Review: Definitely a guilty pleasure read!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2013
The best way to describe Selling Scarlett is to say that it is like a Jackie Collins novel meets Fifty Shades of Grey.  For those familiar with Jackie Collins, she likes to write sex-filled action/mysteries that have a soap opera-ish feel to them about rich and glamorous characters, That is exactly what you get with Selling Scarlett.And the two main characters in Selling Scarlett, Hunter and Elizabeth are clearly re-spun versions of Christian and Anastasia from Fifty Shades of Grey, right down to Hunter's hidden, abusive past and the fact that he is a submissive for a woman who is into S&M.; Elizabeth's "Plain Jane" looks and awkward and gawky personality mirror Anastasia's to a "T". Her overuse of terms like "belly bats" and "holy crapcakes" comes very close to Anastasia's overuse of "inner goddess" and "holy crap". The author even goes to great lengths to repeatedly mention Elizabeth's old run down car, just like Anastasia's was repeatedly described in Fifty. I personally was not a fan of FSOG at all and I don't like seeing fan-fiction versions of it in other books I read. It's over, done, and been there....a truly good author should be capable of coming up with their own story, not retelling someone else's.With that said, this was a fun read with a little bit of everything.  There was murder, suspense and romance. The writing was decent, however I was often confused about who was speaking and had to re-read paragraphs to make sense of what they were talking about. There were also way too many characters and the mystery aspect of the plot was too complicated.  Overall though, it was an entertaining book and I enjoyed it.  3.5 stars.