Carrie Pilby is a nineteen year old after my own heart. She has a hard time making friends because she views herself as better than everyone else. She thinks everyone else is hypocritical and immoral. She doesn’t seem to recognize her own hypocrisy and immorality which are prevalent throughout the book.

This is such a fun, light book and I was disappointed when it ended. I’d love to see more books about Carrie. This would be one of the few fictional series I wouldn’t mind following.

I have to admit I don’t know anything about “chick lit”, but I bought this book after reading the author’s web page for years and wanting to see the final result of her work. Carrie Pilby turned out to be a good story built on a premise of this 19-year-old woman living a life alone in New York, a city of millions – that sounds impossible, but it happens more than you’d think in this fast-paced world. There’s a lot of sarcastic or ironic humor among the descriptive view of Carrie’s life and how she observes those around her from the unique perspective of someone who graduated college early and spent most of her life away from the mainstream. What I liked most of all about the book was the plot, and how her psychiatrist had her put together a set of goals that eventually pull us through the book, setting up the different threads within. That made it a real page-turner for me. Like I said, I don’t know much about chick lit and I don’t know if this book is indicative of others in the genre, but I suspect that it’s ahead of the pack and I personally found it a good read and worth checking out.

I thought I might not like the heroine very much at first but turns out I did and the book was great.

I was pleasently surprised by this book. Ignore the “chick lit” cover, this is a “real” book.

cute!