This book made me feel like I was sitting down with a drink and catching up with an old friend. As a fan of “Sex and the City,” I had to read this one and I wasn’t disappointed. I would recommend it to fans of the show. I think it will do well with them.

Did not enjoy this book. It felt that a book that was written to try to cash in on any remaining sentiment for the original.

I enjoyed Sex and the City when it was originally aired and have read most everything that Candace Bushnell has written. Is There Still Sex in the City is SATC grown up, but also a little bleak. I do enjoy when women come together and support each other but this left me a little depressed. It did leave me appreciating the path of my life a bit.

I am lady of a certain age who was in her twenties when Sex in The City was becoming big. I read the book, I watched the TV series, I watched the films. Then I accepted that, time was gone. In fact so did Candace Bushnell. She had found her Mr Big and she was married and that was that. But sadly not as life happened and she was divorced and finding her self yet again. Alongside quite a few of her female friends. So another group of female support was formed and with a lot of persuasion from her agent a book looking at women's experience of dating and living when you are post menopausal and heading towards your sixties. I'm not sure if this would have got of the ground thirty years ago but we are still the same women just with older bodies and more life experience.
I learnt so much in this book I was both entertained and enlightened! Candace is the ultimate tale teller and she does it do well, I hadn't forgotten how she could include so much detail in one paragraph! For any previous fans, you will not be disappointed with this latest installment.

As other books by this author, it is hilarious. I read this in one afternoon. This story about dating when you reach middle age (the super middles) starts from Tinder exploration to “cubbing” and beyond. You will have to read this to learn about cubbing phenomenon, MAM, MNB, bicycle boys and everyone else. My favorite quote from book is “age is irrelevant and we are all in a new territory”. This is a fun read!!!

Is there still sex in the city?

I was able to read this book thanks to NetGalley and I was so excited to read it. I love all things related to “sex and the city” and I adore any book set in New York City. This is memoir of sorts. It opens after her husband asks for a divorce and suddenly she is navigating the single life. She is in high demand to research and write about dating again. She walks us through tales of her single friends and all the different types of men they encounter along their journey. I thought overall this book was very funny and entertaining and I loved some of the hilarious insight and one-liners. Sometimes I feel like the flow was off and it felt slightly disjointed by abrupt topic changes. Either way it was great to see another book by this author and I will always be a loyal reader. Thanks once again to NetGalley.

Awesome book. Love any book by this author. I loved the story line and the characters if you haven’t read this I suggest you do

I was so excited to get this as an ARC from NetGalley! I have always loved Candace Bushnell's novels, with the exception of Killing Monica. Not really a fan of that one. I was disappointed by this book. I know that this was a memoir type book, but I guess I was expecting something a little more SATC-ish. I love her writing style and that did make the book enjoyable for me. I did enjoy some of the stories, but others were very hard to read. I did find myself skimming the book at times, especially close to the end.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

I wanted to like this book, which represents somewhat of a journey through middle age and female friendships (and dating, and shoes ... ). Some of the chapters were more entertaining than others, some were lighter and more fun than others, some were downright depressing -- life, in general, perhaps a bit more sensational than the average middle aged woman (like me). It seemed to lack the zip and connection with the characters of the author's earlier work. However, fans of Bushnell may enjoy its more colorful moments.
Note: I received an advanced reading copy from NetGalley; this is my honest review.

I have read a couple of books by this author. Sex and the City had been unexciting, but when I saw this book my interest was stirred. The book gods must have been feeling generous because my request for this book was accepted.

Immediately, I started on it and was done two days later. My memory of Sex and the City is a little fuzzy, but I remember enough to say that this is a better, more serious and realistic book. It is definitely more relatable and even funny! Is There Still Sex In The City is a commentary by the author on what it is like to be an older woman in 2019. She spells out boldly what I have always suspected, that life doesn’t “start” at 50. It just continues, although in some ways it is better.

Apart from all the stuff that comes with being a 50+ year old woman, this book also explores just how much a woman’s sexuality is affected. One still has to put up with age reversing creams, Tinder, Mona Lisa treatments and young guys (cubs) who have watched too many MILF videos. All hope is not lost because at this time one can still rely on their friends to help them navigate the madness.
The whole sisterhood vibe I got while reading this was my favorite thing about this book. I only wish that this book was warmer. It felt too detached to me which made it less appealing. With that said, if you were among those who enjoyed Sex and the City, this should be in your reading list.

you need to be a Candace Bushnell fan to appreciate this book. I didn't read the blurb before reading the ARC that I got from Net Galley. There are many characters to keep up with. It lacked drive to me. However, once I got into it I enjoyed the read.

