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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780553290783
ISBN number: 0553290789
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 528
Printing Date: 1999-05
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: August 01, 1991
Sale Popularity Level: 24330
Studio: Bantam
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A book to die for...
Eve Benedict is the last of the movie goddesses, a smoky-voiced sex symbol with two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers to her name. There is no secret, no scandal she doesn't know. Now Eve has decided to write her memoirs--no holds barred. All Hollywood begs her not to. But Eve has her reasons....
Julia Summers is the biographer Eve has handpicked to tell her story. Transported from her quiet life in Connecticut to glitzy Beverly Hills, Julia hates the limelight but loves her work--and the home it built for the ten-year-old son she's raising alone. How can she refuse this chance of a lifetime?
But Eve's elegantly sexy stepson, Paul Winthrop, will challenge Eve's determination to tell her story--and Julia's resolve to guard her heart. And as Julia learns just how far Eve's enemies will go to keep her book from publication, she also discovers that Eve has one last, dark secret to share. It is one that will change Julia's life--and could cut it brutally short.
Amazon.com Review:
With her storytelling abilities in full force, Nora Roberts goes Hollywood in this contemporary romantic suspense. Ever since Julia Summers became a single mother at 18, she's focused all her energies on creating a secure home for her 10-year-old son, Brandon, and establishing herself as a sought-after biographer of Hollywood stars. Now quintessential movie goddess Eve Benedict, whose 50-year career has included two Oscars, four husbands, and scores of lovers, has particularly sought out Julia to write Eve's ultimate tell-all book. But as Eve reveals to Julia her many long-held secrets, Julia realizes there's a whole cast of characters with good reasons to keep Eve silent, including Eve's well-loved stepson, Paul Winthrop, a handsome novelist whose desire for Julia is beginning to penetrate her wary reserve. Eve, still glamorous, desirable, and reckless, thinks she's set the stage for events she can direct, but more and more, it's clear that someone dangerous is out of control. Fast paced, with a good balance between suspense and romance, and with more heart than many Hollywood-set novels. --Ellen Edwards
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I don't know why there are reviews saying that this book was a dud!!! Never a dull moment during this book, there are plans changing, rumors flying, glamour, glitz...read this book, and you won't be disappointed. the only disappointment was that the book ended, it always leaves us wanting more....Happy Reading!!
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I really like this book because it is set in hollywood. Nora Roberts is one of my favorite writers. I have already read most of her books. I used to like Danielle Steel, but Nora is my favorite now.
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This is so far one of the most boring Nora Roberts books, ever. It was OK but it seriously was a PUSH to get through it, and usually I simply just fly through her novels. The characters are very flat and uninvolved. I was able to guess whodunit way before the act was even done, as well as guess some of the plot twists. The book was fun for the trip to Hollywood-land but besides that it was a LONG book (528 pages) that really would have been better off slimmed down. Lots ado about nothing which leads to boring repeat events and pointless happenings that in the end you discover served no purpose at all to the story.
If you are a NR fan, you may like it but I suggest perhaps finding another novel to read very first and borrow this one from a friend.
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When a famous actress, Eve Benedict, is approaching her golden senior years and decides to write her memoirs, what could possibly go wrong? If Nora Roberts is the author, then the answer is always "PLENTY"! Eve hand picks a young female biographer to help write the book and unwittingly endangers all of the people involved.
GENUINE LIES touches on the Hollywood lifestyle, the glitzy lifestyle of Beverly Hills, what some people will do to keep secrets unknown, betrayal and of course romance.
This was one of the very first times Nora Roberts crossed the genre line from romance to mystery and does a very decent job of it. She excels in this quest in her later more recent books, but this one could be given a grade of B.
As with most of her novels, Roberts throws in the unexpected and leaves the readers wanting more when they've finished reading the last page of GENUINE LIES!
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Okay, I read this book over like ages ago then suddenly I thought of writing a review for it.
Julia Summers (I don't know what's with this name that authors like) is an author who was hired to write the biography of Eve. And Eve is a star who has a past to tell, secrets to exposs, and love tales to cherish. And through the story people began to plot against Eve and Julia's book. But that's not it, even with all these lies to tell, Eve has one last lie to tell that would change Julia's life forever.
Okay, the book was shallow. I'm telling you right now, characters are shallow in this book. If it wasn't for the last 200-150 pages I would of threw it away. And trust me the very first chapter was unbarable! I wanted to just skip it but when I did I was lost. And also...this book could have been SO much shorter, if it was it would have been sooo much more fun to read. This is what you call a good, 'sit-in-a-lounge-with-a-cup-of-wine' book. One that would just keep you busy.
Through the whole book, I didn't want to RP, I didn't get into ANY of the character. Julia's son was very important through the very first two chapters then he was suddenly forgetten as if he never existed!
So I give this a 3 star...perhaps 3 and 1/2 but it would not reach 4. How would you like to read a story filled with shallow and heartless characters?
This is a spoiler! The only part that was good is when Eve was killed and Julia and the hero was watching the video of her and the heritance...trust me that's the only good part. Nothing else is good. Nothing else is emotional. That's the only part out of a 500 some pages book that got me shedding tears. That's bad. Usually with a book that length I cry like a waterfall if it's good. >_>
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