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Frenemies

by Megan Crane (Goodreads Author)

3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 · rating details · 1,630 ratings · 122 reviews

Just a few months shy of her 30th birthday, Gus Curtis finally feels like she has it all: a strong career, great friends, and a wonderful boyfriend. But all of this comes crashing down when Gus discovers Nate, her "Mr. Right," hooking up behind her back with her so-called "friend" Helen. Soon it seems like the life Gus has worked to make so adult looks a lot like the one s...more

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Published June 20th 2007 by 5 Spot

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Jun 12, 2008 Charity rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit, owned

Megan Crane’s Frenemies is a coming of age novel that I felt I could relate to (so it seems much of what I’ve been reading lately deals with growing up and/or embracing adulthood). It spoke to me, mainly because I’m feeling caught in the crosshairs of “adult” and “young adult” and I found the story both poignant and believeable.

The heroine, Gus (short for Augusta), obsesses - much like a young college student might - about her ex whom she caught cheating on her with one of her so-called “friend...more Megan Crane’s Frenemies is a coming of age novel that I felt I could relate to (so it seems much of what I’ve been reading lately deals with growing up and/or embracing adulthood). It spoke to me, mainly because I’m feeling caught in the crosshairs of “adult” and “young adult” and I found the story both poignant and believeable.

The heroine, Gus (short for Augusta), obsesses - much like a young college student might - about her ex whom she caught cheating on her with one of her so-called “friends”. Naturally, this leads her on a journey not only to try to get him back and plot revenge against the offending “friend”, but also propels her on a mission to make sure everything goes according to plan so she can arrive at age 30 with the man, the career, and the ideal independent living situation.

The interesting dynamic in this novel is the ties between friends and pseudo- or semi-friends. Guys might not understand this concept, but women do. She’s your friend, but not really. You have some laughs, maybe go out every so often, but there’s this underlying feeling you’ve got that you don’t completely trust one another. There’s this fine line between friendship, sisterhood, and competition. And which category do your “friends” fall into?

Plus, it’s about Gus growing up. Is a choice or does it just miraculously happen? Up until recently, I kind of thought it just happened. Poof, you’re grown. But every day, I get closer and closer to twenty-five! And I realize that’s not old by any means, I still find it a bit shocking. Twenty-five?! Already? But, wasn’t high school just, like, two springs ago? (Um, try seven years ago. I’m three short years away from my ten-year reunion!). Thanks to various conversations with a guy I’ll just call my White Knight, I’m questioning that and trying to figure out - like Gus was - how to go about the business of ‘growing up’.

To my chagrin, and everlasting surprise, I am once again flabbergasted by the degree of relateability I find within the pages of Ms. Crane’s well-crafted women’s literature. Take note, readers, chick lit has more to offer than you might think it does.
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May 12, 2008 Jackie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: work-review-related-reading, books-by-friends, chick-lit

Growing pains don't stop when the birthday clock rolls into the 20's (and beyond)--but it's never too late to grow up. That seems to be the underlying theme to the often hilarious and sometimes cringingly close to home frenemies by Megan Crane. She defines a frenemie as "the friend who gives you the sweetest smile to your face, while holding the sharpest
knife to your back". The story centers on Augusta (Gus)Curtis who, in the shadow of her 30th birthday, discovers her boyfriend kissing a friend...more

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Apr 19, 2009 Stinkydiver rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: library-and-other-borrowed-books

This was OK. It was kind of interesting that I didn't find any of the characters to actually be a "good guy", so that set it apart from most chick-lit. I'm just not sure that was what the author was going for.

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May 27, 2008 Danielle rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit

Standard chick lit. Perfect reading material for the beach (or park). Gus is a 29-year-old Librarian (from Simmons, woot!) in Boston. She just caught her boyfriend making out with her old roommate, who as it turns out is bat-sh*t crazy. Gus wants revenge and her bofriend back, and in thr process beds her boyfriend's roommate. Her job sucks, her apartment sucks, and she's almost 30. Of course she's going to have a happy ending.

