For Heaven's sake...Never let God get in the way of a good story. Good Christian Bitches is the lighthearted tale of Amanda Vaughn, a recently divorced mother of two. To get a fresh start, she moves back to the affluent Dallas neighborhood where she grew up. In an Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Desperate Housewives on steroids style, her old friends are already out to destroy her reputation. In the whirling midst of salacious gossip, Botox, and fraud, Amanda turns to those who love her and the faith she's always known. Will the Good Christian Bitches get the best of her, or will everyone see that these GCBs are as counterfeit as their travel jewelry?
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Dallas native Kim Gatlin has spent most of her professional life in the fields of charitable fundraising and commercial real estate title sales. She lives in the Park Cities area of Dallas with her two children, Austin and Lauren. This is her first book.
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46 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
sorry I read this,
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This review is from: Good Christian Bitches (Hardcover)
I lost intrest in the machinations of the shallow protagonists of this strange story early on, but kept reading thinking there would be a turning point and at least one redeeming character, or value, would be introduced. It never happened. The value system of every single character is based on money, "marriage-ability" and expensive clothing labels. This book made me, as the reader, feel sullied for having read it.
39 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Got Half-way thru it,
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Frankly, I bought this book because of the title. I saw it mentioned on TV, and as a church-going Christian that likes a good laugh, I thought I would find it here. But after a brief mention at the beginning, as of up to page 143, where I decided I'd had enough, there was nothing about "Good" or "Christian". Church was only mentioned in passing. The "B's" of the title turned out to be the socialites of Dallas, and their fear of losing their husbands to the returnee from California, Amanda. Dallas sure sounds like hell on earth. Full of liars, backstabbers, thieves, and nut cases. And those are just the women. Not a single likable person in the bunch, not even Amanda's children. Her children are mouthy and rude, and she laughs when they talk back. Her nine year old daughter calls everyone in Dallas "fat." Her son says Dallas "sucks." Amanda thinks it's all funny. I thought it was pathetic. Church isn't the center of attention here, it's the Longhorn Ball. The book should have been called "The Longhorn Ball Bitches." If you really want to read it, wait till it comes out in paperback. Save your money. I paid full price and gave up in the middle.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting if you live in Texas...if not, shallow gets old -- fast,
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For those who live in Texas, and are familiar with the prototype of "Hillside Park," the local references (and sterotypes) are a bit amusing -- at first. All the characters get old, fast. The perpetrators are on one hand, conniving, but on the other victims of the caste system into which they were born. The heroine -- well, I found it hard to feel sympathy for a woman who was raised with a gigantic silver spoon in her mouth -- even with a cheating husband. It was so formulaic...in the end, those with wealth (again) trumped those who were working for a living...not a happy ending, in my book! A truly amateurish effort.
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