A review by carlaserrano
Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper by Hilary Liftin

emotional lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes

4.5

i’m so pleasantly surprised with this book. i picked it up from a second hand store and i wasn’t expecting much from it. well, it turns out i really really liked it. it kind of gives me the seven husband of evelyn hugo vibes. 
i really liked the main character. and more importantly i really liked how i was always in tune with her and her feelings. so i felt the happiness, giddiness, let down, disappointment, hope, confusion, and every other emotion possible. 
i was impossibly intrigued by one cell and up to a certain point i believed their ways. however there was always that didn’t felt right. 
i am honesty astonished by how much i liked it. it just gave me a pov about starts that i don’t really consider or take into account and it is refreshing to have a reminder that money and fame does not equal power and happiness by any means. it reassured my idea that i would never be able to handle that type of life as well. 
this genre of books is so cool to me. 
i’m so happy with this book really. 
and i’ve just discovered that it is loosely based on tom cruise and katie holmes. that news are incredible to me i’m such a gossip. i don’t think i will be able to see tom cruise in the same way though. 
wow. lizzie’s journey was so interesting. i was not once bored or felt the book was too long. it kept me turning page after page. 
lizzie is incredible i love her as a mc. i was really so coordinated with every single one of her feelings and that is so great. and rob. well. he is someone i cannot bring myself to love or hate. he just doesn’t have enough personality traits for that. he is an actor. and thats it, he is not a person. 
so surprised. i loved it. enjoyed every second. so good