I am a HUGE Sex and the City fan. I have seen every episode multiple times and still watch it every time I see it on TV. Even knowing they aren’t based on the same characters, I loved the wit and tone from the book series and absolutely HAD to read Bushnell’s new book.

Is There Still Sex in the City deals with the raw and very real aftermath of the fast faced city life. We journey through the ups and downs of sex, dating, relationships and starting over after fifty.

Though there were many parts of this book that I found a little depressing and I’m sure I am not the target demographic here, I found this book light, fun and highly enjoyable.

I would buy a copy for any of my female friends. It would make for a great conversation starter!

Thank you to NetGalley and Grove Atlantic for providing me with a copy of this book to read and give my honest opinion.

I've liked Bushnell's other books but found this one really depressing and sad. At first I was going to DNF this, but I had some free time when it didn't make sense to start another book so I did finish this. Still depressing AF. We all know that internet dating is crap and that aging is awful. Is it really necessary to remind us of this? Bushnell has always been a cynic but in prior novels she was able to find the humor in life, but this time around, even Bushnell seems to have a hard time finding the humor in all this. Thanks Net galley for allowing me to review this in advance.

I gave this book 4 stars but I rounded up from 3.5 stars. I have enjoyed Bushnells's other books "Sex and the City" and "Lipstick Jungle". This book is not my favorite book from her. While "Sex and the City" was about the fun and frivolous adventures of single women in New York, this book more like the "Where are they now?" And sadly the answer is that most of them aren't very happy. However despite the downbeat tone of the book it was a fun and fast read. Candace Bushnell writes breezy quick chapters and I finished this book quite quickly. But I think the answer to the title's question of "Is There Still Sex in the City?" was well not so much. But it was a entertaining light read nevertheless.

Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC for an honest review

Fun story, from what I read - but not really what I expected. I couldn't finish the book. I love Sex & The City so I thought I would like this.

Candace Bushnell is back with more stories from New York City and a country location she and her friends call The Village. I remember Sex in the City from a 30 to 40 something woman's view point. When I first saw that Ms. Bushnell had revisited her view points on life and love in the big Apple, I was surprised but enthused about reading it. Each journey is about friendship and people she discovers while living in Manhattan's east side. She returns to using abbreviations for her discussions on men. As usual she is blatantly honest with her views on the different situations she narrates. In each section she views the situation of her friends, people she meets at parties, or visits from an old friend with his son. Divorce, marriage and children are more a part of this publication than the dating and sex of her first novel introducing us to her world.
I admit that the first section or so was tough to get into. As I began to read more carefully about each topic I started hearing her words as the 60 + year old person that I am. I re-read the first section and became enthused about her writing. It was fun yet satisfying to know that I wasn't the only one to grow old.
If you watched the series or read her first book be certain to pick up a copy of Is There Still Sex in the City. I think you will really enjoy it.
I would like to thank Grove Press for allowing me to read this novel. It's publication date is August 6, 2019.

As a Candace Bushnell fan and a huge Sex In the City fan I was super excited to be able to read this book and it didn’t disappoint!! Yes, there is still sex in the city!!!

This book takes us right back to the world of Carrie and her friends where fabulous shoes are still relevant and NYC and The Village are the backgrounds.

In this novel we get to see how relationships start and end for the older characters. From learning about dating younger me to tinder dates to death and divorce. Everything is very relevant to issues and topics currently at the forefront of our culture.

This is a fast past easy light hearted read with tons of glamour and fan to boost. I thoroughly enjoyed it and am so grateful to Net Galley and Grove Atlantic for allowing me an advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

I liked this book like I like snack food-it was light and airy while still having enough truth underneath the fluff to feel substantial.
Some things I particularly enjoyed: Candace's writing style feels like a conversation with a friend. She writes honestly and as a result, you feel like you know her and her characters. The importance placed on friendships vs relationships was my favorite part and easily the biggest reason I kept reading.
I definitely laughed a few times, especially while reading about her explorations with Tinder, but I'll admit that I struggled to finish. For some reason, I just couldn't attach to it.

As a long time Candace Bushnell fan, I was more than excited to read this upcoming book! A big thanks to NetGalley and Grove Atlantic for the ARC copy!

Is There Still Sex in the City? stays true to Bushnell's writing style. It describes what it is like for women in their 50s and up dealing with dating, love, friendships, relationships, bereavement, and just life in general, but in a humorous witty way. Bushnell tells us her own experiences and her girlfriends experiences with all these subjects and what it is truly like to be a women in your 50s in the 21st Century.

