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writing is similar to Sidney Sheldon's, so I now truly understand why she was chosen to continue Sheldon's legacy, This novel, as "trashy" as it is, keeps up with the lively, fast paced storytelling, with a female protagonist that's very easy to root for,
If that's not peak Sidney Sheldon, I don't know what is,
Would recommend this book for women who live for the thrill, but in a more digestible, romance type format,/, good, would read again, but can be forgettable, This book was super trashy and slutty and it was a waste of my time, I got through the firstchapters and was over it, The storyline was quite predictable and reads more of a Danielle Steel / Jackie Collins book, That being said if you looking for a lazy not challenging read, then it might be the book for you, No conocía esta autora y sinceramente me ha gustado su forma de escribir es cierto queje parece un culebrón de Hollywood pero engancha ya que encuentran a una familia disfunciónql con unos personajes que hace todo y más por la fama, el dinero y el prestigio, olvidando los lazos familiares , los sentimientos y la humanidad.
El libro a pesar de tener muchos personajes principales, se centra en Sienna y vamos viendo su evolución desde niña a mujer , siempre rodeada de fama y siempre deseando amor de sus padres y seres queridos.
Lo único malo y por eso no le doy más puntuación es el final , demasiado brusco y repentino para ella después de lo que ha pasado, tal vez hubiera esperado un poco más sobre su relación con Max y no todo un cuento de hadas , aún así no es mal libro.
trashy trashy novel. needed a good editor. BUT SO MUCH FUN. this was a great, beachy, fast, naughty read,
and i liked that unlike so many other trashy novels, this one was a good length most of them are over before they get going, though with better editing, this one would have been aboutpages shorter, I wasn't expecting greatness, but from the little blurb in the beginning by the author, about how there isn't enough SUPER TRASH in chicklit right now, . . I was expecting some irony, some entertainment, some SOMETHING,
It was just bad, Badly written, badly imagined, bad, bad, bad, “Adored” a Sydney Sheldon book by Tilly Bagshawe takes us deep into the Hollywood business and lifestyle,
The story is about Siena McMahon a girl born amid hollywood scandal and opulence, She adored her grandfather Duke a Hollywood legend as a young girl, for his fame and success, It lured her towards Hollywood as a supermodel,
The rejection from her parents and the betrayal from one true love, pushed her into the hands of the most malicious rich man Randall Stein,
Adored is all
about the ups and downs in Hollywood, the isolation, struggle, heartbreaks, above all the nonstop fuss from paparazzies,
This book was interesting in its own odd fashion, takes us into its own abominable Hollywood lifestyle, Tilly Bagshawe has done a wonderful job in the usage of characters, She concluded the chase for fame, by the final realisation of the true meaning of life,
Life of Siena McMahon was not so adorable,
TillyBagshawe Adored SydneySheldon would have been better if it would not make the main characters go through every possible awful event then get together at the very end of the book with little explanation of what changed their mind about being together An amazing book.
Lots of drama, lots of heart ache, All that glitters is not gold is pretty much what sums up this book, It's an excellent read. I read for three nights straight until I finished so I recommend this to anyone who loves a bit of drama, a bit of romance and a bit entertainment.
It was my cheesy, I'm on vacation book and definitely served it's purpose, Ненужно дълга и разтегната с холивудския щастлив край. Нямаше нищо уникално в сюжета, но аз не обичам да оставям четиво, така че си прочетох всичко и като цяло мисля, че не съм особено голям фен на Тили Багшоу. Може би ако не пише за Холивуд ще е по добре I loved this book.
The characters were troubled individuals with so much real life in bedded in them, The ups and downs of a dysfunctional family that everyone at some point has to face, Dirty secretes, the misconception of children,
Innocent minds playing with the idea of right and wrong,
I found sienna's rise and downfall intriguing, I loved reading her journey through which she found herself, and threw away the person she thought she ought to be, Let's see if you are beautiful and wealthy and have a great Hollywood name, you can pretty much berate and belittle everyone around you and they'll still come running back to you.
Now, let's add a little humility here when that beautiful face is totally ruined by a madman that you knowingly hooked up with, and who has also ruined you financially, and VOILA! You are instantly a far better person.
To top it all off, we add a gorgeous uncle who is a TV star and who is the equivalent of a saint, and his best friend who is also gorgeous and races between being a stupid saint for loving our abusive heroine and a juvenile jerk who throws temper tantrums i.
e. , lies to and sleeps with a budding Hollywood waitress/actress,
On the other hand, there were times when listening to this story waswell, fun, Some of Bagshawe's ideas were great the young actress so confused by an erratic upbringing that her own personality is warped the glamour, glitz and brutality of Hollywood the family in England trying desperately to hold on to the family estate.
But then she ruins it with foulmouthed expletives that are doubly shocking when heard in rapid succession on an audio CD, and with story lines that are poorly and hastily resolved.
If that weren't bad enough, the audio CD is read by a young English woman who has clearly done some work on accents, as she has a passable American accent throughout with the exception of the way she pronounces our heroine's surname when she is being "American".
I'm sorry ma'am, but if you want to have an American accent, please acquaint yourself with our nasty "a" sound in the name McMahon, No matter how you slice it, and no matter what part of our country you are from, it is NOT pronounced "McMonn", The fact that the name is repeatedly used throughout the narrative makes it even more grating,
All in all, this is one to skip, Save your eyes and/or your ears for better material, "Adored" is a dreadful book, Bagshawe is an unimaginative, creativitychallenged author who can barely assemble a readable sentence, I could stop there, but where's the fun in that
First of all, I fully realize that "Adored" is a socalled "trashy novel", I didn't expect great literature or a lifechanging experience when I picked it up, It was compared to "Scruples", a book I really likedyears ago, so I thought I'd give it a shot, Please, shoot me. While I didn't expect great literature, I did expect to be entertained by a competent writer, That was my first mistake, My second was continuing to read even though I knew what a dog I had on my hands, It was so bad that I had to finish it just to make sure it was SO bad, Mission accomplished.
