The Blonde Diaries

Chick Lit Review: Pink Slip Party

I wrote about a month ago how I wanted to start reviewing/discussing chick lit novels as I have yet to find a blog or forum that fills that niche and is active. I recently sat down and read Pink Slip Party by Cara Lockwood. I found this book at my library book sale for $1 and the tag line seemed cute: When you lose your job, can your mind be far behind? so I figured let’s go.

Pink Slip Party is a book about Jane McGregor, BA art, who recently loses her job designing my favorite office supply - post it notes. Not only does she get laid off but she also gets dumped by her boyfriend/Company VP on the same exact day. This book follows Jane as she goes through the process of finding herself, a job she enjoys, and love again. In between, we see Jane and her friends plot an office break in to wreck havoc on their former employer, Jane get arrested on drug charges, her apartment over taken by her friends, coworkers, ex-boyfriend and groupies, as well as see her trying to build a relationship with the least expected guy.

In total honesty, I thought this book was just ok. I enjoyed the author’s humor which was used throughout the book. I thought the story was a little weak and the characters were hard to like. I would have liked to see Jane stand up for herself more instead of being the pushover that she was but then again that was a major part of her character development - going from a pushover to a stronger person like her mother did in the book. I felt that there were some loose ends that never really got resolved. What happened to the charges against her? Where did Missy go? Why didn’t anyone turn Missy in? Why didn’t anyone enroll in drug rehab? Each of these would have made me feel better ending the book but I will say I was pleased with the way it ended. We saw Jane find a job she loved as well as a new boyfriend. Jane started to take control over her life and seemed to be heading in the right direction.

Overall I’d give this book 3 out of 5 stars and would recommend it to others for a light read and possibly reread it at a later date. I’d probably recommend reading it before reading the other well-known (and well-loved) books like Confessions of a Shopaholic or The Devil Wears Prada.