This was a totally different read than her past books, it was more a very honest and brutal telling of life your 50s and beyond and how things have drastically changed to the way things used to be back in the day. It's a series of commentaries and quite hilarious stories that Bushnell and her friends experience. So I liked that aspect of it. The similar sense of writing style was definitely there. That being said, I did have a hard time connecting with this book compared to her past ones, maybe because they were more stories about her circle of friends than a sharp and funny chick lit book. I found the book a bit heavier than her past books but that's not to say I did not enjoy it, it was just different. I wasn't as in love with it as I would have hoped to be, but I did like it.

This would be a fun book to read with your girlfriends, and definitely appeals to the older generation than your average 20s/30s. I liked that Bushnell did not hold back and straight up told it like it is. I will always read anything she puts out because I love her writing style.

Here is the link to my full review on my blog: https://www.chrissysbooks.com/post/is-there-still-sex-in-the-city-by-candace-bushnell

I'm a long time Candace Bushnell fan, thank you for the ARC, NetGalley and Grove Atlantic for the ARC copy!

Bushnell writes in her usual witty style and tells of her experience and others to date in your 50s in todays world. This was honest and the commentaries from her friends were interesting. This was enjoyable, but not nearly as much as her other books. I had a hard time connecting, feeling engaged overall, and wanting to stay with it, I almost quit a few times, but glad I made it through.

Reading Is There Still Sex in the City, by Candace Bushnell, is like running into an old friend. The feelings and thoughts she shared in this wonderful “coming of a certain age” memoir are the very feelings and thoughts that I am experiencing! I laughed, sighed and cried. I felt all the feels, all the joys and all the cringes. What a great reminder that we are not alone, the struggle is real and it has a name...MAM. I will be buying this in hard copy!

I'm a fan of Candace Bushnell's books and this one is no exception to the rule. I read the 2 first chapters and really enjoyed. I'll wait until the book is published to buy it since this ARC format isn't convenient for my e-reader.

A special thank you to NetGalley, Edelweiss, and Grove Atlantic/Grove Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Sex and the City was a cultural phenomenon—Carrie Bradshaw redefined the single girl. Fast forward twenty years and Candace Bushnell is back with a commentary on sex, dating, and friendship after the age of fifty.

In this book, Bushnell's topical chapters are a comment on trying to find love when you are middle aged, and how to navigate after divorce with the modern tools that are readily available to singles today. She also updates one of her more popular stories from Sex and the City, "The Bicycle Boys," about the dudes who are always trying to bring their bicycles up to a woman's apartment. There are other amusing anecdotes—getting Tindered, or the "Unintended Cub Situation" where a competent, put-together older woman temporarily loses all sensibility when she becomes the love interest of a much younger man.

Is There Still Sex in the City? is a satirical look at how middle-aged women are perceived, the unrealistic expectations put upon women by way of not aging and doing/having it all, as well as all the different stages and types of love—marriage, having children, not having children, divorce, and widowhood. This book is exactly what we need more of. What does it really mean to have it all? Who judges these things? Why are women constantly being compared to another woman's best instead of their own personal best? Some days it is a huge feat just to even get out of bed in the morning. The levels of expectations that women, both young and old, experience, and the pressures of society to be thin, beautiful, youthful, and successful are both crippling and unrealistic. These same pressures are not put on men, especially with appearance (see the section about the "Mona Lisa" treatment).

This book, which is and is not a sequel to Sex In the City, is a once over lightly very quick read (just a couple hours). It addresses the relationship issues of women in their fifties in New York. It covers topics such as divorce, dating, relationships, friendships and loneliness. Parts of it are very humerous and other parts are somewhat depressing.

Fans of the Sex In the City television series may find this book of interest. It will also work as a stand alone book as it is not based on any of the characters in the series.

I received a free Kindle copy courtesy of Net Galley  and Grove Atlantic, the publisher. It was with the understanding that I would post a review on Net Galley, Goodreads, Amazon and my fiction book review blog. I also posted it to my Facebook and Twitter pages

I thought, as a 30 year old, I would find this more relatable. I think this was aimed at an older generation and single women in their 50s will enjoy the stories & antics played out in this book.

I couldn't keep the main characters straight - there were so many of them and they seemed to all be the same. There were some laugh out loud moments and heartfelt moments. The characters and the stories were all typical and exactly what you'd expect. Overall, not a great book but also not the worst.

As a HUGE Sex in the City fan I was like yes I need to read this book! Now disclaimer bc I know I was a wee disappointed the girls are not in this book at all! I was waiting for them but they didn't show lol.
I liked how Candace follows the same essay style of writing in this book. I also like that it is centered around a middle aged woman finding herself single again. And hello I LOVE that NYC is still the other major character in this book.
I look forward to read more from Candace!

