Vacation read alert! Housewives fans will want to dive right into this fun, sexy, shady novel from one of our ATL favorites. Don’t make us check you, boo!
In this episode, we discuss the 2017 novel from Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Sheree Whitfield.
Caitlin: M my kindle was like, if you like this book, because I was reading, like, you’ll also like, just, how’s my not, you’re wrong. You lie. Hi, this is Caitlin.
Sharon: And this is Sharon.
Caitlin: And welcome to Real Housewives on Real Housewives, where we unravel housewives story threads and keep the tea flowing.
Sharon: So cheeky.
Caitlin: Hold on to your reading glasses.
Sharon: Today we’re digging into wives, fiancees, and side chicks of hot Lana by Charay Whitfield from the Real Housewives of Atlanta, written in 2017. Yep. So I will summarize. I’ll read the back of the book to you. Sasha Wellington has put herself on the fast track to success. Fresh out of college, she’s got her career as a fashion designer and entrepreneur all planned out. Her only wild card is choosing which city to launch from. When fate points her to Atlanta, she sets out to make her dreams come true. Before she knows it, Sasha’s befriended by two rival bffs. First, there’s Norman, savvy stylist to Atlanta, stars from the a list on down. Then there’s Paris, an outrageous personality with a questionable nightlife. Between their antics, Sasha’s beyond grateful for her co worker, Casey. Married to an NBA player, Casey’s got class. But there’s more than meets the eye to being a baller’s wife. And the more time Sasha spends among the movers and shakers, the clearer it gets that like on reality tv, the truth lies behind the scenes. Still, she’s not worried about getting caught up in the drama until she’s romanced by a baller of her own. Can she stick to her game plan? Or will Hotlanna derail her future and reveal a side of herself even she didn’t know existed?
Caitlin: Okay, so this is a novel. This is fiction based a little bit in reality, but it’s fiction. So we will be spoiling some mean it’s a novel, but we can’t not talk about it. Um, the good part is, though, the way it is structured, it starts out pretty much with the end at the beginning and then goes back to how you get to that end. So it really doesn’t ruin as much as you think. Okay, what is the best part? What do we like about this book? The hot tea.
Sharon: So what’s interesting is I noticed when I answered these things, a lot of my answers are like, well, compared to Giselle, my word m. And I don’t know, I guess because they were the only fiction of housewives.
Caitlin: Mhm.
Sharon: And, um, they were both kind of about young women finding their first love. Um, but anyway, unlike Giselle’s book, I really enjoyed the writing of this book. Um, and then I enjoyed her occasional shout out to reality show housewives. And she talked about her, she line, um, and then one time, like Sasha, the main character, she throws a drink at this girl Paris. And that was housewives classic. And then she wrote the fights really well.
Caitlin: I could picture them happening like a reality episode.
Sharon: And she wrote, who going to check me? Boo. Yes.
Caitlin: That was the best. Yeah, so I love those I wrote. This is what I wanted Giselle O’Brien’s book to be. It’s a fun read and it’s very charade. Like, I could hear her voice through the whole thing. And it’s like, considering she didn’t come out to be a, uh, great novelist, she wrote this as an like to reality fans and everything. What you want is to hear her voice. But it’s not confusing. Like, like, it had Sheree’s spirit, it had Sheree’s jokeiness, it had like, seriousness. It had traits of Sheree. You could picture Sheree.
Sharon: Mhm.
Caitlin: But it wasn’t Sheree. And the lines weren’t blurred. Like in Giselle, it was like, is this you or is this not you? And for this, it was like, this is based on topics and things that she has a familiarity. But it didn’t have to just be like, well, this is so, um, like she married football player Bob Whitfield. So clearly the basketball player aspect of it. It’d be interesting to know how much of this really is related to Bob.
Sharon: Um, yeah, but it didn’t feel like this veiled autobiography.
