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Best Friends
Martha Moody
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"I read Best Friends by Martha Moody 'cause it was a gift from a friend. That's how I get most of my books.
Best Friends is a story of two women, and it kind of traces their friendship from when they first meet in college, and they could not be more different, to later on in life when they both have kids, I'd say probably 'til they're in late 30's I think is when it goes to, and it's just about their friendship and their dynamic that really they're from such different backgrounds. She's from the Midwest, Claire, who's- it's kind of told from her point of view, and her friend Sally, who's from a much more affluent family in Hollywood, and it's really just kind of how they interact, and Claire's, how she idealizes this rich, glamorous family.
This book was very surprising, 'cause when you hear a title Best Friends, you just think it's oh, the normal trials and tribulations that women go through, and then they're friends, and then they're not, and men and all of that, but this brought in a lot more of this other girl's family, and again the Hollywood dynamic. It turns out later that her dad's involved in a rather risque business which she didn't know about growing up, and just the whole concept of it was kind of was two stories. It told their friendship, it told the main girl's point of view, her live back in the Midwest, she becomes a doctor, and then told her friend's family, who again Hollywood, money, brother becomes a drug addict, just a lot more drama. So you kind of had both thrown in there, but it's always nice reading about people who can maintain their friendships through all sorts of their own personal hardships and everything like that. I find that very enriching to read about.
I actually really enjoyed this book, so if there's anything I didn't like about it, I don't think there really was. Again, I mean the Hollywood part was rather unexpected, so it's all of a sudden this harsh, seedy underworld, and I could see that that would put some people off, but I thought it was rather interesting. It's a different twist to the normal stories of friendships.
I would say this book definitely is geared more towards women, but really women of any age. I would give this book three and a half to four stars out of five."
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