Rating: Summary: Brewster Moore fell in love with Jahne after her surgery. Review: This book was lots of fun to read, but one of the things that Goldsmith apparently wanted to show was that beauty isn't as important as people think it is. But she has Brewster Moore, the plastic surgeon who transformed plain Mary Jane Moran into beautiful, thin Jahne Moore, start falling in love with Mary Jane/Jahne **after** her surgery, not before. When Dr. Moore is thinking about how he could fall in love with Jahne, one of the positives about her that he mentions is that she is beautiful. Does this mean that even Goldsmith can't conceive of any halfway desirable man falling for a physically unattractive woman like Mary Jane was before her surgery, even with her great personality, sense of humor and all her other positive traits??
Rating: Summary: Hot and Slick!!!!!!!! Review: This book was superb!!!!! Wonderful!!!! Sleazy,fast and HOT!!!!! Best reading for a sizzling day by the pool or the beach. Makes you want to jump into the book and be there!!!! This one has a lot of potential as far as I'm concerned!!!! If you like this one, try Pat Booth's Palm Beach and Sisters!!!!
Rating: Summary: Fat, Juicy Novel About Revenge Review: This is what I reach for when I want a fat, juicy novel about revenge and behind-the-scenes dirt in Hollywood. Totally trashy, but doesn't every woman wonder what it's like to be made beautiful and famous? It's perfect as light beach reading, but don't expect any major philosophical revelations. I particularly enjoyed the ugly-duckling-to-starlet-through-surgery plotline. This book is one I'll occasionally re-read when I want escapist fun.
Rating: Summary: This is the best book I have read ever!!! 10 stars Review: This was truly a wonderful book. I felt like I knew the characters and I had a very hard time putting it down. I felt like I was right there in every situation. This book showed me the lives of hollywood and what possibly happens in order to become famous and recognized. It showed the different struggles that women must go through in order to feel special and beautiful and it showed examples of relationships wheter it be with your lover or your mother. I absolutely love every single book of Olivia's. She is a very enterntaining author who makes you laugh, cry, angry and sad all at the same time. This book is wonderful and I will recommed it to everyone I know.
Rating: Summary: Good fun, but come on . . . Review: What I liked about this book is that it's every bit as dishy as Jackie Collins, but in a totally fictional way. Think about it. Jack and Jill and Compromise = Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, which makes Mary Jane = Kathy Bates, and Sam becomes a heterosexualized Terrence McNally, with Crystal Plenum as a dumbed-down Michelle Pfeiffer. I'm laughing hysterically just at that. What was even funnier was that Olivia didn't sue Carrie Fisher for lifting most of her salient plot points and cramming them into a very similarly themed teleplay, These Old Broads. On the whole a better read than the novel it was "spun off" from (you did catch Phoebe van Gelder and Brenda's brother in there, didn't you), The First Wives Club, as Goldsmith has developed a better ear for dialogue (or at least taken on a set of plots where stilted dialogue seems more in place).
Rating: Summary: Good fun, but come on . . . Review: What I liked about this book is that it's every bit as dishy as Jackie Collins, but in a totally fictional way. Think about it. Jack and Jill and Compromise = Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, which makes Mary Jane = Kathy Bates, and Sam becomes a heterosexualized Terrence McNally, with Crystal Plenum as a dumbed-down Michelle Pfeiffer. I'm laughing hysterically just at that. What was even funnier was that Olivia didn't sue Carrie Fisher for lifting most of her salient plot points and cramming them into a very similarly themed teleplay, These Old Broads. On the whole a better read than the novel it was "spun off" from (you did catch Phoebe van Gelder and Brenda's brother in there, didn't you), The First Wives Club, as Goldsmith has developed a better ear for dialogue (or at least taken on a set of plots where stilted dialogue seems more in place).
Rating: Summary: Unputdownable! An awsome page turner Review: When you begin reading this book make sure that you have nothing else that requires your attention. You'll have no time for anything else until you've read the word of this highly entertaining novel. Ms. Goldsmith really knows how to weave the perfect plot. The characters are so hollywood- real and the pace is so quick it leaves you panting with anticipation. The unexpected twist at the end of the book is so awsome you'd wonder how on earth the writer manages to come up with those out-of-this-world surprises. The perfect book for a summer day on the beach. Ms. Goldsmith, thank you for a great novel.
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