Ivy, Jane and Ramona, three BFF's since high school in Las
Vegas, will be reunited at a birthday celebration in Sin
City. Ivy and Frank Jacobsen are hosting a party for
their son, Lucas, aka Lucky, who will be 1 years old. Time
for the girls to get together and "catch up." Ivy and
Frank recently returned to Vegas when his mom became ill
and later died. They live in a home with a pool, cactus
garden and palm trees. Frank is happy in his job as
principal in a school near by where he can keep a watchful
eye on his father. I loved Frank and found him to be a
sweet and caring husband, and what a proud father. Ivy hides
many secrets; about her mother
who left Ivy and her father; Jeremy, her
first love, the thoughtful things he did for her when her
mother left. However, Jeremy wanted to be able to date
others, so he broke Ivy's heart? Did she marry the right
man?
Jane arrives from cold, snowy Wisconsin with her two
children Fern and Rocky. Recently fired from her job as a
reporter when she and a co-worker were discovered kissing
on the job. Defiant, she has a hot pink stripe dyed into
her blonde hair. Jane is impatient with her children and
angry at her husband. She decides she does not want to be
married anymore. She plans to enjoy her vacation in Vegas
with her friends but find an apartment for herself and her
children upon her return home. She plans to tell Adam
their marriage is not what she wants.
Not my favorite character. I found her selfish, and her
decisions not thought out.
Ramona has has a semi-successful career as a
singer/songwriter and carries around the pain of giving her
son up for adoption when she was in high school. Living
in CA, Ramona has a relationship with a younger man,
Nash. In Vegas, she discovers she is pregnant and has a
decision to make. Should she tell Nash he's about to be a
father? She plans to keep this baby and must decide if she
will bring it up alone or with Nash? While she is in
Vegas, she searches in vain for the son she gave up for
adoption but is unsuccessful in her attempts. Time to move
on.
One day while shopping in a grocery store, Ivy walks
directly into Jeremy. He is standing there with a washed-
out blonde clinging to his arm. He looks the same. Still
dressed in his uniform of a punk rocker, tight black Tee
and tight black jeans, his black hair still spiky, the same
gorgeous emerald green eyes, now without the black eye
liner he preferred. He is a hunk and happy to see Ivy.
He gives her his card and it is later at home that she
discovers he is a caterer. When she tells Frank, he
insists she use him to cater the birthday fete. Ivy and
Jeremy spend some alone time and discover they can be
friends and enjoy a nice friendship.
VEGAS GIRLS is a now story, sometimes touching, other times
troubling. Ivy makes poor decisions, in my opinion. Her
treatment of her long lost mother was cold, mean and
unforgiving. Shame on you! Heather Skyler knows her
locale and brings Vegas to life, the hot desert, the
flashy casinos, with characters that need
help in finding answers and getting rid of secrets. I find
too many unanswered questions. VEGAS GIRLS, Part Two,
perhaps Mx. Skyler? I look forward to it, even
though "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."
For Fans of Julia Glass and Ann Hood, a Novel about How
the Choices We Make Last a Lifetime
Vegas Girls begins when three former high school
friends, now in their mid-thirties, reunite in their
hometown of Las Vegas—a city they vowed to escape as soon as
they could—to celebrate their new lives and revisit old
haunts. But what starts out as a week-long, sun-kissed
reunion takes a strange turn as mysterious gifts appear,
familiar faces pop up in unexpected places, and each woman
reveals a secret, private quest.
Ramona is searching for a son she gave up for adoption
before their high-school graduation. Jane is trying to leave
her husband of eleven years, even with her two kids in tow.
And Ivy, who has a new baby, is haunted by the memory of her
mother abandoning her twenty years ago—and she has begun
spotting her everywhere. Add to this a darkly charismatic
ex-boyfriend of Ivy’s who won’t give up hope of rekindling
their romance, and a strange, new friend of Jane’s in need
of help, and the week quickly begins to unravel.
Set against desert heat, swimming pools, and casino lights,
and told masterfully through five different points of view,
Vegas Girls is about how we navigate the present
while carrying the ghosts of our past; about growing up with
one eye glued to the rearview mirror; and about what happens
when the past you thought you left behind turns out to have
been with you all along.
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