Growing up in Pasadena means you’re close enough to be discovered. Hollywood. The glitz. The glamour. Margaret was fascinated by it all. She dreamed, of course, but it was just dreams… until it wasn’t. After being discovered at the soda shop, she had to choose between her family and being a star.
Thrown into Hollywood without a clue, Margaret becomes Margo and learns that everything is not how it seems. Those starlets are not actually all madly in love with the leading men they’re seen out and about with. People would do anything to get ahead including becoming all new people. Margaret must figure her way through the politics, the romances (real and set up), the friends (real and not — mostly not).
She’ll see and hear things she never saw or heard in Pasadena. But she’ll also realize that in Pasadena or Hollywood, everyone is mostly the same.
She’ll even meet her idol, just not under the circumstances she’d expected.
Starstruck is a fast fun romp through old Hollywood. The real stars take their places as bit background players. Margaret, Diana, Gabby, and Amanda are the stars here. If you like old movies, you’ll probably love some of the name dropping of real celebs mixed in with our girls (and guys but mostly girls).
If I have one complaint with this book it is that the two girls who seem like they are meant to be as important as Margaret don’t actually get to be developed as well as they could be. Still, I’ll gladly continue on with the series.
