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Daddy's Girls: A Novel

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I picked this up in paperback passing through Heathrow on my way to the beach in Southern Italy. This was a great find! A thick book, but it kept me turning the pages.

The story of four successful sisters-- an actress, a lawyer/judge, an interior designer, and a magazine editor. The story follows each one, their career, loves, and the relationship with their father, a once powerful politician (House of Lords) whose appearance isn't quite reality. The ending brings an entirely new turn to the book.

Drama, mystery, love story(ies)--all rolled into one great book.

Daddy's Girls by Tasmina Perry is the story of the four powerful, successful, beautiful-but-flawed daughters of the wealthy and cruel Lord Oswald Balcon. Cate is a recently fired magazine editor with big ambitions to open her own up-scale travel/fashion magazine. Venetia is an interior decorator who longs to have a baby. She's married to a nasty closet-bisexual who seems to be doing everything in his power to keep her from realizing any of her goals. Camilla is a smart and savvy lawyer with an eye on a political position. Finally, there's Serena, a Victora Beckham type celebrity who likes to party and has an ego as big as Paris (the city, not the Hilton, though, that works too!).

Each woman comes under suspicion after their father takes a nasty fall from the ramparts of the family castle. As the story unfolds, we learn about the women's lives, loves, and the skeletons in their closets. We also learn about Lord Balcon; his shady dealings, other-worldly arrogance, and abusive relationships. We soon discover that each woman has a solid motive for wanting to push cranky old Lord Balcon off the castle walls.

Daddy's Girls is a good beach read, though it is little more than that. It is brain candy - fun, tasty, but offering little literary substance. There are flaws, too. The character development is a bit shaky. Venetia's character starts out weak and wishy-washy but ends up strong and fierce without the benefit of true character growth. We, as readers, never see the stages of her metamorphosis, just the end result. Camilla is only in the book briefly and we never get a true sense of who she is, only what she wants. Cate and Serena are the big players here, and they are interesting. Readers might be disappointed by Serena's sudden growth and the neat little way the author resolved the Tom-Serena love situation at the end.

The plot moved along at a brisk, keep you interested pace, but seemed too pat, too convenient at the end.

On the whole, Daddy's Girls was a good novel, offering readers a peek into the decadent, flawed world of the rich and narcissistic.

It was hard to put this book down. The action and the characters were very well written. Everything fell into place right up to the action filled ending.

The characters were made very clear. Everything was brought together in the end and nothing was left to questioning.

I haven't had time to read this book yet because I ordered quite a number of books to be on the safe side since I can't get very many paperbacks where I come from, but it really looks great and I'm very impressed how fast it arrived.

Daddy's Girls definately started me on my Tasmina Perry craving. I had read Jackie Collins and others like her, but they do not have the style that Tasmina Perry writes with. I love how this book takes you to the chicest locales in the world, and it is pretty thick, so the fun lasts a while. There is a climax about the girls' father and there is a classic "who done it" vibe toward the end. I loved it!! I will defiately read all the books that Ms. Perry will ever write.

The book came without a dust jacket, and I don't believe that it was mentioned missing in the description. I had purchased the book as a replacement for one that my dog destroyed from the library, and couldn't use it because it was missing the dust jacket.

This book was no longer in print. I was psyched to find it and have it be inexpensive and very quickly delivered!

I am an avid reader of all kinds of fiction...mystery, drama, love story...I read them all. I must say I truly enjoyed Ms. Perry's first novel. It is a book that was a guilty pleasure to read. Ms. Perry does a good job with outlining the main characters to a point that you find yourself rooting for them or against them. A rather long story considering the plot, but a delightful read anyway.