Is There Still Sex in the City is a funny narrative on the What Happens Next aspect of personal relationships, and whether we are ever too old or too over it to play the game again. I loved the stories of escapades and ‘cubbing’.

Candace Bushnell is back, and she is great more than ever. This book is absolutely fabulous, a real help for women over 50. Okay, maybe not all of us are great looking and with a great wardrobe like her and her friends, but as in SNTC she makes us dream. We COULD be fabulous like her and her friends, and be able to tackle all kinds of possible boyfriends we happen to meet. We just have to relax, sip a Martini and read every single page looking for tips - not about the best seduction ways but about how to restart, to keep in mind the mistakes and delusions of the past without allowing them to rule our present. She had a divorce, and of course we can't help to think If a woman like that divorced, how can we pretend to have the same partner forever? She shows us her fears, making us stronger and fearless. Mrs Bushnell, thank you very much for this really empowering book.

For those of you looking for the further adventures of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda this is not your story. In this short yet sweet read by writer Candace Bushnell does she take us along for the further adventures she experienced after …. Sex and the city. For those of you who do not know she did write a column called “Sex and the City” in the 1990s and found her Mr. Big. However, unlike Carrie, she did not marry him but remained single. In “Is there still sex in the city” does she speak from her experience as she became a single woman after a decade married and had to navigate being single as a middle-aged woman. As always, she is surrounded by a strong cohort of Women who helps her navigate her life whether married or single as they are showcased memorably. As in “Sex and the City” the novel features her experience and those of her friends in separate anecdotes. While reading this novel I feel it took a while for I to connect with the story for at least 35% of the novel had past and I did not. I find her commentary on marriage, children, divorce, and grief to be interesting but not compelling. To what she expressed she has done before and I believe I wanted to hear her personal thoughts on these beliefs than how they were expressed through others. The final 30% of the novel was touching, personal and revealed the woman underneath whom we expect Candace Bushnell to be. For she is no Carrie Bradshaw but rather a modern woman simply living life by her rules. To believe that in 2019 this would STILL be revolutionary is appalling but is simply a representation on alternative ways of living. I only wish we could have been shown what that looked like a little bit more. I thank Netgalley for an advanced readers copy and recommend this to fans of Sex and the City, and other works by her. This is expected to be released August 5th, 2019. I give this book 3.5 stars out of five.

Thank you Netgalley for an ARC of Candace Bushnell's newest work.

Candace Bushnell of Sex and the City fame returns with a new semi autobiographical look at life and love after divorce in the City. She tackles tinder, face creams that cost more then a car, cougars and cubs and all things that make up middle age divorcees.

I love Bushnell's writing style and for fans of SATC they will be quite very familiar with her. The novel is told in a series of essays full of her trademarked quick wit and humor. Some of the topics felt a little over done, the woman who doesn't get tinder, the divorcee being taken advantage of by a younger man. This is a fun read but its missing some of the original's sizzle.

So, a super depressing take on Sex and the City. I like Candace Bushnell's work but this one wasn't a fun read.

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

I have read a couple of books by this author. I have never read Sex in the City, but adored the HBO show. The book gods must have been feeling generous because my request for this book was accepted. At the end I was a bit bored. I found I read the book more for the author than for the actual content

This book was not what I thought. I loved Sex and the City. I just don’t know if I was the right audience for the book.

I’ll state my bias up front I’m a huge Candace Bushnell fan and a huge sex and the city fan so aIm definitely the target audience for this book. Read this in one day it was like a long awaited visit with old friends . I would highly recommend this book. I was graciously provided this book by the publisher via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I just finished ‘is the still Sex in the city?’ And I just loved it.

I’ve grown up reading a lot of Chick Lit but Sex and the City has always been more than that to me. While I was obsessed with the show, i’ve Always loved how different the books were and this one doesn’t disappoint.

We’re back discussing our favorite topic -relationship- but this time around, everyone is 50 years old or more. From dating (much) you get boys to getting divorced or deciding that companionship rather than love should be the way to go, it was fun and awfully interesting to see how love, dating & relationships are different as you get older.

This is a fresh take on an old favorite and I am glad to have been able to read it early!

Out of an abundance of nostalgia for my New York City days, I recently rewatched every season of Sex and the City and discovered how much it held up. Not all of it, of course, but the show captured a lot about the New York experience that is timeless. I was so excited to get to read an advance copy of Candace Bushnell's new book, and I loved every page. Her stories of aging, friendships and dating changing are funny, poignant and relatable. Highly recommend to anyone who was a fan of the series or her other books-- readers of Nora Ephron will likely enjoy too.

This is a book about women still stuck in a bygone era. They get familiar with Tinder, the Mona Lisa method and cubbing, but they did not aquire wisdom through time.

The characters only define themselves in terms of a relationship. They have no depth, no real issues as women have in real life. Shopping in Madison World fits all the clichés about the lifestyle. Their lives are a cliché. They are carbon copies of each other.

