Secrets worth sharing July 14, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is not a straight sequel in that only one of the characters from the first book is in it for any significant portion. As I read Shoe Addicts Anonymous quite a while ago, and all the characters didn't stick in my mind, the direction if this book was not a problem. The characters don't revolve around shoes at all, except to discuss how one's shoes can help a woman feel good about herself! Seriously the story gets into more depth about mistakes women may make, choices they live with, and the decisions they face as a result. Though some of the scenarios were not typical (sleeping with a male prostitute, blackmail due to a sordid past, becoming a phone sex operator, outlandishly weird dates), all in all, readers will be able to identify with the feelings the characters expressed. From low self confidence to fear of failure or rejection to achievement at doing something well, we all have been there at one time or another.
This book is an easy read and can stand on its own or read as a sequel. It is an enjoyable way to spend some time.
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