For librarians and those who live in the city. The portrayal is accura...more

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Dec 07, 2008 Shonda rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book has been sitting on my nightstand for awhile now. I reached my renewal limit at the library and ended up returning it unread. I put myself on the wait list again and was determined to finish it this time. And I did... today. Frenemies is an easy, quick read, however I have to say I was somewhat disappointed.

Gus is heart broken after catching her boyfriend kissing her friend, Helen. I can see how upsetting this can be. The problem I had with this scenario is I just didn't believe Gus an...more

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Jan 03, 2013 Christine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Augusta 'Gus' has some goals she'd like to accomplish before age 30. Have a good job that she loves and be in a stable relationship. The good news? Gus loves her job as a librarian. The bad news? She recently caught her boyfriend (a friend she's known since college) kissing her freshman year college roommate. 'Frenemies' starts with Gus, newly single, having a hard time handling her ex dating her supposed 'friend' Helen. After Gus embarrasses herself in public after a few drinks too many, she tr...more

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May 09, 2012 RLA rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have read a lot of Megan Crane's Harlequin Presents (written as Caitlin Crews) but this is my first mainstream novel of hers.

I am so glad I picked it up as I really enjoyed it. The intricacies and complexities often found in the relationship between women are captured and used perfectly by the author. She doesn't shy away from making her characters behave badly at times, and her heroine manages to be both likeable and un-likeable all at the same time.

The story is full of ups and downs, which p...more

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Jan 14, 2011 Bree T rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit, library-reads, romance

29yo Augusta “Gus” Curtis had a plan. She was going to see in 30 as a grown up with a fantastic boyfriend, great friends, a job she loved and some partying. That all fell apart when she discovered her perfect boyfriend lip locked with her so-called friend Helen. Helen and Gus had roomed together in freshman year of college and although Gus’s other friends didn’t really have any time for her, Gus had always assumed they were good friends. She’d always been there for Helen when Helen needed her so...more 29yo Augusta “Gus” Curtis had a plan. She was going to see in 30 as a grown up with a fantastic boyfriend, great friends, a job she loved and some partying. That all fell apart when she discovered her perfect boyfriend lip locked with her so-called friend Helen. Helen and Gus had roomed together in freshman year of college and although Gus’s other friends didn’t really have any time for her, Gus had always assumed they were good friends. She’d always been there for Helen when Helen needed her so she’s not sure quite why Helen repaid her by stealing her boyfriend. Although Helen is one of ‘those’ girls who doesn’t enjoy female companionship much and always gets along better with men, Gus thought that Helen had some loyalty towards her. What’s even worse is that Helen can’t seem to see that what she’s done is wrong and just wants to know why Gus is mad at her. Gus is a complete mess over the break up and goes through several humiliating moments, including karaoke singing a Janis Joplin song to ex-boyfriend Nate and boyfriend stealer Helen. As Gus’s best friends, Amy Lee and Georgia try to get her to see that her obsession with getting Nate back and understanding why Helen did what she did isn’t healthy, Gus can’t be told. She looks for hidden messages from Nate everywhere, convinced that he was ‘trapped’ by Helen and that deep down, he wants her back too. He just need to escape Helen’s clutches.

While Helen is trying to get Nate back and dealing with Helen, there’s also the problems of her best friends to consider. Georgia has a thing for unsuitable men and is forever picking up corporate sharks who discard her after a few weeks, leaving her bereft and bedridden in tears. There’s Amy Lee, the only married one who just wants everyone to grow up. And then there’s Henry…. Henry Benedict Farland IV, who rents Nate a room in his house, who has been on the periphery of Gus’s social circle for 10 years, who Georgia pined over for most of college and who let Gus into his house in order for her to find Nate and Helen kissing in the kitchen. But is Henry as evil as Gus likes to believe? Maybe there was another reason he let her in that night, and not just for his personal amusement.

