It's difficult to judge Debutante Divorcee without comparing it to its debut 'Bergdorf Blondes'. So here I will talk about BB first, and see how it is different from DD (gee, sounded like a bra size...).

As you can see, Victoria 'Plum' Sykes was (or still is, I don't know, I don't read the magazine) a contributing fashion writer of Vogue. Instead of bashing Anna Wintour like Lauren Weisberger did (though she denied it), Sykes actually are grateful to Wintour. As one of the IT girls and spent her time with socialites, she actually DO understand the going ons of the in-crowds or the heiresses of the Upper class New York.

In Bergdorf Blondes, Sykes introduced us to an unnamed character (occasionally calling herself 'moi') who became the storyteller of this story about her and her friendship with one Julie Bergdorf, the heiress of the Bergdorf Goodman store. This I-person in a way reflect Sykes; as the character is also a writer of some sort who loves fashion, men and being a drama queen (who in New York doesn't?). The character talks about the socialites life; their obsession with anything Zac Posen-Oscar De La Renta-Chanel-etc, their consistent desire to compete in having the latest in-thing and the grandest chic-est parties and the best fiance. In short, everything riffraffs like us think as stupid and membazir (but entertaining though, cuz we can see stupidity in lots of areas). The different thing between Sykes and other writers is that Sykes doesn't write a story. The storyline of moi and Charlie is actually just a backdrop (or a must-have because if there's no storyline, there would be no book, eh?) to an actually descriptive novel about the life of socialites. HOwever, it is entertaining because Sykes wrote it with such wit, she's able to make the character sound ditzy, blurred and dumb but at the same time oozes a sensual intelligence. Often the characters talk an unintelligent -but funny- philosophies like 'an engagement without a ring is like Elvis without a rhinestones, or a Bellini without the peach juice.' or my favourite "4. Common sense. I really am fluent in it. You've got to recognize it when a day is a total waste of make-up." 

What I loved about BB is the the slangs like 'it's beyond!' and 'total devas-ta-tion' and the acronyms introduced like 'ana' (for anorexic) and PJ (for Private Jets). And also because it's a hillarious read and you would not only enjoy the dialogues but also unnecessary description that became necessary to read because it's just fun.    

However in her second novel, Plum tries to put more emphasis on the storyline about Sylvie Mortimer whose husband had to leave her on their honeymoon due to a business call. Here she met Lauren Blount who coins the term 'Debutante Divorcee' which refers to her and her kind; divorced glamorous heiress/socialites that usually only marries to be divorced as if it's the in-thing, and they became friends (Lauren was there to celebrate her honeymoon-divorce). Through Lauren, she learnt more about the life of her friends and rival-friends and the notorious husband huntress (a term for girls who only interested in pursuing an affair with a married man) in the likes of Sophia D'Arlan who seems to has her eyes on Sylvie's man, Hunter. Convinced by a revelation by a newly-separated Marci that Sophia is having an affair with Hunter and several situation involving Hunter being in a place he shouldn't be, she went ballistic and leaves Hunter because 'it's better to be the leaver than the leavee'. Later she realized that the real deal was Sophia was actually trying to blind Marci from knowing that she actually went after BOTH Hunter and Marci's Christopher but got Christopher as Hunter is extremely loyal to his wife and knew Sophia for what she really is. And Lauren's quest to find the UnGoogle-able man ended with her marrying him (with the help of Hunter)although she decided never to marry again.

The thing is with DD, although it has more storyline than BB, it lacks the ridiculously funny wit BB has. At the same time, as we have already read BB, one can realize that DD tries to work the same touch but lacks the magic. At some point of reading, I skipped some paragraphs that describe about the event or a party although I enjoyed it in BB because it's like going through a different road with the same view. It tends to get boring at times and Sylvie wasn't as loveable as 'moi' (although I love Lauren more than Julie).

However there is one thing one can learn from this is that, Muslim socialites in America (or any billionaire Muslims that has linkage with America) are wasted. I mean, DD just wrote about Salome, but from lots of reading and watching the news, people like Salome - the Muslim heiress in USA/Europe/wherever there's booze do exist and there are lots of them.

So I would give 3.5 for BB and only 2.5 for DD. Devas-ta-tion!!!