Calm, Cool & Adjusted (Spa Girls Series #3) [Paperback]

Kristin Billerbeck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2006

Best friends since Johnny Depp wore scissors for hands, "The Spa Girls" live very separate lives, but stay in touch with routine visits to California's Spa Del Mar. The third novel in the Spa Girls Series™ focuses on Silicon Valley chiropractor Poppy Clayton, who is as calm, cool and adjusted as they come…Or is she? Known for her bad fashion sense, a love for all things natural, and the inability to get a second date, Poppy is beginning to wonder if she might be misaligned herself. Her route to self discovery will be an unnatural one-a plastic surgeon, a house in Santa Cruz and a wedding date from the dark side. It's all enough to send a girl-and her gal pals-running for the spa.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (October 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591453305
• ISBN-13: 978-1591453307
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #915,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kristin Billerbeck is the author of more than 30 novels, including "What a Girl Wants" and the Ashley Stockingdale and Spa Girls Series. She is a fourth-generation Californian, who loves her state and the writing fodder it provides. Learn more at www.KristinBillerbeck.com

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Chick Lit, November 8, 2006

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Calm, Cool & Adjusted (Spa Girls Series #3) (Paperback)

Poppy Clayton knows who she is and it has nothing to do with what she wears, or does it? Just because she cares about the environment and refuses to buy new clothes doesn't necessarily mean she is clinging to unfinished business in her past. And the fact that she never goes on a second date probably means she is selective, not that she can't get the second date if she wanted to, right?

But, when her father dumps a house on her that should be condemned and her antithesis showers her with attention, Poppy wonders if her friends are right and she's lost herself. While her desperation scale ramps up, so does her need to exert control even if the only thing she has control over is how many miles she can run over her lunch hour. The question is, can she find herself before she loses it completely?

In this third installment of the Spa Girls series, readers finally get to learn what makes Poppy tick. And what has always come across as a little eccentric now looks rather obsessive--which is good, because I've always related well with her friends, the Spa Girls, who sneak truffles behind her back. Who really has the self-control to always drink wheat grass in the face of organic chocolate?

Kristin Billerbeck has breathed life into another flawed but loveable character. As usual, once I started reading, I may as well wipe the calendar free of any other obligations, because putting the book down is not an option.

Armchair Interviews says: No one does chick lit like Kristin Billerbeck.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars calm, cool, adjusted, January 9, 2007

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S. Mynatt "Hisgirl" (Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Calm, Cool & Adjusted (Spa Girls Series #3) (Paperback)

This was the last book of a trilogy. I thought it was the best out of all three. I guess because i liked the character in it, and felt that she was more real than the other lead characters in the other two books. Still out of Kristin Billerbecks books, I liked her first books... Shes out of control, ect... This trilogy wasn't her best.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars CHISTIAN CHICK LIT, October 11, 2006

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Libby "ChristianBookAddict" (TheLandofManyPotatoes) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Calm, Cool & Adjusted (Spa Girls Series #3) (Paperback)

This is the third book in Billerbeck's "Spa Girls" series. Poppy's story is the one depicted in this novel. I loved the first two books in this series, so it was just natural for me to pick this one up as well. I can't say I loved it as much as Lilly or Morgan's stories, but nevertheless it was a good read.
I don't know exactly what it was about this book that left me feeling a like something was missing, I enjoyed it, but it was definitely not one of my favorite books I have read recently.