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A review by emjay2021
Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper by Hilary Liftin
4.0
3.5 rounded up. Sometimes you just need an entertaining book you can read while your brain takes a much needed vacation. This was that book for me this past week.
Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper is a fictional first-person narrative of how a 24 year old actress (Lizzie Pepper), best known for her role in a long running TV show, is swept off her feet by a much older, handsome, famous megawatt movie star (Rob Mars). It chronicles their whirlwind romance, quick engagement, surprise pregnancy, birth of their children, and wedding. It also goes into Rob’s involvement with a cult (One Cell) that has tentacles all over Hollywood, and Lizzie’s slow realization that she is under complete surveillance by the cult, her every move observed, every email and text read, every phone call listened to. The novel ends with Lizzie’s James Bond-like perfectly orchestrated escape and divorce from Rob and extrication from the cult.
There is absolutely no way this book isn’t based on the real life relationship of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise. The details are far too similar, though the author has changed a few things—for example, Lizzie and Rob have twin sons, instead of a single daughter. But in all other ways it is pretty darn close. Which of course makes the reader wonder: how much of this is the way things happened for Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise?
For their sake, I really hope it is not that accurate. But something tells me even if the author was just guessing at the bits that no one could really know, the private things that happen between a husband and a wife, it probably hits closer to home than one would think possible.
Anyway, if you ever wonder about the lives of famous people and their relationships, if you ever read celebrity gossip, you’ll probably enjoy this. It’s not going to win the Booker, but the writing is decent and the plot keeps you turning the pages. It was perfect for my purposes this weekend and I found it a satisfying read.
Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper is a fictional first-person narrative of how a 24 year old actress (Lizzie Pepper), best known for her role in a long running TV show, is swept off her feet by a much older, handsome, famous megawatt movie star (Rob Mars). It chronicles their whirlwind romance, quick engagement, surprise pregnancy, birth of their children, and wedding. It also goes into Rob’s involvement with a cult (One Cell) that has tentacles all over Hollywood, and Lizzie’s slow realization that she is under complete surveillance by the cult, her every move observed, every email and text read, every phone call listened to. The novel ends with Lizzie’s James Bond-like perfectly orchestrated escape and divorce from Rob and extrication from the cult.
There is absolutely no way this book isn’t based on the real life relationship of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise. The details are far too similar, though the author has changed a few things—for example, Lizzie and Rob have twin sons, instead of a single daughter. But in all other ways it is pretty darn close. Which of course makes the reader wonder: how much of this is the way things happened for Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise?
For their sake, I really hope it is not that accurate. But something tells me even if the author was just guessing at the bits that no one could really know, the private things that happen between a husband and a wife, it probably hits closer to home than one would think possible.
Anyway, if you ever wonder about the lives of famous people and their relationships, if you ever read celebrity gossip, you’ll probably enjoy this. It’s not going to win the Booker, but the writing is decent and the plot keeps you turning the pages. It was perfect for my purposes this weekend and I found it a satisfying read.