When I started listening to this book (books on cd), I didn't want to like the characters because they weren't the same as the first book (Shoe Addicts Anonymous) and I was under the impression that this was a sequel to the first book. Only one main character of the first book appears in this one.

As I continued to listen, I did get caught up in the lives of these women and ended up enjoying the book.

The author has good skills at writing 'real' people.

I would recommend it.

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If you have read the first book in this series "Shoe Addicts Anonymous" be warned that this is not a sequel. The only person from the first book that has a large part in this one is Sandra - the agoraphobic sex phone operator.

That being said, this book is really good. It's the story of 3 women who run up unexepected debt while on a PTA-sponsored trip to Las Vegas. They become phone sex operators to pay it off.

The narrator, Orlagh Cassidy, is wonderful, especially during the phone-sex calls, when she alternates her voice between the gutteral men who call, the seductive purring tone of Tiffany and Loreen as they coo come-ons, and their actual inner thoughts during the call, which are eye-rolling and sardonically amused as they think about the ridiculousness of their conversations.

Among the audio's many laugh-out-loud sequences: shy Lurene's awkward, stammering attempts at the sexy calls, and the time one of the women gets caught up in her phone role only to have her daughter come home from school early. Cassidy's timing and delivery are perfect, making this audio even more fun than the print version.

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