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January 30, 2009 6:48 PM
BOOK REVIEW: Beautiful People by Wendy Holden
Trust me to make the first review after having my baby a book of nearly seven hundred pages long. It has taken me ages to read. I love a good, chunky novel, as long as the words, sentences and chapters are all gripping and don't have me skipping bits because I just want to get to the end. Which, by the way, is what I found with Filthy Rich, Wendy's last book. As Beautiful People was about 100 pages longer than Filthy Rich I didn't hold much hope.
However.
Beautiful People has a great bunch of characters. Some nice and a little naive like Darcy and Emma. Some not so nice, like Sam and some absolutely ghastly, like Belle.
Darcy is a Shakespearean actress, working for peanuts in London theatres. She is spotted by a Hollywood producer and her presence is demanded in LA for an audition. Belle is already a Hollywood actress, but one with a star that is starting to wane. To regain some good publicity she adopts an orphan, but alas, is not a natural mother. Cue Emma, the nanny. Their lives all come crashing together.
This was a great story. As I was supposed to, I disliked Belle, rooted for Darcy and Emma and couldn't care less about a few others. You know where the story is going to end up but how they bumble along getting there and interacting with each other was the fun of it all.
My only criticism I suppose would be the length. I got to the point where I didn't want to read the lovely descriptions of the Italian food, I just wanted to know what happens with Darcy and the rest of the plots. But if you like your stories about Hollywood divas, celebrities and some normal people thrown in, you'll love Beautiful People.
Rating: 4/5
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Posted by Helen Redfern on January 30, 2009 in New Releases, Rating: 4/5 | Permalink
Comments
My copy has just arrived at the library today, so I'm looking forward to getting stuck into it! It is a whopper though :o)
Posted by: Karen | January 31, 2009 8:34 AM
I have just finished reading Beautiful People, I have to say, the ending is a bit of a let down for me. It was all kind of predictable what was going to happen with the story and I found all my guesses were correct, such as Emma and Ornaldo managing to find eachother yet again for the third time, Dary and Marco falling in love, etc.. and for that reason I was hoping that the ending would be something a lot stronger than that and not so easy to guess.
Overall, good book, worth reading but I don't think I will be reading it again.
Next on my list is Fame Fatale...
Posted by: Sophia | September 4, 2009 1:48 PM
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