The story was unbelievable, the characters unlikable, and the writing undecipherable at times, In thes a legendary movie star Duke!! moves his mistress into the home he shares with his "longsuffering" wife Minnie, and adult son and daughter Pete and Laurie, and also Pete's wife, Claire.
Yeah, sure. The mistress soon has a son Hunter who is ignored by his own parents and despised by everybody else in the house, until Pete amp Claire's daughter Sienna is bornyears later.
Hunter and Siena become close friends, Pete hates his father, Duke, So why does he keep living under Duke's roof Why put up with the torment of it all Pete hates that Siena and Hunter are close, and that Duke and Siena are close.
So why continue to live in the same house Why Duke dies when Siena is, so Pete finally has a chance to have some influence on his own daughter.
Hunter and his mother are kicked out of the house, and Duke is dead, remember What is Pete's response Send Siena to boarding school in England, WTF Claire, meanwhile, stands by and lets Pete do whatever he wants regarding Siena, Sends her to boarding school, Cuts her out of their lives completely when, at, Siena decided to pursue a career in modeling and acting instead of going to medical school, Claire doesn't like it, but she loves Pete so very much that she goes along with it, Why Claire loves Pete is a mystery, He's just as big a prick as his father, but in different ways, The story goes on, blah blah blah, Whatever. It is just so flawed, from beginning to end, There wasn't a single character I liked enough to even care how they turned out, Most of the men were jerks most of the women were weak, Most of the time I was annoyed,
Did I mention that Tilly Bagshawe is a horrible writer Honestly, I do not understand why this book was published, It seems like there was no editing done at all, I know that can't be true, so I shudder to think what the first drafts were like, Here is an example of some of the stuff that DID make it into the book:
"As long as you kept your head down and worked hard, he had always found him to be a fair and reasonable boss.
" Huh Too much 'you' and 'your' not enough 'he' and 'his',
" and the taxi drivers came in from Queens every morning with six inches of pure white icing on top of their marzipanyellow cabs, " Is that so Sorry, but marzipan is not, by definition, or association, yellow, Like say, a taxicab might be considered, Something can be described as taxicab yellow, but not marzipanyellow,
"The blazing afternoon sunshine poured down its lifegiving energy on the orange and lemon trees that grew in every garden, overflowing with abundance and color, fruitfulness and life.
" Oh my god. Please, make it stop.
" . stood like gleaming sentinels at the foot of the biggest, most melodramatic staircase Siena had ever seen, " Melodramatic staircase Seriously, Tilly are you trying to give me an aneurysm
Page: "The school year had ended the week before and months of glorious freedom stretched ahead of both her Siena and Hunter".
Siena then finds Duke dead in the kitchen, Page: "The first few weeks after Duke's death were a miserable blur to Siena", . . , "She became almost indifferent to the paparazzi, . . as she got off the school bus each day, . . " Why is Siena on a school bus if there is no school Plus, way back on pageit was established that Siena was taken to and picked up from school by either the nanny or her mother!! If I, a disinterested, casual reader am able to catch these mistakes in one reading, why can't the person who wrote it do so Or perhaps the person who is paid to edit Why does it fall on my shoulders to do this important work Wait, it IS important that I work late into the night to trash thisyear old book that nobody cares about, right
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Reading along about Siena this, Siena that, She she she. But in the middle of it, without quotation marks, or any kind of break, is "I mean, what did he have to do today that was so earthshatteringly important that he couldn't spend five minutes talking to that stupid whale of a woman about how happy he was to be with her" Me again.
You see, I put quotes in because I'm quoting the book, Tilly, though, just decided she'd slip into thest person for one sentence, One portion of a sentence, actually, because by the end she had moved from "I" back to "her" meaning Siena, not the 'whale of a woman', It wasn't Siena 'thinking' a quote, Just "I" out of nowhere, Out of place. Bad, bad, bad.
Finally. Speaking of the 'whale of a woman', In Tillyland all you need to know about a person to hate them sufficiently is that they're fat, Duke and Minnie's daughter Laurie is "fat, useless", Well, Tilly, she's only useless because you don't have the imagination to make her anything else, The 'whale of a woman' is a journalist, Page". . fat, garrulous middleaged woman "". . her blubbery jowls shaking. " ". . her fat wet lips. . ". Page: "He hated journalists, especially fat women journalists, " Page" the fat journalist". Thirteen!! lines later, she's still "The fat journalist, . . " Are you kidding me, Til Is that the best you can do Really, we get it Fatbad, Unfortunately for you, Tillybad writer,
Could I go on about why this book sucked Sure, But I won't. I've barely touched on the plot, The glaring errors of the presentation jump out at me so much that I tend to focus on them instead of the overall badness of the story, though.
I wonder what book didn't get published so that this one could be published, I wonder why somebody wanted to possibly stake their reputation in pushing this one through when it was so flawed, I wonder who encouraged the author to keep plugging away at it, I notice that her sister Louise Bagshawe is the author of several books perhaps that has a lot to do with this one being published, Perhaps not. I wonder why I've spent so much time going on and on about it, I see that Tilly has written two other books which I have no interest in reading, I've suffered enough.
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