Caitlin: She actually said on an episode of Real Housewives of Atlanta when she was talking about the book, she told her ex husband that he was in the book under a different name. And she also hinted that Nene Leakes was in the book as a former stripper. So Nene is Paris? Yes. Oh, wow. Now, I pictured Dwight, the guy who commented on her fashion show, and said it was like a fashion show with no fashion. Like they used to be friends. I pictured him as her gay best friend in the book. I don’t know if that’s totally true. Um, and then my other question, I wondered because somebody else kind of mentioned it when I was looking around on the Internet, but was Kim the Casey? Because Kim, um, was married to a football player. That’s all a mess right now, the whole Kim and Corey mess. But I kind of wondered, since they’re still friends, if she was. Anyway, I just think there’s more based on than I originally thought, which is kind of fun, too, because it’s also sort of fun to play that game. Like, who might these characters be based on in the reality? Yeah. Um, what was the worst part? What didn’t you like about the book, the iced tea?
Sharon: I actually have nothing specifically.
Caitlin: Yeah, me either. The only thing I. That is, like, you’re a little bit waiting for the other shoe to drop. Like, you know, the fairy tale won’t last. Um, and that’s a little bit hard sometimes. It’s not a romance novel that’s probably going to have a super happy ending. Yeah, but you know that, and instead you’re just trying to figure out how they get to that point. And that’s an interesting way to write it, too. Oh, also, here’s my big thing. No, there was an R. Kelly reference. No, because this was 2017, so unless she was foreshadowing that he’s a bad guy and that’s why she threw it. But we knew at that point that r. Kelly is a horrible human being. So why was that thrown in as.
Sharon: A song was still sexy.
Caitlin: Well, I know, but there was a lot of other sexy songs. I don’t know, that made me uncomfortable.
Sharon: It actually does, uh, fit the whole.
Caitlin: She mentioned another song, but that’s what I thought. Maybe back. I was like, maybe that’s why it’s like, maybe the point was to be a bit of a red flag.
Sharon: Don’t act like you’re never going to listen to an R. Kelly song again. I really haven’t because now I feel like a jerk.
Caitlin: And Chris Brown, I don’t. Let’s make a list of musicians that.
Sharon: We won’t listen to.
Caitlin: Okay. How long did it take you to finish the book? Did you have to force yourself to read it or couldn’t put it down?
Sharon: I wanted to read it after the page turner. Yeah, it read really fast. It probably took me 7 hours over two days.
Caitlin: Yeah, it took me about a day, but just like, reading the whole day.
Sharon: And I think it’s the perfect book. Like, let’s say you’re taking your kids somewhere and you’re like, I have half an hour of piano. I can read it here. And then before bed, I could read it here because it’s not like you can keep on the story without having to go back and you’re not like.
Caitlin: Oh, what did I miss? Or I forgot. Yeah, I know. I totally agree. I think that’s a great point. Were, um, there parts of the books you need to talk about?
Sharon: Yes. Okay, go. Some parts well, this kind of, some parts were more risque than I was expecting.
Caitlin: I put too, it’s steamy, but not super steamy.
Sharon: And I wrote, I’m not mad about it.
Caitlin: Yeah, I wasn’t mad about it.
Sharon: And I just like the fact that the character was willing to go into the steamy romance because I felt like the cliche is she’s this driven woman. The cliche is like Giselle’s book where, no, I’m driven. I’m too so m. I like that.
Caitlin: I also felt like it was a little bit, in a way, it was like Sheree kind of embracing her sexy side, and she felt like she had to kind of toe a certain line because she got all that crap for dating Martell.
Sharon: Mhm.
Caitlin: And in this book, I felt it was a little bit, like, good for her. And the character was kind of unapologetically like, I’m not going to apologize for being a woman and wanting to sleep with somebody or kiss somebody or not follow the rules of a date. And it’s like, I felt like that was kind of a refreshing side of a heroine to see, especially in a romance book.
Sharon: Yeah. Um, you go ahead.
Caitlin: Oh, I love all of her phrases. Making a Wayne who go and check me, boo. Okay.
