Amy has to work professionally with her former best friend Tara, former because Tara ran off with Amy’s fiancé Stuart. Tara and Stuart are now living a seemingly blissful married life, and Tara wrote a book about it which Amy is assigned to publicize. To cope, Amy invents a fiancé of her own, a famous author who will make Tara jealous. Complications ensue. ( )

I really enjoyed this. As with almost every book I read lately - did they pass a law or something? - this one is told from alternating perspectives.

Part 1 is devoted to Amy. She tells the story of how Tara, her former best friend, stole Amy's rich and successful fianc̩ and married him instead. This, unsurprisingly, results in the end of the friendship. Amy spends years in therapy trying to get over this double betrayal by Tara and Stuart.

The former friends run into each other four years later on the streets of Manhattan. Tara, looking beautiful, raves about her wonderful marriage to Stuart and their fabulous house in Long Island. She asks Amy condescendingly how she is doing and Amy invents a great fianc̩ of her own. They part company.

In a ridiculous coincidence, it turns out that Tara has written a lifestyle book called "Simply Beautiful" which has been purchased by L&T, the publishing house Amy works for. Guess who has to manage the publicity for the book? Amy. It is really a silly setup; but once you stop rolling your eyes about it, kind of fun.

Tara relentlessly presses Amy for more details about her fianc̩, and instead of 'fessing up, Amy schemes to come up with one. She quickly goes through various candidates among her male acquaintances, trying and failing to find someone remotely impressive. To her surprise she convinces L&T's star author Tony Stiles, to play along with her charade. Tony happens to be the favorite author of Tara and Stuart, and he agrees for reasons of his own to pose as Amy's besotted lover during various outings with the other couple.

By the time the focus switched perspective in Part 2, I thought Amy was a complete nitwit; so even though she was the villain of the piece up to this point, I was very sympathetic to Tara's point of view. Especially as we learn that Tara has not been completely honest about her "Simply Beautiful" life with Stuart.

The two women unravel each other's secrets, work through their past hurts, and ultimately join forces to solve a mystery and rediscover their friendship. It's all very unbelievable but fun. ( )

Best Enemies by Jane Heller (Audiobook)
Narrated by Rachel Fulginiti

3 Stars - Jealousy, Lies, Envy .. with a hint of romance. This book had more lying than I have seen before in a book. Lies on top of lies. It's a wonder there was a happy ending.

Amy was so worried about what Tara thought of her, that much of this book was spent on how she could one up her. I found it a bit tiresome after awhile and at points, the fact that she was taking things a bit too far on her revenge actually lowered my respect of her.

This book did come with a side dish of romance. I usually like it as the main course, however this one was sweet… once Amy got herself together.

The Narrator did a good job on the voices. She was clear and easy to listen too. It was a decent way to pass some time.
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This book, is about how two best friends became the worst enemies. The main character was engaded to some guy she was seeing for a few years. Comming home from work she ends up catching her best friend sleeping with her fiance. The best friend explains how they didnt mean to hurt her in anyway but they had feelings for each other and was gonna come and talk to the main character about it. The main character ends up canceling the wedding and ending her friendship with her best friend. 4 years has went by and the main character is jogging in the streets of new york city and bumbs into her ex-best friend. Her best friend look really good and probably was having a great life with her ex-fiance. The main character ends up lieing to her ex-best friend saying that she has been dating someone for the last 2 years... The main character is a book publisher at a big company. Later on the book she finds out that her ex-best friend is going to be her new client and would have to sell and publish her book. The main character is tottaly against it because she hates her and she doesn't want to make her ex-best friends life even bettter then her own. The ex-best friend invites the main character over to her new home with her ex-fiance and tell her to bring her long-term boyfriend with her. The main character brings along a client that's an author and is very snobby. She has to lie to her client and saying they are going on a date to watch a movie but they need to stop by this client of her to talk about the book. Which is not true. The ex-fiance and the ex-best friend are inlove with the client that the main character is dating. They love his books. Through out, their visit they end up staying over and have to sleep together in a room that only has 1 bed.

well im going to stop now, because basically im telling you the whole story, but this story is full of adventure, love and drama, and you will find out how the main character gets away with all the lies she says to her ex-best friend and her ex-fiance and how she deals with them. Read it its a really good book, i enjoyed it. :) ( )