Oh! You pretty things

[a novel]

by

358 pages

English language

Published Nov. 2, 2015

ISBN:
978-0-525-95504-7
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OCLC Number:
888165220

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"Jess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood, but her star on the boulevard has yet to materialize. Sure, she's got a Santa Monica address and a working actress roommate, but with her nowhere barista job in a town that acknowledges zeroes only as a dress size, she's a dead girl walking. Enter Jess's mother--a failed actress who puts the strange in estrangement. She dives headlong into her daughter's downward spiral, forcing Jess to muster all her spite and self-preservation to snag a career upgrade: as a personal assistant for a famous (and secretly agoraphobic) film composer, Jesss workdays are now filled with shopping for luxury goods and cooking in his perfectly designed kitchen"--dust jacket.

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reviewed Oh! You pretty things by Shanna Mahin

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This was annoying because it was lacking a plot. The entire time I was reading, I kept waiting for the shoe to drop, the conflict to present itself. Well, I had to wait until 92% to get it, and it was dumb and contrived at that. I'm not sure how the author's editors let her get away with a book that waits to introduce and resolve the conflict in the last 8% of a book, but it makes the rest of the book a bit of a slog.

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Subjects

  • Administrative assistants
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Celebrities
  • Fame
  • Women cooks
  • Fiction

Places

  • Los Angeles (Calif.)
  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)