Sharon: I loved.
Caitlin: I know I may not be the loudest rice Krispy in the bowl. Cut me some slack. I loved that. I loved. Meow was the only answer Sasha could hear in her head. And trust that sound wasn’t coming from the curious cat. I like that one.
Sharon: I actually remember that.
Caitlin: I also like, if that means I’m a ho, then ho, ho, ho, merry Christmas. There was just so many things, like, she’d be like, do we have a problem? I beat her down with words. There was just so many things I could picture Sheree saying, setting me up for drama. There was just so much that it was like, ah, it felt like an episode of Housewives.
Sharon: And I love that, um, I wrote this kind of goes to force the main character, Sasha, she wasn’t super cliche. She had some different facets to her. She was driven, but she was still getting off track a little bit here and there. She was still driven. She wasn’t all or nothing like you see in these.
Caitlin: Yeah, absolutely. And that’s refreshing to see as, like, a woman and as someone reading a.
Sharon: Um, I also, I like Norman. His character was a little cliche, but I really enjoyed him. But I could picture him, and he was so, uh, yeah, I feel like.
Caitlin: There’S always that person that kind of has to drive a book forward.
Sharon: Yeah.
Caitlin: And it’s actually nice when it’s a side character and not the main character. Giselle would narrate things in her book. So it’s like in this, they use the side characters to sometimes move the story along. And I’d much prefer that.
Sharon: And I thought it was interesting that Paris and Norman didn’t like each other. And I wasn’t thinking this is based in reality at all. Maybe it is, but, um, I was thinking that it was another way. Because Sasha isn’t seeing Casey and Paris necessarily how she should. Yes, that maybe Norman is like saying, hey, red flags over here.
Caitlin: Pay attention.
Sharon: Like he sees it when she doesn’t.
Caitlin: Right.
Sharon: Letting us, the reader, know. Mhm.
Caitlin: So we should be like a little bit on edge about more. Do you have more? Do you want to go on to what makes the book?
Sharon: Um. Oh, no, I have more. Okay. Can you go? I thought it was a good job with the twist at the ending, um, where Terrace had dated him, because the whole time she actually did keep the suspense where Paris was alluding to something that she had. And then I was wondering, was Paris’s kid his? I know.
Caitlin: I had that thought too.
Sharon: I mean, I don’t.
Caitlin: Yeah, yeah, that might be true now that you said. I thought maybe. I just thought of that.
Sharon: I have more. Sorry. Um. Uh, the thing that I didn’t like, actually, at the end, it seemed very abrupt to me. Where all of a sudden it felt super abrupt. I said, like, mhm. Oh, I’m this hot, fun guy. Then she gets married, and then all of a sudden he rips off this mask and says, more, I got you.
Caitlin: I am evil. This was my plan exactly.
Sharon: I wondered if it could have been less.
Caitlin: A little more drawn out.
Sharon: Yeah, drawn out. Uh, less so in your face, less beating over the head with it.
Caitlin: Do you know what I wondered? I wondered if she wrote the book without doing the end at the beginning. And I kind of wondered if they pulled that chapter out kind of before, because it was all explaining that he wasn’t there for the wedding night. And then all that stuff kind of happened. And I sort of wondered if they took that first chapter where she explains everything that happened to Norman from the end. Like she wrote it normally chronologically, and then whoever the editor was was. It’d be really more interesting if people understood why. And it would be less of a bummer to read if he did it this way. But then they didn’t fill it in because I wonder if we’d gone to the coffee shop and kind of learned the stuff and then learned what we learned if it would have been less of, like, a shock. But instead, it was like, even though we knew it. You’re right. It went from the fairy tale to bam, the fairy tale is over.
Sharon: And I just didn’t.
Caitlin: Unless she was trying to make that thing where it’s like, you just are so in love that you don’t see it and it switch flips, even though it doesn’t really.
Sharon: That’s a good point. I never thought of it that way. Because she was blindsided.
Caitlin: Yeah.
