Good Christian Bitches by Kim Gatlin

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I haven't been reading a lot lately because I have been so busy, but I needed a lightweight book to carry on a plane with me and Good Christian Bitches won the coveted spot in my backpack. I wanted a quick read and this definitely was one. Seriously, I read it in two days, mostly on a flight from Texas to California.

I watched the ABC remake of this book a few years ago and I loved it (in a trashy, guilty-pleasure-viewing kind of way)! I mean Kristin Chenoweth in a television show... it can't be bad! It might just be funny because I am from Texas and the women portrayed actually exist, but I think anyone can find humor somewhere in the show. So when I was checking out at B&N and needed $4 more to get free shipping and GCB was on sale, I thought I'd give it a chance. 

If you have seen the show, don't worry the script and the book are completely different. There are no spoilers in the series and the characters and their roles are even different. There are characters in the book that don't make an appearance in the show at all and vice versa. I'm still sad the show only lasted one season.

This is the first book that author Kim Gatlin wrote and it's rather obvious. I give her a pass on that though because writing a book is so difficult and I think it's great that she wrote something, got it published, and it sold enough copies to be turned into a show! I have started many novels that have just become Word documents saved to the Cloud never to become anything, but my ramblings. So you go, Kim for making your book happen!

But because this is a book review, here's the truth: I thought the characters were well-developed, maybe because there are speculations that they take after real people, but the writing was a little abrupt. I thought the endings of conversations and chapters were really abrupt, like there could have been a more natural way to end them, but instead they just stopped or were rushed to the point. I don't know if I would spend the money on a sequel if one were to come out, but for a plane read this book did the job. It is a rare time that I actually enjoyed the adaptation more than the original, but in this case I really did.

If you want a book for the pool, something fluffy to read after you've finished a tome or you really enjoy lady drama then this book will do the trick.

Love you lots,