Book #58 of 2024: One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid This 2016 release was the last remaining Taylor Jenkins Reid novel that I had yet to read, as well as the last one the author wrote that’s more in the generic literary fiction tradition before finding her clear niche documenting fictional celebrities with The …
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Book #114 of 2023: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid I suppose it says something about the overall quality of author Taylor Jenkins Reid’s extended saga of fictional twentieth-century celebrities that this 2021 novel (the third of four so far, though they are so discrete that they can really be read in any order) is …
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Book #105 of 2023: Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid A feel-good comeback story from the master of other such recent historical fiction celebrity novels as Daisy Jones & The Six or The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (all of which apparently share a loose continuity). In this one, our heroine Carrie Soto …
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Book #10 of 2023: After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid One-and-a-half stars, begrudgingly rounded up for my enjoyment of the heroine’s extended family. I nearly quit this book several times, and it’s by far my least favorite of the five Taylor Jenkins Reid titles I’ve now read. The characters are decently fleshed-out, and the …
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Book #93 of 2022: Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid This 2013 debut is the fourth Taylor Jenkins Reid book that I’ve read, and the first one that hasn’t really wowed me. The premise is certainly designed to tug at heartstrings — a young woman is widowed not even two weeks into her marriage — …
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Book #131 of 2019: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid I adore the story of this aging Hollywood starlet presenting her memoirs, especially once it becomes clear that the true love of her life was not any of the men in the title, but rather a fellow actress — a relationship …
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Book #115 of 2019: Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid This novel delivers a somewhat standard Sliding Doors premise, following in alternating chapters as two parallel timelines diverge after the heroine makes a seemingly inconsequential decision near the start. Both versions of the ensuing narrative have fun romantic comedy elements, and author Taylor …
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Book #89 of 2019: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid I’ll admit I wasn’t immediately hooked by this oral history of a fictional 70s rock group, yet I found myself fairly riveted by the end. The ‘behind-the-music’ format is familiar for a documentary but pretty unusual for a novel, and author Taylor …
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