Sharon: Um, the other thing, I didn’t get why, and you can tell me what you think. Why was parents wanting to get Married so badly? I get that it makes him look like a family guy, but then if he’s married, he has to hide his flings because then he might not look like a family guy. If he’s cheating, isn’t it better to just.
Caitlin: Why did he want kids so badly?
Sharon: Yeah, because that kept her there. I didn’t fully understand him wanting to get married.
Caitlin: I didn’t understand why he needed to trap her. Exactly. I felt like it would have made more sense if she was like, well, we have to get married because I’m pregnant. Yeah, I didn’t understand that because I.
Sharon: Guess he was saying, well, I don’t want to have to spend time wooing you as a girlfriend now I just have you and I can treat you.
Caitlin: Is it sort of like. Is there, like, a sports beard? Almost like I want the person that makes me look like the respectable, not the stereotypical sports person. Like, I have a wife and I’m grounded and I have kids and I’m normal and I’m not that player, and thereby it helps them play the game better under the radar. Okay, see, that must be it, because.
Sharon: She kind of alluded to that. But I guess I wasn’t thinking. I guess I was thinking, why does he care if he comes off like a family man when he’s this big basketball player?
Caitlin: But, my God, do you think that’s what Juan Dixon’s doing to Robin? Maybe I just had a light bulb moment.
Sharon: Ding, ding, ding. She’s going to come out with a picture.
Caitlin: You need to talk to Robin. Don’t use the person. Just all used if Robin wrote the book.
Sharon: Um, and then at the end, I wasn’t too mad at Casey when she’s laughing with Paris, even though it’s kind of like she’s evil and she’s like, oh, luxury. She doesn’t know. But what she was saying was true. That she may not want to be a baller’s wife and she may get pushed know.
Caitlin: And she kind of did tell her that at the.
Sharon: Yeah, so it was kind of like, she’s a bad person, but she wasn’t exactly. She said it all along. Mhm.
Caitlin: No, I agree. I didn’t make her out to be a villain, I don’t think. But it was.
Sharon: Casey was really. I didn’t have to think of Casey.
Caitlin: It kind of felt like that housewives moment where you’re like, well, the other team has noticed that your team messed up. And sometimes you’re like, well, yeah. I mean, they did. Yeah. All right. What makes this book unique? Um, I actually love the starting with the end and knowing we’d end up where we’d end up.
Sharon: Huh.
Caitlin: And discovering how she got there. And I thought it gave a lot of insight to sheree on how she got into a bad relationship because we’ve kind of drawn up more and more of how bad that relationship with Bob was. And it was interesting seeing that character ignore the red flags, make the excuses, second guess herself, which we all do, and also just to see how easy it is to do and how easy it is to be caught up in. And like, there were certain times where it was like she wanted to not see it and she knew that and it was a conscious choice. And I don’t think we often admit how often that is true. Um, I also thought, I bet this was really therapeutic for Sheree as she wrote it, because it was kind of like she got to write out her red flags and be like, yeah, I should have seen that. I should have seen that. Um, but it’s interesting how easily we don’t see it. So that in a romance book kind of is interesting.
Sharon: I really thought those red flags when I was reading it, they really hit me.
Caitlin: Me too.
Sharon: Like, he’s angry when he’s cleaning up the spilled wine. And I was just like, oh. And I was kind of cringing.
Caitlin: I know, run.
Sharon: And I could almost feel like her kind of cringing, but writing it off. Mhm. That part was, I thought was really.
Caitlin: Well done because I think we as women do that a lot because she kind of saw. She did.
Sharon: She’s not acting like she didn’t see anything. She’s like, well, I did see this, but, uh-huh. I didn’t really think too much about it exactly.
Caitlin: No. I thought it was a really brave way to show those things without hitting you over the head with.
Sharon: Mhm. It, um, what surprised you in the book? Um.
