"Sex and the City" scribe Candace Bushnell pens book about sex in New York

Grade: B+

Candace Bushnell paints a fantasy world for her audience. She paints a world where martini cocktails are served nightly, summers are spent exclusively in the Hamptons and the luggage is always Louis Vuitton.

Bushnell knows best about upper class sex, as a former sex and lifestyle columnist for the New York Post and author of the book "Sex and the City". The hit HBO comedy series is an adapted compilation of Bushnell's columns.

She likes to name drop, and does it often in her newest novel "Four Blondes." The book, unlike "Sex and the City," is four separate vignettes about four separate women - all blondes who clothe themselves exclusively in Gucci and Prada.

As demonstrated by the leading blondes of the book, Bushnell has a gift for character development - a surprising feat for a New York newspaper columnist.