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Don't Pass This Up!, May 26, 2002
This review is from: DreamCity (Paperback)
You will immediately identify with Ms. Nash's character; Adrianna. Who doesn't know how it feels to pursue a dream? Some days you get a hold of them and others you fall flat on your face. Ms. Nash takes us on a day to day journey into the world of a wannabee starlet. You'll be allowed to sit in on auditions, friendships, romances, heartache, heartbreak, and much needed soul searching.
Adrianna's writings touches the soul of every artist out there in pursuit of a dream.
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Will She Make It?, May 18, 2001
This review is from: DreamCity (Paperback)
Dream City by Sibylla Nash is a novel that truly identifies with its title. Adrianna Whittaker's story of trying to become an actress in Tinsel Town is told through her daily entries in her diary. Adrianna's diary becomes her venting, frustrations, disappointments, good news, and saddened voice of her trials and tribulations of struggling in the artistic world of acting. Her desire to become an actress is a dream that she is determined to accomplish. She reveals herself as being eager, determined, stubborn, and at times selfish.
Adrianna's daily entries include her ongoing love/hate relationship with her mother and her sister, Anita. It also includes various jobs she has to take in order to survive financially plus the times she has to break down and borrow money from her mother and friends. Her auditions, callbacks, and disappointments are the ongoing sagas of Adrianna's determination to reach her dream of being an actress.
Although her friends are very supportive of her, they have issues as she soon learns when one of them succumbs to drugs and dies. She comes close to a nervous breakdown when a family member, who is her number one supporter, is tragically killed. Adrianna's relationships are additional sagas in which she first believes that Collin, a grad student, is her long awaited soulmate.
Yet, the unthinkable happens and she's drawn toward Simon, an established member of Tinsel Town, who happens to be white. In spite of his color, he awakens feelings Adrianna never knew she had and she's faced making decisions that help her come to terms with her goals.
Adrianna's visit to her grandmother, Nana, becomes the highlight that helps her identify self and her dreams of becoming an actress.
The flow of the novel was good. It was very realistic and desriptive of the goings on of Hollywood and the world of wanna-be actors and actresses. Ms. Nash's Dream City is a nice revealing novel of one person's struggle to make it in Hollywood through the words of her diary. I encourage you to read the book to find out if she does.
Kalaani
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Great Debut!, February 8, 2001
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Ms. Nash has introduced the reader to the intimate life of Adrianna Whittaker, a struggling actress who faces issues that are painfully real. Among the issues that she faces are: how to stay afloat financially while following her dreams of becoming a star; how to maintain a stable relationship built on trust after one's heart has been betrayed; and how to face discrimination without becoming disenchanted or bitter? All of these issues are masterfully dealt with by this fresh[wo]man writer. I applaud Ms. Nash for her excellent work. I look forward to reading her sophomore publication.
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