Caitlin: It is in fact drawn from Shrey. As much as I think it was really cool to see how much her love for fashion comes out. And I think why her she by sheree mishaps were so upsetting to her. Because if that character’s background is kind of based on how she wanted her life to go, it was kind of interesting to see what different paths she might have. Also, like, I think sometimes you think, okay, so the housewives just want to pick something to make money off of. And it made me think. I think the reason sheree has been so upset about the fashion, I think she really does have a genuine love for it. And she probably started her life being like, I want a boutique. This is what I want. This is what I want to do. And the fact that she’s had so many with it, and then when the other women kind of like brush it off, it’s upsetting to her because it’s how she sees herself. This is the goal she wanted. This is who she wanted to be. And so when she’s had those misses with that clothing line, I think that’s why she gets so upset about it. And it was interesting to see that. I was surprised.
Sharon: Yeah.
Caitlin: Also, I think it’s not easy to create a main character that is like, you know, the story is going to end up wrong. You know, she’s going to make bad choices and you know that from the beginning.
Sharon: Mhm.
Caitlin: But you still really like her and you’re still really pulling for that not to be true.
Sharon: Yes.
Caitlin: And I think that’s hard. And she did that. And I was surprised. I know.
Sharon: I kept thinking, well, maybe it’s going to be okay.
Caitlin: I know.
Sharon: She’Ll run.
Caitlin: Maybe we should run away.
Sharon: Um, for what surprised you? I put how much I liked it because after Giselle’s book, I was really worried.
Caitlin: I was terrified.
Sharon: And I was like, oh, this is a good book.
Caitlin: I was scared.
Sharon: Um, do you have any lingering questions?
Caitlin: Um, I wanted to know, and I didn’t look it up, so I put it on here. I wanted to know how well the book did. It’s a very targeted audience, I was thinking. And there were some online reviews that complained about that. But then I was thinking, okay, but so is a biography about a housewife. It’s very targeted to, it’s not like, again, it’s kind of like Mauricio’s book, too.
Sharon: It’s an.
Caitlin: Who’s picking that, uh, up? Besides people who know exactly.
Sharon: Books on american history is targeted. People.
Caitlin: So targeted. But like, so is Vicki’s book about know it’s like any, let’s not bring that up. But all books are targeted. But I do wonder, it’s not like the book you would just pick up necessarily off of a shelf if you didn’t have a familiarity, probably with housewives.
Sharon: It’s kind of like when I look at it, I’m like, oh, it’s like a fun mhm chiclet. Not too curious.
Caitlin: Exactly. But do you think that someone who doesn’t have a housewives background would like it?
Sharon: Yeah, absolutely. Because would like it as far as they’re reading it or would pick it.
Caitlin: Up, would like it as far as they’re reading.
Sharon: Yes.
Caitlin: Or would they be like, I don’t get the inside jokes instead?
Sharon: No. Because there really weren’t that many of the housewives inside jokes.
Caitlin: That’s true.
Sharon: I mean, there were a few here and there, but the story stood out. Yeah.
Caitlin: I guess the layers just make it more fun and more clever if you know them. But it’s not like it takes away from it. Oh, yeah.
Sharon: That never even occurred to me that someone that wasn’t a housewife’s fan.
Caitlin: I wondered, some of the online reviews made me kind of sucking.
Sharon: I’m really surprised people thought that.
Caitlin: Yeah. Um, how honest.
Sharon: Wait, no, I didn’t finish. Well, sorry. I have a lingering question.
Caitlin: Okay, well, mine was done, so.
Sharon: My lingering question. Okay. When I finished it, I read the epilogue. I read the book, and then before I went back and reread the epilogue.
Caitlin: Yeah. I was like, is there a sequel? Okay. Some people online said it was written. I wonder if they wrote it thinking she could maybe get a second or third.
Sharon: And then I went and reread the epilogue and I was like, oh, maybe. But I still kind of thought there was space for a sequel.
Caitlin: I think there was too, because the.
Sharon: Whole thing is, in the end, it’s like, what is she going to do? Well, she’s going to, you know what she’s going to say, he’s being a jerk and I’m going to take his money and build myself what I want.
