Review: Superficial
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2012
This time around, Josie goes to the UK to take on a ghostwriting job. I bought this book because I wanted to see if it was better than the first and I thought the author did have talent. I couldn't get into this one though I hung on to the end to see if it improved.Unfortunately, although the premise could have been good and followed on from the first novel, Bridesmaid Lotto, there was nothing in it. Firstly, as the author would have known, three months is not enough to write and deliver an "autobiography" in good enough shape to send to a publisher and that part should have been believable. The heroine does very little writing - two weeks to the end of the contract and she has written all of five or ten pages. She doesn't actually sit down and interview her subject, they just canter around the nightclubs and indulge in terrifying sports, thereby making the tabloids happy. The boyfriend, Jake, from the first novel makes a few phone calls to her - not very convincing since he's supposed to be keen on her.The characters were very superficial, the status of the biography subject should have indicated bodyguards, but there were none - he seemed to roam around pretty much on his own - and the heroine was totally unqualified to ghostwrite a novel for anyone. These two factors alone should have been up to scratch.All in all, my hopes for a better novel were dashed.