This book, which is and is not a sequel to Sex In the City, is a once over lightly very quick read (just a couple hours). It addresses the relationship issues of women in their fifties in New York. It covers topics such as divorce, dating, relationships, friendships and loneliness. Parts of it are very humerous and other parts are somewhat depressing.

Fans of the Sex In the City television series may find this book of interest. It will also work as a stand alone book as it is not based on any of the characters in the series.

I received a free Kindle copy courtesy of Net Galley  and Grove Atlantic, the publisher. It was with the understanding that I would post a review on Net Galley, Goodreads, Amazon and my fiction book review blog. I also posted it to my Facebook and Twitter pages

I thought, as a 30 year old, I would find this more relatable. I think this was aimed at an older generation and single women in their 50s will enjoy the stories & antics played out in this book.

I couldn't keep the main characters straight - there were so many of them and they seemed to all be the same. There were some laugh out loud moments and heartfelt moments. The characters and the stories were all typical and exactly what you'd expect. Overall, not a great book but also not the worst.

As a HUGE Sex in the City fan I was like yes I need to read this book! Now disclaimer bc I know I was a wee disappointed the girls are not in this book at all! I was waiting for them but they didn't show lol.
I liked how Candace follows the same essay style of writing in this book. I also like that it is centered around a middle aged woman finding herself single again. And hello I LOVE that NYC is still the other major character in this book.
I look forward to read more from Candace!

First, I must say that this is not a fiction novel and is definitely a retread of a previous smash work. Candace Bushnell was THE author to set a trend when she wrote Sex in the City. Sex was exciting and no longer a taboo to talk about it. It was cool and it was life. Her characters were thrilling and inviting and you wanted to hang out with them. However, this book left me a bit flat and disappointed. This time her book reads more like a research paper and if you’ve ever slogged through a few of those, you learn when to throw in the towel. Candace and her friends find or rather research if there is still Sex in the City after your glamorous youth. It's about women in their fifties and divorced and dating in the 21st century. Candace went on Tinder to find her answer to the “Is There Still Sex In The City” question. Except that the notion (which once was innovative and funny) seems dated now, and sad. And quite frankly superficial and a bit desperate. Bushnell writes as if the only thing that now matters is materialistic (her well to do life even after divorce, her dog, her friends, her needs for shoes or skins cream). Parts of the book read as if she had switched to trying to write bad soft core porn. For me, this book reads very one dimensional. The characters were bland and boring. I couldn’t find one that I related to or even liked. There's no excitement in the story. No revelations. I found this book, unlike her first, quite painful to read, and sadly, a disappointment. I shudder to think about her next book being about is there sex in your 80s in New York City. Yikes.

I gave this book 2 out of 5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley and Grove Press for this ARC in exchange for an honest review, and as always, all opinions are completely my own.

Is There Still Sex in the City is the story of one writer's midlife crisis .
Candace Bushnell finds herself in middle age, divorced and worried about money. Things truly come apart when her dog dies and she moves out to Village. Bushnell chronicles the experience of Tinder "dating", having younger boyfriends, and the suicide of one her close friends.
This is one of the saddest books I have read in a long time. Bushnell refuses to accept she is in a middle life life crisis and gives it a cute name and acronym. This is sad in and of itself. She refuses to truly accept her life.
It was hard to identify with her and her friends. Unlike her previous essays, there is no fantasy of being in the thrilling world of New York. I rolled my eyes when she complained living in the Upper East side (if you can't afford it don't live there. Damn.). I deposited her desperateness at thinking she would get something real from Tinder. And don't get me started on her "not mom but acting like mom" chapter.
Maybe this something people her ages (late fifties/early sixties) would enjoy. But i don't see many of normal people being able to empathize with a life that is still better than their because of economic status.
In her book, she mentioned she wrote several novels no one would publish. After reading this one, which they published, i would hate to read those.

I am not the demographic for this novel, but regardless of that fact, I truly loved this book! The candidness of a woman in her late 50's, freshly divorced and the trials and tribulations of simply living as well as dating was so completely engrossing to me. Sometimes I laughed, sometimes I was sad for Ms. Bushnell. If you don't know who she is, she is the creator of Sex and the City and it is truly interesting to hear how her real life is going rather than the fictional Carrie's life (although it does sound like she had a bit of that when she lived in NYC herself).

Overall, her dating experiences were interesting. As someone in her late 30's, again, I am not there yet, but her views on men at her age left my jaw dropping at times. That part alone was a must read for me. I read another similar book, Mad About the Boy, that really failed in describing middle aged women in my opinion. This though, I felt gave me a really good view into her life experiences. I felt like I learned so many new terms: MNB, MAM, and cubbing just to name a few.

A highly recommended novel for anyone who has navigated or is currently navigating the dating scene at any age!

Thank you to NetGalley/the publisher for my copy and honest review.

Candace Bushnell is THE author to set a trend when she wrote Sex in the City. Sex was exciting and no longer a taboo to talk about it. It was cool and it was life. However, this book is different. This is not exactly fiction. It reads more like a research paper in a form of a novel. Candace and her friends find or rather search if there was still Sex in the City. It's more like women in their fifties and divorce to go back to dating in the 21st century. Candace went on Tinder to find her answer. To be honest, this book reads very one dimensional. The characters were bland and boring. There's no excitement in the story.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Firstly, not fiction. Secondly, a retread. CB is renowned for snappy old Sex and the City, and rightly so, it was innovative and funny. But that was some decades ago now. Here, she is reprising the format - a quasi-study of the mating and dating habits of her contemporaries, with funny names and categorizations. Except that the notion seems dated now, and sad. And superficial, And a bit desperate. Everything isn’t material, but Bushnell writes as if it is - her life, her dog, her friends, her needs for shoes or skins cream. Enough already.