Caitlin: No, I would like to read that book.
Sharon: Yes. I want to know what happens to Sasha. I want to see how she deals.
Caitlin: I think too. So I think like Charay, write another book. I think she really should.
Sharon: I thought that would be perfect.
Caitlin: That’s why I was wondering too, did the book not do as well as they wanted it to do and so they didn’t extend a second? Or was she just know that’s all I had in me for writing?
Sharon: Yeah, and then I actually have a question for Caitlin here. What would you have done if you were Sasha at the end of the book? So after you find out he’s cried.
Caitlin: In my car, just like Vicki in her book? I don’t know. I don’t know whether I would.
Sharon: She’s pregnant.
Caitlin: Yeah. I think I probably would have done the same thing.
Sharon: Me too.
Caitlin: I’d like to say that I’d do something different. I don’t know if I would have gotten married so fast when I found out I was pregnant. Some people are much more like, you’re pregnant, you have to get married. I might have waited and been like, we’ll get married after I have the baby.
Sharon: Mhm.
Caitlin: And kind of see, because I’m not sure I would have wanted to rush.
Sharon: Although he kind of pushed it.
Caitlin: He did kind of push it, but I think I might have pushed back on that. I might have been like, because, uh, if, uh, it was my first and I was hurting into fashion, I would have wanted the wedding and the dress and the whole thing. So I think that’s where I might have differed. And then maybe that would have saved me a little bit in the end, because how long could he play the game for at that point? We still play for a whole year. I don’t know.
Sharon: Yeah.
Caitlin: Um, but no, I probably would have done the same thing.
Sharon: Mhm. Okay.
Caitlin: That makes me sad that I’m not like a stronger heroine.
Sharon: You’re no better than Sasha.
Caitlin: I’m no better than Sasha. She’s probably better than.
Sharon: M. How honest did you think the author was?
Caitlin: Well, um, it’s fiction. Yeah, that’s what I wrote.
Sharon: I wrote, well, not applicable. It’s fiction. But I mean, I’m sure some of it we know she was married to.
Caitlin: I just wrote in an honesty sense of the fact that it’s not confusing. Like.
Sharon: Mhm.
Caitlin: Know, bravo for that.
Sharon: Um, did reading this book change your view of the author or the housewives franchise?
Caitlin: Um, it made me like her even more. Like, I was already super impressed by her at Bravo Con. She was so sweet to us. We did the photos with her.
Sharon: Yes. Oh, man, she was so nice.
Caitlin: She was so nice.
Sharon: She was so pretty up close, and.
Caitlin: She was like the sweetest. I mean, there was no diva. Yeah, she’s just fun. She was like laughing with other women that were up there, but she was also kind of like in charge of the group.
Sharon: She is one of those people, like, you feel like you know her.
Caitlin: There was like an energy from her that just felt so good and it’s like, I love her.
Sharon: Yeah, same here. I love her. Made me love her even more. And it made me feel justified in spending $40 on a she by Sheree water bottle. So I want to get on and order the water bottle.
Caitlin: I feel like I think you’ve earned it.
Sharon: Yes.
Caitlin: Yeah, I agree. I wonder what I can get.
Sharon: But it’s also like that, but different.
Caitlin: I don’t want to both have water.
Sharon: The hoodies, and the pants.
Caitlin: I know I may have to look. Yeah, that’s true. I don’t know if I’m ready for that commitment. So I read this article. This is a little bit of a side thing, but on reality, and the lady, Mary Quinn B. Who wrote that article was like, how based in reality will Sheree’s novel be? Um, and she said, about as realistic as your average real housewives show. So Charay said, basically what I’ve done is created a reality show in print. Um, she describes that it promises realistic situations and at the same time, dripping with drama. She said, I wanted to take those very things, characteristics, issues, feelings, emotions, trials, and tribulations that play out before viewers very eyes and form characters and situations around them. Naturally, there’d be plenty of shade thrown in the pages of the book. Um, and I guess the lady also said that there was kind of a bidding war between the publishing houses over the book. So hopefully she walked away with, like, a pretty lucrative.
