Customer Reviews

Scruples Two

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I first read this book around age 15, and it has impacted my life more than a piece of commercial fiction should: so much that I studied abroad in Paris to be like Billy Ikehorn! This book is a delicious read, rife with beautiful people and amazing locations. Krantz does a wonderful job of creating believable, delightful characters, and her command of setting and plot is no less. Though a lot of people may dismiss this book (and her others, which are also wonderful) as "sex and shopping," "commerical fiction," or "an embossed cover read," Judith Krantz is a very good writer. So many commercial books are poorly written, so the plot (which may be good) drowns underneath pedantic language. Not so with Scruples Two! Krantz is a Wellesly grad, which may have something to do with that. I've given this to some of my friends and we all love it, even having been English majors who read some pretty heavy lit. Buy this book, it's sure to delight!

This book & the one before it takes you back...they are fun reads. I enjoyed the follow up with the characters & dare to say it was just as good, if not better than the original

I am a huge Judith Krantz fan mostly because of this series. The characters she created in Scruples only come more alive in this book. The addition of the new charachters only make the story more interesting. Krantz has done a fabulous job of creating a sequel. This book will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time and you won't want to put it down. Gigi will be your new best friend and you can only love Billy and Spider more after the heartache they go through. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in reading Krantz. Of course I would recommend reading the whole series from start to finish. Scruples and Scruples Two take the cake, but Lovers is also a great follow up.

Scruples 2 is even BETTER than the 1st. If you like the 1st one, you'll love this one! Billy is at it again, this time she takes drastic measures. You'll meet Gigi Orsini in this book and you'll fall in love with her and her best friend Sasha Nevsky. Also appearing is Zach, Sasha's older brother. This book will have you on the edge of your seat! I even managed to read it on the bus! It's sooo good, you'll be screaming for a sequel!

I hated it & loved it! At one point I got so angry I put the book down, but I couldn't leave it there. The characters kept calling me back. So, the next day I picked it up again. I'm glad I did. On the whole I did like it better than "Scruples."

I was infuriated when I read this book!

Krantz starts off by telling us the lead characters from Scruples were divorced and that a favorite character in that first book had died. This was all to set up the unlikely and unwelcome relationship of the surviving spouses.

Hated that - just HATED that.

The resulting "romance" was made unbelievable simply because both the surviving characters had shed the most appealing character traits that made the first book so good.

Awful - a true and absolute slap in the face to the fans of Ms. Krantz's first book about Billy. Krantz should be slapped herself.

I was unable to listen to the entire tape because I had difficulty 'hearing' the story. The woman chosen to narrate the book has a voice that is somewhat deep and gravelly that I found I had to really concentrate on instead of relaxing and letting the words flow over me as I do with most other audiotapes. At the beginning of the tape, music played in the background - which some people may like for the effect, but it was even more difficult to hear the narrator.