I thought I would love this book, because it's written by two actual celebutantes. Amanda is a producer's daughter and Ruthanna is Dennis Hopper's daughter. But...no. I haven't seen such superficial characters ever since Plum Sykes' The Debutante Divorcee.
First of all, the main character is Lola Santisi, the daughter of a famous director who's actorholic, meaning she constantly falls in love with actors and they break her heart. The worst of all was SMITH (it's an acronym, they use them a lot, and we don't even know his real name). Lola also can't seem to decide what career would suit her. Her best friends are Kate, an young agent, and Cricket, an aspiring actress. Finally, Lola is asked by her friend Julian to help him break through the fashion world by convincing famous people to wear his clothes.
The Oscars are around the corner and Lola hasn't had any luck and her only somewhat firm client is Olivia Cutter, a self-centered maniac and Lola has to do everything she can to get her to wear a dress made by Julian. She's busy with that, but she does find the time to start something with hot new actor Jake Jones.
And that's basically the story, I don't want to spoil the ending. It's your usual chick-lit material but there were things that seemed to much of a stretch. The constant name dropping (JLo was there, Al Pacino said this, Spielberg did that) and the obsession with clothes were plain boring. There are many brands mentioned in the Gossip Girl books for example, but it didn't seem to me like anyone was about to have a heart atack over a dress.
So, for me the authors tried to hard to impress us, like they know so many people and they lived in Hollywood and bla,bla,bla, but everything just ended up boring. Lola Santisi seems to me just like a spoiled brat (with awful parents, I give her that) and she's attracted to all kinds of assholes. Does she need a psychologist for that? Apparently yes.Read it at your own risk.
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