I was super excited to get this advance copy of Candace Bushnell's book. I have always been a great fan of hers, I loved reading all her previous novels. Sorry to say this book was a bit disappointing. I did like her characters, but the whole genre just left me wanting. It just made me feel sorry for these 50ish woman. They all seemed desperate . Reading about all the different online dating . Wow ! Is it really that bad? Thank you for my advanced copy of this book, although I would not recommend this particular book to friends and family, I certainly would continue to follow Candace Bushell. She has proven her self in the past.

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I loved this book. I had read the original Sex and the City book after the tv series came out and was disappointed that it was nothing like the show but I looked at this novel as a completely separate thing. Candace Bushnell is in her late 50's and talks about her experiences as a single woman in New York at this age. I found it a really interesting and sometimes shocking insight, told in a warm and funny manner- as if by an old friend. I will definitely be recommending this book!

I wanted to love this book. I was beyond excited to receive an ARC from Netgalley. But it left me disappointed and wanting.

Is There Still Sex in the City reads like the narration to a TV show, but lacks the imagery and heart that should be playing while the narrator adds their clippy, smart commentary.

The chapters hopped from mini essays on social and dating definitions (Tinder at 50, kids, suicide, types of boys, mid-life crisis, etc.) and character stories without much emotion - lots of telling, little showing. Considering the topics covered, I was expecting to feel something, or at the very least, connection to the characters, but there wasn’t enough to build that connection on.

The writing was choppy and felt like a list of things that happened or of explanations of what was happening. Cliches, acronyms and text speak overflowed throughout. I felt as though it wanted to be smart and edgy, but fell short.

It’s not Sex & the City. I know it’s hard for fans to try to turn to the next chapter on life and love and dating beyond the Sex & the City phenomenon, but I think Candace made a valiant effort to excite her readers again with this book. It just wasn’t for me in the end.

I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review and I am happy to say that I enjoyed this book. Very honest and open. It flowed well from beginning to end. Because one of the the author’s previous books, Sex and the City, has been made into a series- one that I loved, Imy mind kept imagining this as a new series and I think it worked well. Candace does such a good job of describing life and scenarios that I could picture it well. This was a great follow up and some fun getting a new peak inside another side of life!

I was so excited to receive this advance copy as I was such a fan of SATC back in its day.
The writing was good as always, but the content was just depressing to me, as a middle-aged woman.
I try to find hope in books I read about being a 40/50-something woman, and this one, at just 25% through, smashed any. Instead of offering positivity, it mirrored what society superficially judges older women to be. This book deepened the depressing cliche. I cannot finish it and I need to find something to comfort myself with for a while after reading what I did.
Edit to add that as a child-free woman, I did find identification with the part about Max and “the boy.” How a non-mother feels when she needs to, sort of, mother: “Having happy family experiences by osmosis.”

I think Bushell is obviously a very skilled and talented writer but I was a little disappointed with the title of this book because it was somewhat misleading. I think she has a great message but it seems a little disjointed while reading. I think speaking to a "middle age" audience of women about aging, feminism, female friendship, dating, and life in the digital age is a great idea and I don't know of a lot of books that have targeted that specific audience in this fun and relatable manner. She has a fun way of writing that is easy to connect with but unfortunately, it needed to be more cohesive because it just felt all over the place.

Thank you to NetGalley and Grove Atlantic for a copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

This was more like 3.5 stars, but I’m rounding up because I appreciated what Bushnell was trying to do here. I’ve read all her books, and I generally prefer her fiction, because her essays have a tone that is sort of oddly... detached? Or somehow just doesn’t quite gel for me. And this had that, but to a lesser degree. Overall I really enjoyed her musings on aging and feminism. I felt like she seems like she’s accepted where she is in life and is more open and feeling about it, like there was less posturing than in some of her previous writing. And I appreciated her incisive observations about the roles and relationships of men and women in middle age and beyond. I also really liked her focus on female friendship. Some of the chapters were a little weird while others were much more engaging and enjoyable. Overall, it was a quick and interesting read.

I had to read Is There Still Sex in the City because I loved the show. This is the middle age after divorce story. Of course, it's also about female friendships and ridiculous shoes. The story felt like a cliche, and it was depressing. Where are the good men? Men are pigs, etc. I've heard this before. I was really hoping for something more original. Not what I expected unfortunately. Thanks to NetGalley for an arc in exchange for an honest review.