Sharon: Mhm.
Caitlin: Sheree said this. You know how law and order describes their episode as ripped from the News headlines? Well, let’s just say the storyline of my novel was ripped from reality show. Like, she said that to Bravo’s daily dish. And if you’re wondering if I’m referring to real Housewives of Atlanta, let’s just say if you pick the right Georgia.
Sharon: Peach, it can be quite nice.
Caitlin: But she said, unlike, um, those. Bravo, liberty’s, it’s not a memoir. She said this? Well, heck, you get to see my life play out every week, so there’s no need for me to recap that. Right, but it’s one of those things that you don’t get to see that I’ve used as a template for a book. Like, you can tell that there’s. And she released the book fall 2017, right about the time she moved into Chateau Charay M. I wonder if that helped her finish the house, which.
Sharon: Good for her.
Caitlin: Good job. All right, should we judge the book by its cover?
Sharon: Yes.
Caitlin: I love this cover. Me too.
Sharon: I wrote.
Caitlin: I love the COVID Big letters. Yeah, it’s my favorite cover. I think of any we’ve seen yet. It’s so pretty.
Sharon: Sasha is beautiful. I, um, love her outfit. I love the look on her face. She looks strong and kind of a little devious.
Caitlin: Yeah. Like she knows there’s, um, some tea.
Sharon: Exactly. And she’s in front of a house that looks like the White House. Okay. But I love that it’s a dusk, and you can see the lights kind of glowing when they’re on.
Caitlin: And in the pool there, like a rich, fancy mansion.
Sharon: I love the font is in, like, a script, which is perfect for, like, a chick book. I don’t know.
Caitlin: Chiclet.
Sharon: I don’t know.
Caitlin: Chiclet sounds, like, dumb.
Sharon: Um, you look at it, and you’re.
Caitlin: Like, ooh, I wish she booked up laying off of a thing.
Sharon: And it’s pretty.
Caitlin: It’s the first pretty cover we’ve seen, I think.
Sharon: Yeah.
Caitlin: Okay. Was there a ghostwriter? Not that I can tell.
Sharon: Yeah. I didn’t see anything.
Caitlin: And if that’s the case, I’m even more impressed.
Sharon: I know, because it is so well written.
Caitlin: It’s well written. There’s a lot of conversation, but other than that, it flows. I didn’t go put it that way.
Sharon: And you know what? I don’t read a ton of fiction. I read a lot more nonfiction. And one thing I hate about fiction, like in Giselle’s book, unnecessary detail.
Caitlin: Yes.
Sharon: Where they just describe and describe and describe, and I don’t. She did not do that. I got enough detail to see what I needed. And, uh, no more, because you can.
Caitlin: Fill in the blanks in your own. Like, I’m blown away by Sheree.
Sharon: Yeah.
Caitlin: That’s how I feel leaving this book. Okay, so, real housewives and real housewives. Thumbs up or thumbs down?
Sharon: Two thumbs up.
Caitlin: Two thumbs up. I wrote fun. Read beach, read Christmas break. Read fun.
Sharon: Yes.
Caitlin: That’s how I feel about it. It’s a good book.
Sharon: It is.
Caitlin: It’s nice to finally say that.
Sharon: Oh, my gosh. We don’t get to say that very often.
Caitlin: And really, m maybe more people should try their hand at some fiction, because, uh, as much as it’s interesting to have a story of your life, you’re on tv, and we have a story of your life. So to almost take it in a different direction is fun. Like, you’re creating fun for us. Like you’re creating an episode, like, you’re creating a season. She wrote a season, and we followed a character through a reality show, kind of in a way. And that’s what we all like doing anyway. It’s smart. She by Sheree smart. Woohoo.
Sharon: Love you.
Caitlin: All right, remember, Charay brings the drama.
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