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Title: Daytime Drama by Dave Benbow ISBN: 0-7582-0386-1 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Pleasant Diversion
Comment: This is a fun piece of fluff entertainment. The many obvious plot points are so secondary to the actual fun, that nothing is ruined. A world of pretty people, hot sex, hair products and easy-to-solve crimes = an entertaining couple of hundred pages. If that's what you're looking for, this will certainly fit the bill.
Rating: 3
Summary: AS THE WORLD SWIRLS AROUND THE PRODUCT PLACEMENT
Comment: Really, who can resist a sappy soap opera? Other than the classic primetime soapy series I never got caught up in television soaps. But I was weaned on my mother's daily dose of daytime drama on the radio - Ma Perkins, Our Gal Sunday and all the rest. So when DAYTIME DRAMA was published I knew it would end up on my reading list. I mean, who can resist a book that asks the question, "Can Clay Beasley, a young handsome struggling actor, fight his way through thousands of young handsome struggling actors to move on from playing Intern #2 to find love, wealth, happiness and stardom on Sunset Cove daytime TV's hottest drama?" Well you know he will, eventually, but not before the story is filled with enough murder, intrigue and skullduggery to keep you turning the pages at a brisk pace.
OK, so the characters seem a tad superficial. But their newly cropped hair artificially kissed by the sun always swishes around the most perfect faces modern surgery can produce as they apply Kiehl's Lip Balm #1 to their perfectly pouty lips under their straight Roman noses. And under their pristinely white Calvin Klein wife beaters and tight, weathered Polo Jeans you know you'll always find perfect Gold Gym sculpted abs. There are no pimples for the folks who people Daytime Drama. Mainly, because the pimple space is needed for all of the dropped brand names and (hopefully) product placements. (What an ingenious way to subsidize publishing costs by selling space in a book to have your product's name casually dropped into the plot. They do it all the time in the movies.)
The author, a former soap actor and retailing executive, probably knows what he's talking about, but I found the story is a bit predictable and I knew who the murderer is almost from the start, but that's what makes soaps so enjoyable isn't it?. You try to warn the romantic ingenues about what's going to happen to them, but they never listen to you. DAYTIME DRAMA is a fun read for a lazy afternoon when you can't watch your soaps.
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW! Great story, humor, sex...its all here!
Comment: I loved this book...what a fun and sexy way to get into the deep, dark world of Hollywood daytime TV. With its outstanding character development (I really felt I knew these people), and humorous, over-the-top supporting characters...plus the great soap-opera-esque story...I could not put this novel down. The added bonus of a murder mystery was even more than I expected. I am so excited to read more from this author. Thanks for such a fun read.
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Title: The Concrete Sky by Marshall Moore ISBN: 1560234369 Publisher: Harrington Park Pr Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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