This was a random pick up from my local library – the colour of the cover caught my eye and so did the title. Because let’s face it – who hasn’t had one of those toxic frenemy types in their lives at some time? I like reading about women’s relationships and I’m an avid fan of all ends of the chick lit spectrum from the fanciful to the more serious ‘women’s fiction’ types. And this book was a really fun and quick enjoyable read that passed a lazy summers afternoon.

Gus is a bit of a mess – she’s still living in the same one bedroom apartment she’s had since college and her furniture is still the same mishmash of rejects found on the street that she’s had since college as well. Her walls are lined with posters and her books don’t have shelves, piling up all over the floor. She has a pretty cushy job as the librarian in a museum where she gets to catalogue and research how she wants and quite a lot of freedom. Her friends Amy Lee and Georgia, a dentist and lawyer respectively have moved onto the grown up train a little ahead of Gus but at the beginning of the book she truly doesn’t see that she is wallowing in her early 20′s when really she’s about to turn 30 and her college days are long ago. She’s likable but a bit nutty – totally done in by finding out that Nate betrayed her with Helen and she mostly lays the blame at Helen’s door, assuming that Helen trapped or seduced him. Someone ought to give her the heads up on ‘you can’t take what doesn’t want to be taken’ but she is at first, steadfast in her belief that poor Nate is innocent, having been tricked by the toxic Helen and it isn’t until almost the end of the book that the wool starts to lift from her eyes and she stops viewing Nate in such an idyllic light.

It’s something that happens plenty in the real world – we’ve either been there or know someone who has. It’s never the poor male’s fault, it’s always the witchy other woman and her seductive wiles. Especially when the male is one like Nate – affable, good looking, nice, probably a bit simple. He’s not exactly a deep character in the novel so you have to make assumptions about him based on what you’re given but he doesn’t strike me as being particularly intelligent. It’s mentioned several times that Nate has a long relationship history, not much of it particularly serious and he seems the type of man who ‘marks time’ with whoever is around until another woman comes along. And it’s obvious that he wasn’t that into Gus in the first place if he’s swayed by Helen, her supposed friend after just four months.

Helen was a bit of a weird character. At first I found it a bit hard to believe that she didn’t know that she was doing something wrong but then I was reminded of a few instances in my past where similar things have happened. Helen’s attitude was more that she was doing Gus a favour, because clearly it proved that Nate and Gus were not meant to be together – which was true, but it’s not the way that anyone ever wants to find that out, is it? She made good hatred fodder because she was so annoying and clueless and I wish that Gus had actually given her a bit more of a serve throughout the book instead of standing there bemusedly gaping like a fish at Helen Logic, which made very little sense and deserved a pretty good smackdown.

Henry was delightful – I love rich, male slutty types with hidden depths who clearly have eyes for the main character which she’s totally oblivious too. At first he comes across like he might be the villain but it’s a wonderfully fun journey when you realise he’s not. This book is not without its flaws – Gus is at times just a little too neurotic. It stops being amusing and strays into irritating, wanting-to-smack-her territory and her obsession with Nate and Helen goes on just a fraction too long. And the fight she has with her friends is a bit weird, but I suppose some of the worst fights in real life can be over the most trivial things. But overall it was just a soothing read – good girls like Gus who get jerked around by boyfriends/so called friends can win in the end. And who doesn’t like a happy ending?(less)

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Sep 25, 2010 Jane Stewart rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit

I did not enjoy the book, but I liked the advice for reconciling after a fight.

This was too chick lit for me, not enough romance. I did not find it funny or enjoyable. I wanted it to be over. I did not care for the way the three female friends acted. They lied to each other and to themselves. Georgia lusted after Henry for many years but it wasn’t returned, so she spread lies about him. Her friends supported her by believing the lies and calling Henry “Satan” and a “slut”. Amy was mad that her f...more I did not enjoy the book, but I liked the advice for reconciling after a fight.

