Product Description
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The Wild Zone, a South Beach (Miami Beach, Fla.) bar filled with lusty men—specifically, charismatic personal trainer Jeff Rydell; his cute visiting half-brother, Will, a Princeton graduate student; and Jeff's married best friend, Tom Whitman, a dishonorably discharged Afghanistan war veteran with some serious problems—provides the starting point for bestseller Fielding's nonstop thrill ride. A sexy bar patron, Suzy Bigelow, inspires the trio to make a wager on who can bed her first, and they even ask Jeff's live-in girlfriend, a Wild Zone bartender, for help. Suzy chooses Will for a platonic date, which has some distinctly unpleasant repercussions that involve not only wide-eyed Will but desperate, gun-loving Tom, whose wife takes their children and files for divorce. Fielding (Still Life) combines a fast-paced plot with top-notch character development to create an atmosphere of brooding unease that explodes in a wonderfully wild resolution. (Feb.)
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This is the worst book ever written by Joy Fielding. The 3 male characters are arrogant and shelfish and I couldn't continue reading and had to skip to the end to read the ending.
Unfortunately this paragraphs irks me terribly.
"You have anyone from Singapore?" Tom had heard about how strict they were in Singapore, where they throw you in jail for jaywalking and doled out hundred of lashes for just spitting on the street. Shit, hadn't they almost execute some poor American kid for scribbling harmless graffiti on a wall? You had to figure their women would be pretty submissive."
~ page 319
Urgh. Typical stereotyping and demeaning to our women.
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