First, I must say that this is not a fiction novel and is definitely a retread of a previous smash work. Candace Bushnell was THE author to set a trend when she wrote Sex in the City. Sex was exciting and no longer a taboo to talk about it. It was cool and it was life. Her characters were thrilling and inviting and you wanted to hang out with them. However, this book left me a bit flat and disappointed. This time her book reads more like a research paper and if you’ve ever slogged through a few of those, you learn when to throw in the towel. Candace and her friends find or rather research if there is still Sex in the City after your glamorous youth. It's about women in their fifties and divorced and dating in the 21st century. Candace went on Tinder to find her answer to the “Is There Still Sex In The City” question. Except that the notion (which once was innovative and funny) seems dated now, and sad. And quite frankly superficial and a bit desperate. Bushnell writes as if the only thing that now matters is materialistic (her well to do life even after divorce, her dog, her friends, her needs for shoes or skins cream). Parts of the book read as if she had switched to trying to write bad soft core porn. For me, this book reads very one dimensional. The characters were bland and boring. I couldn’t find one that I related to or even liked. There's no excitement in the story. No revelations. I found this book, unlike her first, quite painful to read, and sadly, a disappointment. I shudder to think about her next book being about is there sex in your 80s in New York City. Yikes.

I gave this book 2 out of 5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley and Grove Press for this ARC in exchange for an honest review, and as always, all opinions are completely my own.

Is There Still Sex in the City is the story of one writer's midlife crisis .
Candace Bushnell finds herself in middle age, divorced and worried about money. Things truly come apart when her dog dies and she moves out to Village. Bushnell chronicles the experience of Tinder "dating", having younger boyfriends, and the suicide of one her close friends.
This is one of the saddest books I have read in a long time. Bushnell refuses to accept she is in a middle life life crisis and gives it a cute name and acronym. This is sad in and of itself. She refuses to truly accept her life.
It was hard to identify with her and her friends. Unlike her previous essays, there is no fantasy of being in the thrilling world of New York. I rolled my eyes when she complained living in the Upper East side (if you can't afford it don't live there. Damn.). I deposited her desperateness at thinking she would get something real from Tinder. And don't get me started on her "not mom but acting like mom" chapter.
Maybe this something people her ages (late fifties/early sixties) would enjoy. But i don't see many of normal people being able to empathize with a life that is still better than their because of economic status.
In her book, she mentioned she wrote several novels no one would publish. After reading this one, which they published, i would hate to read those.

I am not the demographic for this novel, but regardless of that fact, I truly loved this book! The candidness of a woman in her late 50's, freshly divorced and the trials and tribulations of simply living as well as dating was so completely engrossing to me. Sometimes I laughed, sometimes I was sad for Ms. Bushnell. If you don't know who she is, she is the creator of Sex and the City and it is truly interesting to hear how her real life is going rather than the fictional Carrie's life (although it does sound like she had a bit of that when she lived in NYC herself).

Overall, her dating experiences were interesting. As someone in her late 30's, again, I am not there yet, but her views on men at her age left my jaw dropping at times. That part alone was a must read for me. I read another similar book, Mad About the Boy, that really failed in describing middle aged women in my opinion. This though, I felt gave me a really good view into her life experiences. I felt like I learned so many new terms: MNB, MAM, and cubbing just to name a few.

A highly recommended novel for anyone who has navigated or is currently navigating the dating scene at any age!

Thank you to NetGalley/the publisher for my copy and honest review.

Candace Bushnell is THE author to set a trend when she wrote Sex in the City. Sex was exciting and no longer a taboo to talk about it. It was cool and it was life. However, this book is different. This is not exactly fiction. It reads more like a research paper in a form of a novel. Candace and her friends find or rather search if there was still Sex in the City. It's more like women in their fifties and divorce to go back to dating in the 21st century. Candace went on Tinder to find her answer. To be honest, this book reads very one dimensional. The characters were bland and boring. There's no excitement in the story.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Firstly, not fiction. Secondly, a retread. CB is renowned for snappy old Sex and the City, and rightly so, it was innovative and funny. But that was some decades ago now. Here, she is reprising the format - a quasi-study of the mating and dating habits of her contemporaries, with funny names and categorizations. Except that the notion seems dated now, and sad. And superficial, And a bit desperate. Everything isn’t material, but Bushnell writes as if it is - her life, her dog, her friends, her needs for shoes or skins cream. Enough already.