This was too chick lit for me, not enough romance. I did not find it funny or enjoyable. I wanted it to be over. I did not care for the way the three female friends acted. They lied to each other and to themselves. Georgia lusted after Henry for many years but it wasn’t returned, so she spread lies about him. Her friends supported her by believing the lies and calling Henry “Satan” and a “slut”. Amy was mad that her friends didn’t “guess” that she was pregnant, when her only hint had been she wasn’t drinking because she was the designated driver. The main female character Gus was dumped by Nate. Gus was obsessive about getting him back and refused to acknowledge the truth about him, herself and another guy who was right for her. One character described these three as playing their “girl games.” Most of the story was about Gus’ obsession with Nate and her related actions.

I planned to give this 1 star, but upgraded it to 2 stars solely due to one paragraph in the book on page 265, quoted below. I liked this quote. It was thought provoking and might be good advice for what to do after a fight among friends or family.

“It had seemed so foreign to me – the idea that you could move forward without a painful airing of grievances on both sides. But maybe Minerva had it right – maybe it wasn’t necessary to pick apart pain. Maybe some things just weren’t worth fighting about. Some friends weren’t friends anymore, but family – and there were different rules for family. It didn’t make sense to sit down with family and detail all the reasons they’d upset you – for many reasons, not least among them the fact that they could whip out a checklist of your transgressions themselves. And after you’d both picked apart the carcasses, why would you want to be friends again? Maybe the important thing was to recognize that everyone felt wronged and slighted – but the point worth concentrating on was that everyone loved each other. If we worked from that premise, we should be fine.”

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Story length: 289 pages. Sexual language: none. Number of sex scenes: 2. Length of sex scenes: 1 was a paragraph and 1 was a sentence. These scenes were told/referred to and not shown or described in detail. Setting: current day Boston area. Copyright: 2007. Genre: chick lit with romantic motivations.(less)

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May 01, 2010 Clare rated it 2 of 5 stars

**I have a frenemy. I’m struggling with having her in my life, so I read books about how other people might handle this. Watch for a few books titled Frenemies, because I'm reading them all.**

I’ve never been cheated on (that I know of), but I hope I never scream out Janis Joplin songs in public to my cheating boyfriend and the former friend who kissed him. But that’s what 29-year-old Augusta “Gus” Curtis does in the opening chapter in this book. I don’t know why I continued reading this, since I...more

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Jun 09, 2013 Alice Oakley rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit, romance, comedy

Megan Crane's "Frenemies" is quite different from most other chick-lit I read. While we have the standard boy-meets-girl stuff, I found the characters to be somewhat strange. I just didn't understand why, after finding him kissing Helen, Gus was so keen to get Nate back. Surely any sane girl would want nothing whatsoever to do with either of them after that?

I guess that's what Megan Crane was aiming for, though - showing the characters actually growing up throughout the book. I liked Gus's best...more

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Jan 06, 2009 Susanna rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit

I struggled between giving this 3 or 4 stars. It was such a fun read, but admittedly not the best writing I've ever encountered. I gave in and gave it 4 because I liked it despite its flaws. I love reading about librarians who don't adhere to the traditional sterotypes. And I guess I'm a sucker for some good chick-lit at times.

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Nov 30, 2009 Amy.teitelman rated it 2 of 5 stars

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I love chick lit, not gonna lie. Authors like Jennifer Weiner (love her) would say that chick lit is just what people call writing by contemporary women, but I disagree. Arundhati Roy, Lorrie Moore, and Zadie Smith do not write chick lit. Megan Crane does. I mean, "Frenemies?" Come on. Anyway, this book was mediocre, frothy silliness which I gulped down in a day. The main character goes through a little too much hand wringing about being 29 and unmarried (didn't we get enough of...more

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Nov 13, 2011 PenNPaper52 rated it 5 of 5 stars

