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Lädt ... The Actress: A Novel (2014)von Amy Sohn
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Wasn't great... didn't suck. Predictable archs ( ) What an utterly unnecessary novel. I read this because of the "inside baseball" look at Hollywood, and that was enough to keep me reading. But oh, this book is problematic. Maddy, as a character, is basically too stupid to function. Every character seems so concerned about whether Steven is secretly gay -- and it erases everything. Maddy seems to care about infidelity only because it might be with a man, as though if Steven were cheating with a woman she doesn't care. Everything is black and white, straight or gay, as though there is no middle option or room for complexity. It's grating. And the ending, ugh, so saccharine it's insulting. There's also an insultingly inaccurate pregnancy plotline with a magic "get pregnant from one single instance of unprotected sex" followed by a cringeworthy hyperemesis gravidarum plotline. I was insulted both as a woman with infertility and as a woman who had hyperemesis gravidarum. Either the author doesn't know anything about pregnancy or she wanted Maddy to be the special-est of special snowflakes, which I guess tracks with Maddy's characterization otherwise, but again, ugh. 1. The is-he-or-isn't he gay plot -- it seems a little too much, especially in this day and age. That seems to be what consumes Maddy most-- not the question of whether her husband may have cheated on her, but that he might have done it with a - gasp -- MAN? Aren't we beyond this in 2014? Isn't cheating cheating, and sex, sex? At least that's what we're conditioned to believe at this point. So to have the question be is he gay or not seems a bit retro. Infidelity is infidelity, so if what's bugging her is his sexuality, she comes off a little homophobic. 2. Maddy is completely unlikable as a character. She's naive, vain, clueless, and most of all annoying. As a perfect example of her unlikability, she calls an old flame to get together, needing a shoulder to cry on, and when they end up in bed together, then he asks her to invest in his next project, she accuses him of seducing her to get $. Really? How can the reader care about a person who isn't honest with, and barely seems to know, herself? I gave it two stars because of the intrigue of the behind-the-scenes Hollywood insights. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"When Hollywood heartthrob Steven Weller pulls Maddy Freed out of obscurity for a starring part in his newest, Oscar-worthy film, she feels her career roaring onto the express track. Steven's professional attention soon turns personal as they are thrown together amid Europe's Old World charm, and Maddy allows herself to tumble headlong into a fairytale romance with the world's most eligible bachelor. She knows there's no truth to the gay rumors that have followed him for years" --Dust jacket flap. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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