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VEGAS GIRLS

Vegas Girls, October 2016
by Heather Skyler

Skyhorse
348 pages
ISBN: 1510710833
EAN: 9781510710832
Kindle: B01HDVCF4C
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VEGAS GIRLS
Heather Skyler

Reviewed by Patricia (Pat) Pascale
Posted October 4, 2016

Women's Fiction

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."

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SUMMARY

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 Vegasβ€”a city they vowed to escape as soon as they couldβ€”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 agoβ€”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. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionβ€”novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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