I simply loved this book. Its about frndship, pure and simple and how frnds are the backbone to any woman's life. No matter how the bf, the husband, the son, the father, MEN can never bond with a WOMAN like WOMEN bond with WOMEN... Of course this precious bond comes with hazards and traps. Its lyk playing golf, one stroke can get you to the flag faster, bt if you get stuck in a hazard, you are likely to doom. The main character of Augusta is stuck in a hazard. She has recently witnessed her room...more

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Jan 18, 2009 Jenn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-owned, 2009-reads

I had a lot of trouble getting interested in this book. The first few chapters, I thought Gus was a complete moron. In fact, I thought she was throughout the whole book, trying to win her ass of an ex-boyfriend back, WHILE he was with her ex-friend who he cheated on her with. Yeah, I know, drama.

The only reason I gave this book three stars is because of Henry. To me, he carried this book..and I grew to have a little bit of a crush on him. He was so complex, and I could really relate to him (bei...more

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Oct 15, 2008 Amy Thompson added it

Can I give this a negative rating?
It was really poor writing, but so true. I imagine most women have lived this and don't need to read it.

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Feb 07, 2012 Julia rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

I'd give only one star to the first half of this book. From the beginning, the end was obvious. The main character was ridiculous and in bucket-loads of denial. The plot was how she learned her lesson; unfortunately, right away I knew which lessons she was going to learn, so there was no suspense or guessing, only the agony of waiting for her to figure out the obvious. She was dying to be with a guy, but ranted the whole first half about how much she hated him and how much he hated her back, des...more

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Nov 29, 2007 Ellenjsmellen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit

One of those girl gets cheated on by a friend stories. I really like this one.

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May 19, 2010 Merredith rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: chick lit readers

Recommended to Merredith by: no one

Shelves: chick-lit, 1-or-2-stars

I like chicklit, but I don’t always like the characters in the chick lit books..probably because I'm not a girl's girl. I didn’t really like the main character, Gus. She was whiny and really stupid. Her 'frenemy' Helen reminded me exactly of Edie from desperate housewives. I didn’t so much love her either, but I liked her way better than Gus. My favorite character was Henry, followed by Chris. I could only relate to the men in this book. Big surprise. Anyway, very light reading. Not bad, just no...more

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Oct 22, 2010 Leah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: for-review, books-read-2010

As Gus Curtis approaches thirty, she has everything that she feels she needs to really become a proper grown-up. She has a great job, good friends and a good boyfriend. Until she walks in on her so-called ‘good’ boyfriend Nate liplocked with her so-called ‘good’ friend Helen sending Gus’s life into a bit of a tailspin. Gus keeps telling everybody that she’s fine but it’s proven that she’s clearly not when she makes a fool of herself one night, all thanks to Janis Joplin. One inadvertent hook-up...more As Gus Curtis approaches thirty, she has everything that she feels she needs to really become a proper grown-up. She has a great job, good friends and a good boyfriend. Until she walks in on her so-called ‘good’ boyfriend Nate liplocked with her so-called ‘good’ friend Helen sending Gus’s life into a bit of a tailspin. Gus keeps telling everybody that she’s fine but it’s proven that she’s clearly not when she makes a fool of herself one night, all thanks to Janis Joplin. One inadvertent hook-up later and Gus’s life is looking more like a teenage drama than the grown up life she’s trying to achieve. Is the reason for Gus’s lack of adulthood really down to Nate and Helen’s betrayal, or does Gus need to look closer to home to learn what it takes to become an adult?

I’ve heard quite good things about Megan Crane but until now I haven’t gotten around to picking up any of her books. I was asked by one of the people who work for her British publisher what I thought of her and I told him I wasn’t too sure as I couldn’t manage to find any of her books to read and he offered to send me some of Megan’s books. Because I couldn’t wait to be able to get back to him to tell him what I thought, I decided to give one of Megan’s books a read as soon as I could and settled on Frenemies because of its fantastic title!

