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Book Review of The Washingtonienne

The Washingtonienne
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If you like to flip through US Magazine or the National Enquirer while standing on the grocery checkout line than you will like this book. Jessica Cutler has listed this book as fiction (probably to save herself from more lawsuits) but you will see that this novel is about her life and how she lived it in DC. Trashy, scandalous and downright mean Jacqueline Turner (i.e. Jessica Cutler) is a character your will love to hate. She starts a private blog telling her friends about her drunken one night stands, snorting coke in some obscene places, exchanging sex for rent, the bizarre sexual requests of married men, ranting on about how much better looking she is than everyone else and the one guy (coworker) she thinks she loves but yet didnt hesitate to tell everyone at work that he likes to be spanked. Her excessive lifestyle soon catches up to her when her private blog becomes a public scandal on Capitol Hill and gets her labeled as a DC slut. You hope she would have a revelation about herself and her life and what really got her there and I do believe there are glimpses of that but I think in the end all she seemed to learn was you can get whatever you want for free by lying and cheating and there are never any real consequences because there will always be a sucker that will pay for a pretty girl dressed in designer clothes tab.