The Best of Enemies, Jen Lancaster
The Best of Enemies, Jen Lancaster
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The Best of Enemies

Author: Jen Lancaster

Narrator: Emily Rankin, Julia Whelan

Unabridged: 11 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 08/04/2015


Synopsis

Bridesmaids meets Big Little Lies in a novel told from the alternating perspectives of two women who define the term frenemies—from New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster.

Jacqueline Jordan knows conflict. A fearless journalist, she’s spent the past decade embedded in the world’s hot spots, writing about the fall of nations and the rise of despots. But if you were to inquire about who topped Jack’s enemy list, she’d not hesitate to answer: Kitty Carricoe.

Kitty reigns supreme over the world of carpools and minivans. A SAHM, she spends her days caring for her dentist husband and three towheaded children, running the PTA, and hiding vegetables in deceptively delicious packed lunches.

Kitty and Jack haven’t a single thing in common—except for Sarabeth Chandler, their mutual bestie. Sarabeth and Jack can be tomboys with the best of them, while Sarabeth can get her girly-girl on with Kitty. In fact, the three of them were college friends until the notorious incident when Jack accidentally hooked up with Kitty’s boyfriend…

Yet both women drop everything and rush to Sarabeth’s side when they get the call that her fabulously wealthy husband has perished in a suspicious plane crash. To solve the mystery surrounding his death, Jack and Kitty must bury the hatchet and hit the road for a trip that just may bring them together—if it doesn’t kill them first.

About The Author

Jen Lancaster is the New York Times bestselling author of eleven previous books (I Regret Nothing, Twisted Sisters, The Tao of Martha, Here I Go Again, Jeneration X, If You Were Here, My Fair Lazy, Pretty in Plaid, Such a Pretty Fat, Bright Lights, Big Ass, Bitter Is the New Black). She has appeared on Today, The Joy Behar Show, and NPR’s All Things Considered. She resides in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband and their ever-expanding menagerie of ill-behaved pets.


Reviews

Goodreads review by MB on September 23, 2015

I love this author so much that I’m always eager to read any piece of writing she creates even if it appears on a dirty napkin. Unfortunately, as much as I try, I don’t love her novels as much as her memoirs. I keep trying and will continue to do so because I believe in her writing. For instance, He......more

Goodreads review by Hilary on September 07, 2015

Although I've loved every book that Jen Lancaster has written, I have always preferred her memoirs to her fiction. However Best of Enemies totally changed my mind... I LOVED this book! The characters were terrific and kept me laughing out loud from the first page to the last. There were so many twis......more

Goodreads review by Kala on July 28, 2015

Obviously, this is a book written for women. My issue is that it is written for a particular subset of women. I am not sure exactly who these women are, but I am not one of them. It is hard for me to find the humor in PTAs, blogging for business, and catty frenemy-ships (Is that a word?). This book......more

Goodreads review by Renee on February 23, 2016

The Best of Enemies starts out with a fluffy chick lit feel, which was all I was expecting when I picked it up. I enjoyed the little snippets of flashbacks showing how the two main characters relationship had developed over the years. Somewhere in the middle, the story twisted and became more of a m......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on August 24, 2015

I'm so bummed because this book started out AMAZING! (view spoiler)[I cannot believe it ended with her quitting her job overseas because secretly she was afraid of love, but conveniently found her lost love (don't worry, he had secretly been pining away for her for the last 15 years), married him, and then of cour (hide spoiler)]......more


Quotes

PRAISE FOR TWISTED SISTERS:

“Jen Lancaster mixes sibling rivalry, reality television and body swapping…hilarious.”—HoustonPress.com

The Real World meets Freaky Friday.”—Rainy Day Ramblings

“Sure to appeal to fans of Helen Fielding, Emily Giffin, Sophie Kinsella, and Jennifer Weiner, Twisted Sisters is Jen Lancaster at her funniest and most, well, twisted.”—Starpulse.com

HERE I GO AGAIN:

“This is the only book in twenty years that made me wipe my eyes. Jen Lancaster’s like a modern-day, bawdy Erma Bombeck....I couldn’t put it down!”—Lisa Lampanelli, New York Post

“Entertaining, humorous, and well written, and the characters are perfection.”—Examiner.com

Mean Girls meets Back to the Future…scathingly witty and lots of fun.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)


IF YOU WERE HERE:

“A perfect summer read.”—USA Today

“Witty and hilarious.”—People (3½ stars out of 4)

“Bitter may well be the new black, but If You Were Here is the new funny.”—Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times Bestselling Author of Backseat Saints