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verityw 's review for:
Stars Over Sunset Boulevard
by Susan Meissner
***Copy from NetGalley in return for an honest review****
So. I'm a bit conflicted about this. I quite enjoyed reading this - I liked the sections dealing with Hollywood in the late thirties and behind the scenes of Gone with the Wind, but I wasn't as connected with the characters away from that. I though Violet was naive and irritating in some of her decisions, I never really felt like I got inside Audrey's head and Bert just felt a bit two-dimensional and wet. I found the flash-forwards a little irritating, although I put up with them because I thought they were necessary to enable to enable the end of the story to be told - but then the final one didn't really feel like it answered enough questions/tied up enough lose ends either. So the Hollywood behind the scenes sections on their own would have got a higher rating, but the tangled interpersonal relationships didn't work for me.
So. I'm a bit conflicted about this. I quite enjoyed reading this - I liked the sections dealing with Hollywood in the late thirties and behind the scenes of Gone with the Wind, but I wasn't as connected with the characters away from that. I though Violet was naive and irritating in some of her decisions, I never really felt like I got inside Audrey's head and Bert just felt a bit two-dimensional and wet. I found the flash-forwards a little irritating, although I put up with them because I thought they were necessary to enable to enable the end of the story to be told - but then the final one didn't really feel like it answered enough questions/tied up enough lose ends either. So the Hollywood behind the scenes sections on their own would have got a higher rating, but the tangled interpersonal relationships didn't work for me.