The J.A.P. Chronicles:

Sweetly sour but fun and lively, "The JAP Chronicles" is an excellent novel that will fill your days and nights with sinfully good humor. Seven bunkmates at an elite (and I do mean elite) summer camp are filmed years later in adulthood by the subject of their childhood torments who has grown up to be a documentary film maker. We delight in the fall from grace of each of the seven higher-than-thous. "The JAP Chronicles" is a welcome recommendation that I enjoyed to the same degree as "The Twins of Tribeca", "My Fractured Life", and "The Starter Wife."

Regardless of what certain people say about the JAP stereotype, this is a witty, charming book. Its title and cover are what drew me in, and I haven't put it down since! Hilarious and heartfelt, readers can easily identify with the characters (some more than others), and the narrative moves at an engaging pace. Fully recommended! "Nice Jewish girls" will get the biggest kick out of it.

Although Rose's first novel has an inflammatory title, it goes beyond the offensiveness of the stereotype of Jewish American Princesses. Rose seems to know that the only way to dispel a stereotype or label is to embrace it and show how ridiculous any stifling category is. She does this by looking at seven JAP's that each have thier own story and personality...the only common bond being a love for shopping and a religion. The story's of the bunkmates are interwoven nicely with humor and no apologies. I especially enjoyed the guide to getting married. Overall, this is a great read and deserves to be given a look beyond the title.

Seven Jewish women, formerly bunkmates at summer camp 17 years ago, have a date with destiny in the form of a camp reunion to be filmed for a documentary by one of the bunkmates. Unbenownst to all except the filmmaker, the reunion will feature the uncovering of a dark secret buried all this time between three of the women -- and perhaps even a fair measure of revenge. Ultimately, however, redemption and forgiveness are arrived at and the women find a new happiness with themselves and with each other. And all of this is incrediubly FUNNY!! Author Isabel Rose paints amazingly riveting comic portraits of her seven Princesses, creating side-splitting humor by placing them in situations they are usually far too ill-equipped to handle. But handle them they do, and in the process, achieve the growth and gratification they have long sought but never really knew how to find. Rose expertly illustrates a materialistic world in which nothing is everything and everything is nothing -- then shatters that world and shows us how the womens' deeper human longings drive them to discover what really matters in their lives. A great book. Uproariously funny, very very sexy, pretty darn poignant, and an ending that will draw some tears.