Review: Shallow person; is she punished or rewarded?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2014
(Potential spoiler)Has any reader been surprised by the ending?This thoroughly entertaining and fun, if unlikely, story, tells of Samantha Jane's escape from stalking paparazzi and the changes that escape has on her life.  Sam and her friends Mandy and Lizzie are fun loving single women with expensive tastes and lifestyles, though I finished the book without really being able to tell Mandy and Lizzie apart.  An encounter with a soccer (football) player of some fame, though not occurring until a third or more through the story, sets up over six weeks of intense paparazzi coverage, and that's where I started to lose it.  The accounts of the coverage seem to me way overblown for what is obviously (after all, they're following her) a one-night stand.  The idea of escaping to a small town, just a few hours away, and expecting anonymity after national news coverage is similarly naive, and the characterization of the small-town folk is stereotypical.So, while the premise is somewhat less than credible, and the main characters somewhat shallow, the story is an enjoyable way to  spend a few hours in reading