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Title: Girls In White Dresses

Author: Jennifer Close

Narrator: Emily Janice Card

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-15

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Ever feel like everyone but you has their life under control?

Isabella, Mary ,and Lauren feel like everyone they know has a plan, a good job, and a nice boyfriend.

Isabella, on the other hand, thinks she might hate her own boyfriend; Mary is working so hard she's hoping to get hit by a car just so she can have some time off work; and Lauren is dating a man who can't spell her first name.

All three of them have been friends since college, and now--more than ever--they need each other as they struggle through those thrilling, bewildering, what-on-earth-am-I-doing years when everyone else is getting married and they're just getting drunk.

Members Reviews:

Great read!!

I really enjoyed this book. I was hesitant, because I saw a lot of bad reviews, but the plot really appealed to me so I bought it anyway. It is hard to decide whether or not you like a book based off of reviews, because everyone relates to a different style of writing and different character development. If it helps you any, I am 20 years old, and I felt that I could really relate to the girls in this book. The story line was not overly complicated, but it was a quick read and very enjoyable. Each chapter is told in short anecdotes, and focuses on a different character. The characters are all connected in different ways, but I thought it was easy to follow.

Don't understand negativity - this book was great!

Usually my ratings are relatively in line with other ratings. In this case, however, I strongly disagree. I thought this book was amazing. It is a bit stream of consciousness, and it does not follow a strictly linear plot. However, it perfectly captures the weirdness and the somewhat fragmentary nature of those first few years after college graduation. In a lot of ways, those years are disjointed and non-linear, and Close perfectly captures that time of life. Give it a try with an open mind, knowing that it is a bit structurally different than a lot of other popular fiction. I think a decent comparison is that it is to literature what Love Actually is to movies. A bunch of vignettes that are all loosely connected but do not follow one strict plot.

Good humor, but flat characters

This book is a series of sketches linked together by various characters. I like this technique. I enjoyed many of the sketches, but some of them seemed to fall flat. I must note that the women in this book are lacking in self-esteem, and seem awfully weak in an age where we supposedly admire "strong" women. I also wonder where they went to college, since all they seem to do is drink together. The author seems to think that is cute.

Short stories

This book is a series of vignettes linking three main friends through stories of adjacent friends and a few featuring each other. Each story is triggered by a major life event in the group - break ups, engagements, bridal showers, weddings and babies - and covers their early to late 20's. The book explores what it means to be an adult and what happens when you don't follow the traditional "get married and have babies" track but everyone around you is.

The stories are relatable, especially for someone struggling to learn what being an adult really means in today's world. It's a quick read, the stories jump around and it doesn't develop the characters like a traditional novel.