The Solomon Sisters Wise Up (Red Dress Ink) [Bargain Price] [Paperback]

Melissa Senate (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2003

Between the reality of being six weeks pregnant by a guy she's dated for two months and the fantasy of pushing a baby stroller down Columbus Avenue with a wedding ring on her finger were a lot of possibilities for twenty-nine-year old Manhattan publishing peon Sarah Solomon. Will the baby's father run screaming for the nearest subway ...or pop the question?

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The Solomon family has never been close, and Ally and Sarah have never warmed to Zoe, their father's daughter by his second wife. But when they find themselves all living at their father's penthouse apartment, each grappling with a personal crisis, they quickly realize they're going to have to get along. Ally, a successful lawyer who desperately wants a child, caught her husband cheating on her with her Pilates instructor. Sarah is pregnant with the child of a guy she's only been dating for a month and a half. And Zoe, a relationship expert, just lost her own boyfriend over her inability to commit. To make matters worse, their distant father is about to marry a woman half his age, and Zoe's mother seems to have come unhinged over his impending nuptials. Senate scored high with See Jane Date (2001), and she now presents another winner that will have readers cheering for the warm, witty, and lovable Solomon sisters as they wise up, find romance, and learn to love each other. Kristine Huntley
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"Senate's prose is fresh and lively." -- Boston Globe --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-10: 037325041X
• ASIN: B0009WUIGK
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,517,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm the author of 10 novels, including my debut, SEE JANE DATE, which was made into a TV movie, and my latest, THE LOVE GODDESS' COOKING SCHOOL. My other novels are: The Solomon Sisters Wise Up; Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?; The Breakup Club; Theodora Twist (for teens); Love You To Death; Questions To Ask Before Marrying; The Secret of Joy; and The Mosts (YA).

Short stories can be found in American Girls About Town and Flirting With Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives On The Original Chick Lit Masterpiece. Essays in: It's A Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life In Your Twenties and Everything I Needed To Know About Being A Girl I Learned from Judy Blume.

I'm a former book editor (romance and teen fiction) from New York City and now live on the beautiful coast of Maine, where I write full-time. Please come visit my website at MelissaSenate.com for more information.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent women's fiction/chick lit, November 30, 2003

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PamelaC "Pam" (Plymouth, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Solomon Sisters Wise Up (Red Dress Ink Novels) (Paperback)

I really enjoyed this book. I picked it up yesterday and couldn't put it down until it was done. I do disagree somewhat with a previous reviewer who described this as a "screwball" romp. While there are some humorous elements, this is actually one of the warmest and most realistic chick lit books I've seen so far. The only thing that threw me a bit at first was that the whole book is in first person, and yet there are three main characters, but once I got to know them, it didn't matter. All three stories were touching and enjoyable, and I found myself really rooting for the characters. I also found the subplot with father and his young wife interesting, and thought she did a great job of showing how these three girls get to know each other and discover that their father isn't exactly what they thought.

This is the kind of book to curl up with for the evening, and then loan to all your friends when you're done! I read her first one, See Jane Date, which was cute, but this one is much deeper and overall just much more fun.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Memorable second effort from Ms. Senate!, December 4, 2003

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This review is from: The Solomon Sisters Wise Up (Red Dress Ink Novels) (Paperback)

I can see why Red Dress Ink chose Melissa Senate's novel to help launch its imprint. See Jane Date was a cause celebre of the chick-lit imprint phenomenon, and Red Dress Ink went uphill from there. Now Ms. Senate is back with her second effort, The Solomon Sisters Wise Up. I am pleased to announce that there isn't a trace of sophomore slump in this memorable effort.

Sisters Sarah, Ally and Zoe are facing the most critical time of their lives. Sarah is pregnant by a man she's dated for two months, Ally has caught her husband cheating, and Zoe hasn't been able to cope with the fact that her father is engaged to her best friend. But the aforementioned dilemmas bring them closer together. Self-discovery and learning experiences are forthcoming...

I've summarized this novel in an incomplete manner, for there are more facets to this wonderful story. I've always loved novels about sisters (Rebecca Wells's Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Jennifer Weiner's In Her Shoes are two of my favorites), and this one is as funny and poignant as it gets. The humor and poignancy are earnest -- you cannot help but love this novel. RDI has scored big again. I highly recommend this memorable gem.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars like cotton candy, May 31, 2005

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This review is from: The Solomon Sisters Wise Up (Red Dress Ink Novels) (Paperback)

Cotton candy is yummy, fun to eat, and has nothing of value, but it makes you happy. This book is like that - fun to read, but a little cloying and sentimental, with the "everything will turn out all right" message and the newfound true loving sisterhood of the three sisters. It's pretty amusing in places, and utterly annoying in others, especially in the inconsistencies that should have been caught by a copy editor. (Did she have a cheap wedding, or a $40,000 wedding? etc.) It was also annoying that it was entirely written in first person - although there were three narrators (the sisters), they all had practically the same voice and it was easy to get confused as to which sister was "speaking". However, overall, a pink cotton candy tasty read.