This book was kind of all over the place. It was almost a little hard to follow, with different snippets of what was going on with different people at different times. Of course I was a huge sex in the city fan, but this book was mostly just kind of sad.thank you to netgalley for the ARC.

This book didn’t delight me as much as the original. It was a fun read, don’t get me wrong, but I was quite able to put it down and didn’t miss the characters when I was done.

Candace Bushnell at her best! Is there still sex in the city? That depends. Learn about MAM (middle age madness), cubbing, online dating, and of course, female friendships.
Honest, raw and funny, I read this in two days, laughing out loud and reading aloud to my husband.
Whether Candace wrestles with the idea of dating an older man (what if he falls down?), reconnects with an ex, or finds love again; women ‘of a certain age’ will smile, nod and ultimately cheer her along.

Another Candace Bushnell hit! I love all of her books and this one did not disappoint. I learned lots of new terms like MAM, MNB, SAPs, different types of cubs, different types of bike men types, hot drops, etc. Never thought I’d learn about a “Mona Lisa” treatment either! Once again, the author proves that she is fabulous no matter the age or relationship status.


(Will post to Goodreads and Amazon once the book is released!)

Enjoyed the book -- but it's very much a book that you'd have to like Candace Bushnell to enjoy -- it's written very much in her style of writing. Easy read -- doesn't stand up to Sex and the City, but I liked it

Did everyone else know that this book wasn't going to be about Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda? I did NOT. It took me about two or three chapters of waiting for one of them to show up to realize that this book was not about them. It was about a completely difference set of people. Once I got past my initial disappointment in missing my favorite characters and opened myself up to the possibility of something new, I enjoyed this book.

Is There Still Sex in the City follows the same essay style of the first book and follows Candace as she navigates dating and sex in her 50s in New York. It is a light, fun, easy ready that I think will resonate with older fans of the original book.

Thanks to NetGalley and Grove Press for the digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I read Candace Bushnell's new book, Is There Still Sex In The City? in one sitting, alternately highlighting brilliant observations and rolling my eyes. I usually love Bushnell's novels, and quite like her paperback blogs. This book revisits the classic Sex And The City, in the same connected essays kind of style. There's a chatty first-person narrator, relating her own and her friends' experiences.  Like the original SatC, there's a lot of people asking their friends round to talk about men, sex, friendship and occasionally awkward, dated looks at Tinder.  I don't want to read about how the olds just can't figure out Tinder, we have  no shortage of thinkpieces on incomprehensible millennial desires and how different dating is now. No, I want to hear about actual middle-aged dating and romance. 

There's a lot to like here, with the same kind of sharp observations and honesty that makes her novels work. She talks about husbands who just don't, whether it's picking up paper towels or participating in marriage, while their wives do all the adulting. And honestly, haven't we all met this couple before? There's also a lot about the enduring value of female friendships.

Bushnell's novels drip with wealth and privilege, and it's usually such great fun to slip into that world. Here, though, it was hard to go along with the anecdote about multi-thousand-dollar facials, because it felt like a tone-deaf complaint about pushy salespeople. (Geez, even the girl friends buying houses in the same stylish town seems like a hopelessly unrealistic dream for our generation.)

If you read One Fifth Avenue and you wondered what Mindy Gooch's blog would be like, this is it.

Thank you NetGalley for my ARC of this book in Exchange for my honest review.
As Sex and the City is one of my all time favorites I was excited to read this one, and as usual Candace Bushnell does not disappoint.
I enjoyed reading about life for middle-aged women, and how even if it doesn’t always turn out the way you planned, it can still be a fabulous life.

Is there still Sex in the city was a unique read. All at once, I felt I was too old and to young for this book. A look into dating over 50, I felt confused, inspired, vibrant and invisible all at once. An interesting dive into the subject matter. The case studies and chapters were intriguing and I was left wanting more. Who knew that there was still Sex in the city during middle age and beyond.

This was an interesting book. I grew up with sex and the city and enjoyed the characters. This was in the save vein but the characters had moved out of the city and are now in third fifties. There is still angst and moving scenes.

Candace Bushnell’s new book is seriously laugh out loud funny and I could not put it down. I’m a huge fan of her other books and was super excited to get the chance to read this one as well. I love the stories of how she is now divorced and going through single life with her friends. I think Candace writes this book so well cause she is giving the readers her life experience and what it’s like to go through these emotional times. I found myself laughing and nodding along with this book so much. The stories of how cougars have changed through the years is not only informational but funny and had me laughing. I love how she not only has had these extremely close friendships to help guide her through these things but has made new friendships with other people along the way. It’s a great example to woman empowerment and friendship and that during hard times in life we all need someone to help us laugh to get through it. As someone who hates moving all the time I honestly can’t imagine doing it like she has. But this book was fabulous and I’m so I read it and will definitely recommend it to my friends and book clubs.

A lively romp through the golden years - Candace Bushnell writes about sex in the city, now that she is middle aged, meaning if you live to 100, your middle aged years start at 50-60.
I am about the same age as Bushnell and lived in NYC during the 1980's, modeling, watching the TV series, Sex in the City & wishing I was Carrie Bradshaw.
I read Bushnell's first book and can relate to this one as well, except by the 1990's, I was married and living in the suburbs, in the "reproductive lifestyle", as she calls it.
She is a good writer and this book was a quick, entertaining read for me. Parts were poignant, but mostly laugh out loud funny to me. However, I really do not miss that whole dating scene! Even if I were to suddenly become single again, I (literally) don't have the stomach for it.