Split Ends–A Review

Yeah, yeah, I know. Book review sites are supposed to have reviews on the latest, most recently published books. But that’s not what I’m about. I just want to give you a good read and if that read was published a whole four years (that’s years, not eternities) ago, that’s what I’m gonna do.

I just finished reading the book, Split Ends by Kristen Billerbeck and what fun it was. Yes, Ms. Billerbeck has a fedora fetish (her leading men wear them in at least two of her books), but you will too, once you get to know these guys.

Split Ends is about a young hairdresser needing to reinvent her life after spending the first 26 years of it in a small town, where she is mostly known as the daughter of the town floozy-slash-drunk. She heads to Hollywood, hoping to make it big as a hairdresser to the stars only to discover Hollywood is like high-school-popularity-wars on steroids. Go figure!

But before you think, oh, another poor-girl-trying-to-make-it-big story, don’t. Yes, it is a common theme, but that’s because it is a common struggle. The difference here is how Ms. Billerbeck does it. Lots of fun and wonderful insights … like how one can remove the look of pores by getting a “blue peel.” A must read!!!

Split Ends is of the genre known as Chick-Lit. If you are unfamiliar with the term, that means it’s written in first-person, present-tense, has a good dose of what I like to call snarky, self-deprecating humor, and often the main character is obsessed with exclusive clothes and designer coffees … or was that the other way around? But Sarah Claire, though snarky and self-deprecating, is not obsessed with designer clothes or exclusive coffees. That’s why I like her. She’s cute and sweet (even if a little snarky) and flawed. Oh how I relate! A genuine human being struggling not to sin in a sinful world.

And let’s not forget Dane. I know, soap-opera name, but he’d have to have one if he’s gonna wear a fedora. He’s intelligent, attentive, a little quirky and carries that one flaw Sarah Claire wants nothing to do with. But isn’t that how God works in our own lives. He gives us the one thing we don’t think we can handle to show us, with Him (God, not Dane), anything is possible. And that, my friends, is a Big T Truth.

Read Split Ends this summer and enjoy!