Party Girls

Roz Bailey. Kensington Publishing Corporation, $14 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-7582-0196-6

They may be down on their luck, but first-time novelist Roz Bailey's trio of fabulous 30-something Manhattanites are still the eponymous Party Girls in this Sex and the City-style urban romp. Zoey, Jade and Marielle are old college friends reunited when Zoey a bestselling novelist who now can't seem to write anything but sex scenes turns up in the big city after losing her Connecticut house to her ex-husband. She and Marielle, a floundering actress-cum-waitress, try to revive their careers by day and flagging love lives by night at Club Vermillion (""there's a line to get in, plus a line of ambulances for the... kids who O.D.""), while Jade, a high-powered real estate broker and the busiest party girl of them all, decides to give monogamy a whirl.

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