Cover Girl Confidential

by Beverly Bartlett and TurtleMe

She's the host of a wildly popular, top-rated morning show. Bride of a high-society golden boy. A veritable household name. An immigrant rags-to-riches story that's the American dream personified-and so perfect for Hollywood. Men want her. Women wish they could be her. But now Addison is in jail awaiting deportation and her celebrity rating is falling faster than a discount boob job. Maybe the First Lady's personal vendetta is to blame. (Addison insists that the president was pulling her onto his lap when that photo was taken.) Or perhaps everything started to go downhill when she threw exercise equipment at her husband on live TV. (Addison says the jerk had it coming.)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446695580
• ISBN13: 9780446695589
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: 5 Spot
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Fun and fast

This is a fun book, and can be read fast. I happened to have two free days, and the book helped fill the time. The character of Addison is very likeable, if a bit naive, considering the people she has worked with, but that adds to her charm. Parts of it are funny, some parts you have to suspend reality-- being fired in the middle of your own TV show when you are the hottest thing going is not going to happen. Also, the author made mention that the Kentucky Derby only draws stars from below the A-list. This was a surprise, since the Barnstable-Brown party always gets the good ones, all A-listers. The author is from my hometown, Louisville, so apparently, this was said tongue-in-cheek and she knew better. But that's OK. It's still a good read.

A stylish and witty book

I really liked this author's first book, but this one is even better. It's fast, it's funny, it's clever, and it has a twist at the end that I absolutely did not see coming. There's not an author out there who does a better job than Bartlett of using elements of the real world to make her fictional world seem both more true-to-life and more outrageous. She has a wonderful sense of satire and a unique way of affectionately tweaking America's obsession with pop culture. In this book, she's found the perfect way to balance celebrity fun/fluff with other aspects of 21st-century America, namely immigration issues, [...] marriage, and a few others besides. And yet she does it with an incredibly light touch. It's a real treat to read a book so funny and entertaining, and yet written with such brains and heart.

Entertaining!

I enjoyed this book quite a bit. I laughed out loud in places and liked the way the author mixed real celebrities into the plot. (Hey, any book that starts with someone kissing George Clooney has to be good!) But I also liked that the book touches on real social issues, immigration, gay marriage, celebrity watching. (All the important stuff.)