Some like it steamy, some like it romantic, and some just like it haute.

This is the review of two different products of media. Actually it’s two very different reviews, and please hang with me for both.

To preview, a summary of Some Like It Haute, the novel by Julie Dam.

Alex is the type of girl who manages to make it through everything out of luck, maybe some talent, but little else. She is surrounded by the finest things in life, without appreciation for the little things. And we hate her … yet we still want to be in her place, in her shoes.

And a summary of Some Like it Haute, the blog by Alex Simons.

We also still hate [Alex], with brand new every day pictures of Prada and other designer shoes. [But] we love [the blogger] for knowing so well the insight to our souls. Finally! Another person who gets it—and she explains it so well. It’s very well written…

A novel by Julie Dam, called Some Like It Haute, was released today. The book tells the story of Alex Simons, a former-awkward Texan just trying to make it in the fashion world as a writer for the famous British Weekly. Of course, she’s also trying to hide her old self in her expensive-designer-clad new exterior. She has lost any sense of all identity amid the Manolos, Chanel, and the snobbitude that follows her barely-afforded new lifestyle. Alex is living a lie, and suffers for it.

The whole plot is a fantasy that I found hard to stomach while reading. - Example: In grade school, Alex had a sexy French teacher, whom she meets in Paris, as he’s now working in a department store. All believable by stretch (I find the class-wide school girl crushes ingenuine and a bit disagreeable to my psyche’s sensitive palette) but then there’s this obstacle: he is finely dressed himself, it’s mentioned that as a teacher, he only wore custom designed shoes. - Yes, Monsieur Jacques is out of wack with the reality I know.

Then there’s the love interest. I couldn’t get into Nick, for the fact that he’s the typical hot guy every woman wants. (Well, in the story they want him, and we’re all supposed to want him.) I prefer my characters human and imperfect (can’t you tell, already?). The story gets a lot pop culture from there, when we learn Nick is on a reality show. - Do I like that twist? Think it’s a clever use of the au courant to reach us better? - Well, it’s a little tongue-in-chic hilarious that the story is partly set on a reality show, the type of show we know has little reality, when this book is much the same.

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