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Summary: I read this book in 3 days
Review: I loved this book. Olivia Goldsmith is great at creating characters that you love to hate. Once I started this book I could not put it down. The only drawback is that there is not a sequel.
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Summary: Best Sleazy Beach Book I've Ever Read!
Review: I read this book a couple of years ago on a Florida vacation, and I still remember the details (which is amazing,considering how many books I read). It has everything you could want in a beach book: sex, shopping, scandal & sleaze. I've been searching for a book this entertaining ever since I read it!
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Summary: This flavor tastes great!
Review: I really enjoyed this book! I loved hearing about each charactor and loved how they all intertwined!
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Summary: Best summer trash ever
Review: I was passed this book in a theatre group about five summers ago, and every woman in the company read it and agreed: excellent trash! The characters are so driven yet so pathetic at the same time that you cannot help devling deeper into the story. This is one of those books that ends up getting worn out before the week is over. It refuses to let you put it down and keeps you guessing up until the very end.
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Summary: I disliked the characters so much I quit reading it
Review: Not since Gone With The Wind have I so wanted to reach into the pages of a book and slap the whiny women in it. I had great hopes for a fun read with industry insider plot but was disappointed.
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Summary: the intellectual's jackie collins
Review: olivia goldsmith is a higher brow talent than jackie collins. so with this assault on the hollywood star making system, you may think of hollywood wives, but this is a more indepth look at the hollywood insider's system.
true the cliches are overripe: southerners, agents, and actresses do not get off easily, but it's easy to watch goldsmith ridcule them and you don't necessarily feel too badly about their troubles. the ending's way over the top also, but it kinda all feels like a good 80's primetime soap opera a la dynasty. a long but fun read like most of goldsmith's novels.
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Summary: Remember the cliche-'trees died to make this book'? Waste!
Review: Paper-thin characters, implausible plot, way too long. The writer includes a pet peeve of mine; she pretends to show outrage over violence against and physical exploitation of women while offering drooly examples of violence against and physical exploitation of women. Just an example of how carelessly this book is written; the book is set in the 1990's and one of the major characters, Lila, is around 18. However, Lila's mother was a star in 1948.
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Summary: Raw sex, powerful women, and frightfully real relationships!
Review: Rapture's Review: This was an outstanding book it follows three main characters and keeps you gasping in amazement. Jahne is the good girl who gets hurt in all of us. She goes on to get the best possible revenge on an ex-lover and fufill her dreams at the same time. She later realizes that the perfect breasts, firmest butt and all the other things women concern themselves with are nonessential. Towards the end of the book, is a great scene where she gets so fed up with being shoved into a one-size-fits-all mold for women and releases in such a powerful way that it would make anyone want to stop and take a deep breath before reading on and causing any permanent insanity in themselves. The secon Femme Fatal is Lyla Kyle 100% rich brat. She is what we all hate but all want at the same time. She's the little girl you want to take home, but the grown-woman you love to hate. Lyla has her own little secret that makes you say to your self "I guess pretty people have problems too" Sharleen represents so much that is wrong with America. She's good in her own, but others like to steal her beauty. She's naturally beautiful and naturally hated. Sharleen is constantly raped in every possible sense and when she finally does get her happy life, it turns on her and rapes her like all others.
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Summary: the best trash ever written!
Review: This book is an amazing, satisfying, addictive piece of trash--and I cherish my worn-down, flipped through copy of it! Nobody fashions the characters you love to hate like Olivia Goldsmith. I sometimes have gotten impatient with her heavyhandedness in other books (like Young Wives--hyperbolic in its vindictiveness), but over-the-top is what Hollywood is all about. I couldn't put the book down, reading it for eight hours at a time, hungry to know what happens next. I also found this book satisfying in its biting ridicule of "the beauty myth" in America."
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Summary: Too long
Review: This book needed to be edited. It is much too long. A lot of boring and unecessary details that could have easily been edited out and still have kept the book entertaining. I too did not like the southern cliche's. The simpleness of Charlene and her brother were a little more than I could stomache....these characters were downright stupid. But...it did have it's good parts...just too many boring ones. I enjoyed First Wives Club and The Bestseller much more than this one.
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