I really desperately wanted to enjoy this book. From the face of it, it seemed like it should be intriguing. Old-Hollywood glam, Bi-racial main character, LGBTQ+ rep, and a few women trying to climb their way in the world. But... as soon as I started reading I just found myself lacking interest. I kept reading because I knew so many others have liked this book. But gosh... it was a slug.

Considering the diversity of the characters and the writing being okay I'm going with a solid 3-star. But if I had to hear one more time about one of the main characters' coffee table/lack of table observations I would have lost it. There were a good amount of choices characters made that just didn't make sense to me. I hated how jarring the journalist's chapters were. They just broke the enjoyment of anything else that had come before. I also think that the more interesting themes or parts of the story weren't properly explored. Probably because Reid was trying to make several plot twists twist... which would have been fine... except that I was able to see them coming a mile away and so it just felt awkward.

I really did find the Hollywood glam/story of a life part of the book to be interesting and it would have just been fun to get more of that with fewer interruptions.