This book might as well have been written for me. I don’t care that critics hate it, this is exactly the kind of melodrama I signed up for. An intimate look into stardom and the life of celebrities of the golden age of Hollywood, through the eyes of what feels like an insider. I was absolutely hooked through the rise and fall, all the characters representing such different and interesting takes at fame and the destruction that comes with it. I know this has been called exploitative, but now that we are several decades removed and no longer recognise the real people behind the characters at first glance, we have to recognise how progressive it is to depict the very real abuse that women in showbiz suffer. But beside any righteous reflection that may come of it, this novel reads like gossip, these women are the perfect unhinged heroines and you just love to see it.