![]() Sure, at its core it’s about three girls trying to make it big, get their names in lights, and the plot when you think about it isn’t so much different than Lauren Conrad’s book of the same name (which I have read, don’t ask), but unlike every other book about girls, fame, and Hollywood, only this Starstruck gives the meaningful insight into a bygone era that qualifies as so much more. Names like Olivia de Havilland, Katherine Hepburn, and of course Clark Gable mean something to me, but even if theirs create the setting, Starstruck goes much deeper than just a few (famous) name drops. Ok, I have to confess, I’m kind of a film buff. My favorite historical fictions are those that feel like magic even though the plot of course calls for no real magic, simply because everything about the subject period, the mood, the atmosphere, the whole works, comes alive as the pages fly by, and Starstruck is definitely such a book. ![]() ![]() The glamour and magic of old Hollywood may be gone, but Rachel Shukert's captured the spirit of the era so perfectly, it's almost as if the Golden Age of film lives on in the pages of Starstruck. ![]() It was one of those nights in Hollywood, the kind that made gossip columnists and newspapermen and the announcers on newsreels say, "It was one of those nights in Hollywood." ![]()
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