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Calm, Cool & Adjusted, Spa Girls Series #3
By Kristin Billerbeck / Thomas Nelson Best friends since Johnny Depp wore scissors for hands, “The Spa Girls” live very separate lives, but stay in touch with routine visits to California’s Spa Del Mar. The third novel in the Spa Girls Series focuses on Silicon Valley chiropractor Poppy Clayton, who is as calm, cool and adjusted as they come. ..Or is she? Known for her bad fashion sense, a love for all things natural and the inability to get a second date, Poppy is beginning to wonder if she might be misaligned herself. Her route to self discovery will be an unnatural one–a plastic surgeon, a house in Santa Cruz and a wedding date from the dark side. It’s all enough to send a girland her gal palsrunning for the spa. |
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Kelly’s Review
This is the third and final installment in Kristin Billerbeck’s Spa Girls series. I enjoyed the first two books in the series and looked forward to reading this one and getting to know more about Poppy, the lead character in this novel. Throughout the first two novels, I had become intrigued with Poppy’s character , but this novel came up short for me. I wanted to like it more than I did.
Cool, Calm and Adjusted felt rushed to me. It seemed to me that this was the last book in the series, so Poppy’s story was rushed. At least once in the novel I found editorial mistakes regarding the characters where one character was referred to, but it was supposed to have been another character that was named. Poppy’s character development was okay for me, but not superb. I would like to have known more. Towards the end of the novel she comes to terms with a deep-seeded family issue from her past and I would have liked to have seen her deal with that in more depth. I would have also like to have seen her love interests developed better. Like I said, it just all seemed rushed to me.
That being said, it was a decent read. Not as great as the first two, but I’d still rather read a piece of Christian fiction like this than most secular works any day. It wasn’t the best book of the series and I felt that quite a few details were left untold. It leaves me somewhat wishing that there will be a next installment in this series, but if there is I hope it steps back up to the original quality I found in the first two novels of the Spa Girls series.
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Spa Girls Series, Vols 1-3 By Kristin Billerbeck / Thomas Nelson
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