SPORTOCHICK’S MUSINGS: I loved the emotions this book brought out. I cried for pages and then smiled with tears in my eyes for a well ended storyline.

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The Girl Made of Stars
by K.E. Le Veque

Pub Date Jan 29 2025
Dragonblade Publishing

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Lola Grayson had it all.

In 1934, Lola was on top of the world. Dubbed “The Siren” by MGM, she was a protégé of Louis B. Mayer, the original talkie sex symbol before the rise of stars like Carole Lombard and Jean Harlow. But like Harlow, Lola Grayson had a dominant stage mother and bad health that struggled to meet the demand of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Exploited, pushed, primped, and promoted as MGM’s biggest star, Lola Grayson made one fatal mistake – falling in love with fellow MGM star Robert Taggart. Together, they were the golden couple that audiences demanded to see. But Lola wanted what every young woman at the time wanted – a husband and a family. For a major star, that was a death sentence.

Lola Grayson’s death rocked the world.

In the present day, Joey Cabot is a novelist with a struggling career. In a stroke of fate, she purchases Lola Grayson and Robert Taggart’s former home in Los Angeles. It was a secret love nest they kept hidden from the world, but what comes out of the old walls is a secret no one wanted to see the light of day. Something so explosive that it could lay Hollywood history wide-open. In discovering that secret, Joey sees the salvation of her career, but it soon becomes apparent that Joey isn’t working for her salvation, but for Lola’s.

Old Hollywood glamour and tragedy brings together two lost souls in this masterpiece fictional tale of one woman’s death… and one woman’s life.

REVIEW

Wow this book brought out all kinds of emotions. I cried for pages and then smiled with tears in my eyes for a well ended story. It was emotionally a well written book. I did struggle with connecting to the storyline for the first four chapters and then magic happened in chapter seven and I was hooked in the whole dramatic story of “The Siren”.

The reader will enjoy Joey and her stubbornness to solve the mystery of Lola’s life. I also feel that all her discoveries built up an anticipation in the reader much like a mystery book and it was exhilarating. Secondary characters lacked dimension but they fit perfectly in this story because they had very little to do with the major chain of events.

I loved the emotions this book brought out and I’d read it again.

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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