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A review by blevins
Nothing but a Smile by Steve Amick
2.0
This book should have been so much better! Based on the setting and subject I thought I'd really love it--I didn't. Nearly a one star for me which is a rare thing on here as I usually stop reading books I don't like after about 50-75 pages because there are so many books to get to that I would like more.
Anyway, this is set at the tail end of WW2 and involves a group of people getting drawn into the world of pin-up photography. I love those classic pin-ups so thought that subject combined with all the photography talk and WW2 elements would be a great book--so disappointed. The book is way too predictable, the writing is not the greatest and it is too chaste. I expected it to be a little more raunchy but Amick takes every bit of sex appeal and naughtiness out of the pin-up angle which was a terrible mistake. The book should have had some amount of luridness to it but it has very little or none at all as it is completely sexless.
Anyway, this is set at the tail end of WW2 and involves a group of people getting drawn into the world of pin-up photography. I love those classic pin-ups so thought that subject combined with all the photography talk and WW2 elements would be a great book--so disappointed. The book is way too predictable, the writing is not the greatest and it is too chaste. I expected it to be a little more raunchy but Amick takes every bit of sex appeal and naughtiness out of the pin-up angle which was a terrible mistake. The book should have had some amount of luridness to it but it has very little or none at all as it is completely sexless.