Party Favors

I just went on an overseas trip and little did I know that the most important item I had packed could fit right in my carry-on: PARTY FAVORS! I quickly discovered that when I pulled it out on the flight, and it was really the perfect tons-of-fun plane trip read that made the time pass lightning fast! I could not put it down. It was so interesting (I LOVED the fundraising stories and political insider info, I had no idea that even went on in DC like that)--and it was wildly funny, I laughed out loud several times and people around me kept looking over to try and see what I was reading!! I really liked Temple as a protagonist, she was a really strong, inspiring woman and I was able to relate to her at the same time. It's refreshing to see the contrast between her invincibility-on-the-job and her moments of insecurity and her personal losses. And it definitely made me want to buy a red YSL power suit someday, haha. I will be shocked if it doesn't become a TV show soon...it has a great world to explore and would be a refreshing way to make a female lead be part of a show that has both drama and fun but also has a real, serious political side. I think that several of my female college friends would enjoy that, who currently like all the soap-opera-ish comedy type shows on TV but also read "The Economist" and the NY Times regularly and would like a way to combine entertainment with real issues of integrity/politics. So bravo, I am a big fan! Pick up a copy of PARTY FAVORS and I promise your next trip--whether it be on the subway, on a jumbo jet or just to a park bench in the sun--will be much more enjoyable!

I just finished. Rats! My favorite bedtime story is over. How coincidentally timely that I should be smack dab in the middle of my first political fundraising! I need more of Temple Sachet (main character) to advise me, console me, and take me into her gallows humor every night! What a ride. Both writers should be applauded for surviving the living and the telling.

Fun, fast read about a fascinating world (Republican fundraising?! who'da thought!), an incredibly relatable woman (even tho she hobs & nobs), and a whole slew of "blind items." Not sure whether it was more exciting to find out whether she'd ever get any, how she'd ever get out of that job, or who all the congressmen really are.

Party Favors is a terrific read. It makes you feel like a Washington insider. Temple Sachet is a powerful yet feminine main character---I loved the honesty in emotion, top intellect, humor and know-how of this protagonist.