At the back of Frenemies, Megan Crane discusses why she decided to write Frenemies and she said she decided to write it after watching the movie Mean Girls and says that real life is so much worse than what is portrayed in the movie and that she wanted to write about ‘that’ girl, the girl who will stab you in the back whilst looking you in the eye. That is pretty much Frenemies in a nutshell and is a pretty good topic to focus on. A lot of chick lit books do indeed feature cheating but I think this is the first book I have read where it’s someone you believe to be a friend who does the dirty with your boyfriend which is what happens to Gus. To make it even worse, after Helen betrays Gus by cheating with Nate, she then acts like nothing has happened and that she a Gus can be BFFs thus making her a ‘frenemy’ (a mash up of ‘friend’ and ‘enemy’, if you weren’t already aware!).

The book is told entirely from Gus’s point of view, which means we get to know Gus really really well and I admit, I liked her. I liked the fact she had lived in her same one-bedroom apartment pretty much since College and I loved that her apartment looked as if she had robbed a library, with piles of books everywhere. It made it so easy to imagine her apartment, full to the brim with books. Sure, some things annoyed me about Gus: how she easily believed Nate would come back to her and had been brainwashed into cheating with Helen, and how she kept letting Helen follow her and talk to her, whereas any sane person would be slapping her and telling her to get lost. Apart from those minor irritations I liked Gus very much along with her hilarious dog Linus.

There were a few other characters present in the book; Nate and Helen for starters and I didn’t like either of them at all, Gus tries to make us think Nate is somehow ‘trapped’ with Helen but I think that was just so she could delude herself into thinking she could get him back more than there being any real truth to the matter. I would have liked a bit more of an explanation as to why Helen did what she did, but she never told us. The other important characters to the book were Amy Lee and Georgia, Gus’s two best friends. I wasn’t a huge fan of Amy Lee. She was very snippy and short with Gus and although I could understand why (Gus does get VERY annoying about Helen/Nate) I didn’t like that she did it. Amy Lee completely explodes toward Gus and Georgia at one point in the book and it all gets explained away very conveniently and, like Gus, I wanted more of an explanation. I know she had her excuses for it (an excuse I saw coming) but I found it annoying that that is what she blamed it on. I loved Georgia though, she was my second favourite character. Finally we had Henry Farland, Nate’s room mate and Gus’s sparring partner. We learn a lot about him via Gus but all wasn’t as she told us, and I did find him a bit charming!

Frenemies is written in a very chatty tone, making it easy for me to get into the book and speed through the pages. The book is under 300 pages long, and doesn’t feel too short or too long. The book is set in the USA, in Boston which I loved. I’ve never been to Boston, but it’s a place I would love to visit so I liked the fact Gus lived there, near to Fenway Park! I definitely can’t wait to read more of Megan’s books after I enjoyed Frenemies and I’m very glad that, so far, I don’t have THAT girl in my life…(less)

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Dec 03, 2008 Brenda rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Christi

Shelves: fiction, 2008

This is Megan Crane's third book, and actually less shocking than her first two. For some reason I was really in the mood for this book and devoured it (might have been the mention of Logan Echolles from Veronica Marrs the Author made in the acknowledgements. I'm just saying). I think the best category for this book is 'chick-lit,' but I dislike having to use that term. It is used to encompass way too many books, and Megan Crane actually says more than most fluffier 'chick-lit' writers.

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Oct 01, 2012 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was quite good, a nice easy read about a girl and her group of friends who she thinks she knows so well, they go through some tough times because one of her friends steals her boyfriend off her and she's so busy being hurt and upset about that it takes her a while to realise that she's better off without him and ends up going out with the guy she thought she hated...all works out ok in the end though, and she actually grows up once she realises she has been stuck in the same time zone as wh...more

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Oct 11, 2010 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 144booksin2010, ebook

I loved this Crane novel! I had read Names My Sisters Call Me and loved it so much, I put Crane on my to-be-read list. This one did not disappoint, and I intend to pick up more. Crane aptly captures the complexity of female relationships in this novel. There's good and bad, but it mostly brings a focus on the catty or immature behaviors we can bring to relationships with even our best of friends, as well as the hypocrisy inherent in the judgment of other women.

