"Cat's Meow" offers quirky inside look into life of broke jet-setting fashionista (book review)
Submitted on July 26, 2001 - 12:00am.
Carolina Powers - Summer 2001
She could be Bridget Jones, if not for the whole British thing. She is everything New York, a blissfully aware clothes addict with—gasp—relationship issues.
But what differentiates Cat McAllister from the other flawed heroines of modern-day fiction is that she is decisively unapologetic. She is “Sex and the City's” Carrie Bradshaw without the emotional hang-ups.
The former child star, ex-model protagonist of “Cat's Meow” is just the type of uber-vixen that women love to hate. Only in this first stylish fare by fashion editor and journalist Melissa De la Cruz, readers will actuallyfind themselves rooting for Cat more and more as the plot progresses.
But what differentiates Cat McAllister from the other flawed heroines of modern-day fiction is that she is decisively unapologetic. She is “Sex and the City's” Carrie Bradshaw without the emotional hang-ups.
The former child star, ex-model protagonist of “Cat's Meow” is just the type of uber-vixen that women love to hate. Only in this first stylish fare by fashion editor and journalist Melissa De la Cruz, readers will actuallyfind themselves rooting for Cat more and more as the plot progresses.
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