Then came the part about playing house with Sam and his kid for the camping holiday in her backyard, where Candace became a bit more real, more human. But not real enough to mention the boy's name until they have left. I'm not sure if I was disappointed in the characters or the book itself.

I found it peculiar that the writer made herself a character in the book. I simply can't believe that this is the same writer that wrote Sex and the city. The characters did just not have the depth needed, they all stayed one-dimensional throughout.

A light read for a lazy winter's day.

Who is the target market for this book? I'm not sure if middle aged women will identify with it, where characters in this day and age still define themselves in terms of a relationship with a man, and their whole lives revolve around it. Young women might find the characters a bit pathetic.

Is There Still Sex in the City?'s storyline is vastly different than the HBO series or the first Sex and the City book, but Candance Bushnell's familiar writing style and her razor sharp sense of humor definitely shine here. For me, reading Candace's work feels like catching up with an old friend. It invokes nostalgia, and it's very entertaining and funny.

New York City plays a central character in this book, and it's one of the reasons that I like it. The writing makes me feel as though I'm right there in this unique, diverse, energetic, exciting city. I have always wanted to live in New York, and the story has me living vicariously.

If you're hoping for this book to be a continuation of Sex and the City and its characters, you'll be disappointed. This book fast-forwards twenty years from the original SATC setting and the author reflects on the ups and downs of sex, dating, relationships after fifty in the fast paced NYC life through snippets and commentary. These topics might seem depressing, but there is a lot of humor injected throughout and the story is very entertaining. There are many LOL moments.

The book also covers kids, marriage, divorce and death, and the pressures on women to look youthful and do cosmetic surgery. 40+ women might feel vulnerable to the situations mentioned, and relate to the trials and tribulations in the book. I definitely learned some new terms and was educated on the latest enhancement procedures.

The book has short stories, facts, statistics, and social commentary. Feminists will appreciate it. It's not for everyone, but the target audience will find it a very entertaining, funny, quick read.

Jesus, It’s Not Tales From the Crypt: YES, There is Still Sex in the City

What do the entitled and divorced do when they grow older? Own three places to live, complain about money, and talk about sex and their friends (including a RHNY) with coded names. Sex in the City author Candice Bushnell’s latest memoir is more like her first (and best) than any of the novels in between (which are good!) but maybe she should have let sleeping Standard Poodles lie--she got the MNB (my new boyfriend) and a place in the country, what else does she want?

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I can’t even fathom Carrie Bradshaw as a 60 year old single woman and yes I know Carrie was a fictional character! Candace writes about her friends and their respective love lives and dating. She takes a look at Tinder and younger men who date older women. She and her friends are dealing with aging parents, moving back home with teenage sons and friends who choose sides in the divorce.

I enjoyed this quick read but don’t think anyone under 50 could really relate. Maybe as a cautionary tale...

I found this book to be choppy. A bunch of little stories put together. I really loved the sex and the city books and had high hopes for this one.

This is definitely an up to date version of Sex in the City. I particularly liked the emphasis on online dating, the age of dating apps, the woes of catfishing, and hyping yourself online. Reading Sex in the City is so different these days because someone born in the mid-90's like me can't totally relate but with this book, I found myself going yup, exactly. That's it.

It was written with a nice flow that I never found confusing and I liked that I didn't have to think too too hard when reading it. It will be the perfect summer read.

Thank you, Candace Bushnell for writing this book! I'm in my 40s and love the way you've written about life in your 50s and 60s. There are not enough books written about older women!

I love all of Candace’s books. This one was great, but felt choppy., more like short stories than one novel. Some of the stories were amazing, some less amazing.

would make the book interesting to me. Secondly, I was not exposed that much to Sex in the City. I only saw a few carefully edited versions of the show on broadcast television.

I did not like the first part of the book. The book was too full of the typical stereotypes of middle aged women. They are dumped by men. Men prefer younger women. Middle age women spend a lot to get cosmetic surgery to look young. The beginning of the book appears to be a collection of vignettes. However, the main character’s life does move forward and at the end of the book has pulled her life more together.

The second part of the book is better. I enjoyed a section on young women a Tinder dating. I also enjoyed the narrator's experiences of having a friend’s child over for the summer and imaging what it would be like to be a mother. The second part of the book is also a little bit more upbeat then the beginning. I would expect a book by Candance Bushnell to make women feel good about themselves.

I didn't quite enjoy this book, even though I tried. I had to force myself to finish, just to see if there was a part of it I could review positively.
First of all, I could identify the narrator as middle-age, I kept reminding myself that she's supposed to be in her 50s, although it sounded more like a twenty-something trying to describe what happens when you approach 50 (or even 60).
The stories where hard to connect, and I still don't know if they are meant to be real life stories (they didn't strike me as real), or fiction (but again, they were not good fiction).
I wouldn't recommend this book.
Thanks NetGalley and teh publisher for allowing me to read and ARC of this book.