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Dec 01, 2008 N rated it 2 of 5 stars

Ugh. This was so bad I had to stop reading halfway through. I was looking for a fun, light chicklit, but this was waaaayy too light. A girl's best friend steals her boyfriend, the girls fight, the girl tries to win back the lame boyfriend, blah blah. I actually think that it was most dull primarily because the main character was such a cardboard cutout. Maybe it redeemed itself in the end, but it could have used a few subplots and some character development to give it a bit more meat.

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Apr 19, 2012 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: chicklit

4.5 Stars

Augusta "Gus" Curtis is about to turn the big 3-0 and her big adulthood plans falls apart before her eyes. She walks in on her boyfriend, Nate, and someone she thought was a good friend, Helen, kissing. Throw in tons of drama and a love triangle that also includes her ex's roommate, Henry, and Gus's life is pretty crazy... Not to mention some a huge best friend fight. Most of the book I was hating on Helen (just as Gus was) for being a horrible friend by stealing Gus's boyfriend and the...more

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Dec 28, 2010 Melannie :) rated it 2 of 5 stars

I'm not a slow reader,
I'm pretty fast, if I say so myself,
so just consider the day I started this book 16/09
and I finished it yesterday 18/12...

well you do the math,
that's how much I was into this book,

and I don't wanna be rude, 'cause it wasn't totally boring or anything
but I guess it's just not my kind of read,
considering it's about a 29 year old girl, freaking out about going 30,
with a friend that had just stabbed her in the back, in the way of stealing her boyfriend and long time friend,
cont...more

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Jul 05, 2010 Donnamarie Mackay rated it 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book I loved the fact that all the characters were at fault and that everyones opinions were biased misconceptions. I loved how crane portrayed the characters as never seeing clearly how they are perceived by others. A very clever novel and makes you look at certain friendships in a while new light

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Oct 17, 2007 Krystal rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: chicklit

1/2 way through and I like the book. Its a little juvenile, but then even the cover alluded to the fact that the main character feels she's living a high school drama. I like the dialogue, and some of the stunts that Gus pulls are pretty funny to read. Who wouldn't wanna yell/sing Janis Joplin's "Piece of my Heart" 3 inches from your ex's face (and the skank he was getting some from on the side.)
Its annoying how weak Gus comes off being, but lets face it, thats generally how people live in life...more

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Jun 06, 2012 Zarina rated it 4 of 5 stars

I was plodding at the first third of the book. I mean, do you want to read about why the guy went to the other woman and how she plans to take revenge.

Anyway, then it became interesting and weird. But I have always love that sudden twist. Wouldn't mind reading it again - well especially that weird part.

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Mar 27, 2009 Leslie rated it 4 of 5 stars

I don't know why, but this book cracked me up. It was completely predictable, but sometimes you're just in the mood for a formula that entertains you and the snarky comments in Frenemies really got me laughing. I mean, how can you not love a book that goes on a diatribe about how DailyCandy emails stress a person out for not being cool enough?

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Megan Crane is a New Jersey native who had great plans to star on Broadway, preferably in Evita, just like Patti LuPone. Sadly, her inability to wow audiences with her singing voice required a back up plan. Accordingly, she graduated from Vassar College and got her MA and PhD in literature from the University of York in England. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on AIDS literature, mostly so she...more

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“I think the important thing to remember is that all relationships benefit from a bit of breathing room. Especially friendships. It's only when you find yourself without the women who understand you that you realize there are very few women who will.” — 34 people liked it

“The truth was that I'd been spending years running away from myself. I hid myself in drama, silliness, stupidity, banality. So afraid to grow up. So afraid to involve myself in relationships where I might be expected to give the same love I got - instead of sixth-grade shenanigans. I bored myself with all the when I grow up nonsense, but I was worried it would never happen even as I longed for it.” — 24 people liked it

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