Review: Great Book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2014
I'm not sure how much is accurate about the publishing world - but it sounds pretty accurate - from the little I know. I've been reviewing books for a long time and I've not only met and mingled and conversed with authors, but with publishers, and public relations people and the book is on the money with what I've learned. I still found it fascinating because the publishing world is just that - fascinating; the fast paced dog eat dog world - and will the book get published and will it be a success.There is also humor in the book. Laugh out loud humor. This is from a scene where Kate is talking an author from jumping off a roof."How does on decide what to wear to a suicide? Kate pondered. 'I'll never get past this - I'm ruined. Oprah cancelled on me! No one will ever speak to me again!' ...'You don't know my friends.'...'and the next I'm cast aside, discarded by some lowlife producer and replaced by some bleeding-heart novelist.' Kate rolled her eyes. Jesus, this girl. If she wasn't so close to the edge of the roof, Kate would rush over and give her a good wallop. Oprah was off the air, but her name still sounded like magic to many authors.""'But I bought Armani!' Kate was silent for a moment, a line of officers standing behind her. She wasn't sure what Haley was talking about. 'Haley,' she began, 'what do you mean?' 'I bought Armani for the show. An outfit, you know. Clothes?' Her sarcasm was dripping, and it was all Kate could do not to slip her foot in front of one of Haley's expensive shoes and topple her off the roof. Kate thought for a moment about leaving Haley on the ledge and walking ov er to the nearest bar to watch the rest on TV while she shipped a Cosmo. But she didn't. She stayed. She couldn't, after all, let Haley jump."Can you imagine being a publicist and having to deal with so much drama?Then, there's the love story. While Fifty Shades left little to the imagination, I enjoyed the way author Christina George did leave some to the imagination. It's always much more fun that way. I wouldn't want to give any spoilers away and I just hate regurgitating the book blurb, but I will tell you the books are enjoyable and you will love them. I'm giving The Publicist five stars.I received a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.