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Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club [Hardcover]

Maggie Marr (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)


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April 15, 2008
Life at the top of the A-list is fabulous, but it’s a long way to the ground if you fall—and the cameras are always waiting to publicly humiliate you if you do. Jessica, Mary Anne, Lydia, and Celeste have stayed at the top by sticking together. The last time they collaborated on a project, the film was a huge success, launching über-agent Jessica’s boutique management company, making Mary Anne the hottest new screenwriter in Hollywood, landing Lydia the top spot at Worldwide Pictures, and solidifying Celeste’s position as the queen of Tinseltown. But this time, as these powerful movie mavens are called to the set, each of them has a lot more to lose.

At thirty (ahem . . . thirty-six), actress Celeste Solange is starting to feel her age. Tiny lines are beginning to appear near her eyes, and she’s wondering how long she can hold on to her A-list status. But that’s not her biggest problem—not by a long shot. A compromising DVD she made with her husband during the wild early days of their marriage is making the rounds, threatening to break out onto the Internet and ruin her image and her career. So Celeste turns to her girlfriends for help—good thing they’re some of the most powerful players in town.

Mary Anne, Lydia, and Jessica have troubles of their own. Mary Anne has started seeing Holden Humphrey, the hottest leading man in Hollywood, and everyone in America is watching—including his crazy young stalker, who wants Mary Anne out of the picture. Lydia is busy running a studio, putting out fires, and playing politics with the big mouths and big egos of the entertainment elite, and now someone is trying to blackmail her. Jessica is juggling a family, a demanding career, and an even more demanding list of clients. And meanwhile, publicist Kiki Dee seems to have a hand in all the secrets . . . and she’s willing to do anything to keep her spot at the top of the Hollywood PR machine. Can the Hollywood Girls Club hold their lives together and get a film made amid all the craziness?

That’s life in Hollywood—where the right friends, and the secrets they know, can make or break a career.

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From Publishers Weekly

The ripsnorter sequel to Hollywood Girls Club revolves around sex and plastic surgery secrets that, if revealed, would destroy movie queen Celeste Cici Solange and likely sink movie studios and destroy high-power industry marriages. If that sounds like fun, it is. Our world, our business, has nothing to do with substance or reality, lectures Kiki Dee, the bad-ass publicist who collects stars' secrets like Donald Trump amasses real estate. But superficial doesn't come cheap in Hollywood, where A-lister Cici covertly goes under the knife knowing her public expected her to personify youth and to age gracefully and that aging gracefully meant aging very little at all. The surfacing of Cici's other secret—a sex tape made by her ex—sets off a madcap plan to get it back before it hits big on the internet or her husband (and Worldwide Pictures honcho) Ted Robinoff finds out that it exists. Along the way, screenwriter Mary Anne Meyers rises to celebrity on the arm of screen idol Holden Humphrey; Jessica Caufield transitions from agent to big-time manager-producer-wife-and-mom; and production chief Lydia Albright's uncertain about her future. Marr's prose is fast and sharp, and she keeps the plots flying. (Apr.)
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From Booklist

In this lively sequel, Marr revisits the female power players from The Hollywood Girls Club (2007). Actress Celeste Solange is desperately trying to keep a lid on a sex tape made during her first marriage, to a kinky producer. Screenwriter Mary Anne Meyers is in the throes of a passionate new relationship with handsome movie star Holden Humphrey, but his ex-girlfriend, the mentally unstable starlet Vieve Dyson, will do anything to get him back. Producer Lydia Albright, the new president of Worldwide Pictures, knows keeping Celeste’s sex tape under wraps is the best way to ensure that Worldwide’s multimillion dollar deal with Celeste doesn’t go down the drain, so with the help of agent Jessica Caulfield-Fox, she tries to purchase the video and find out who’s been sending her taunting letters. While the women rally to keep one scandal under wraps, publicist Kiki Dee may have found another that trumps even a scandalous sex tape. Marr’s second novel is frothy, gossipy fun for US and People magazine addicts. --Kristine Huntley

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Crown (April 15, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307346315
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307346315
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1 x 9.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,669,542 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Maggie Marr is an attorney and former motion picture literary agent. She is the author of Hollywood Girls Club and Secrets of The Hollywood Girls Club. Can't Buy Me Love, her first contemporary romance, publishes March 2012. She also writes for film and television. Maggie is married and lives in Los Angeles.

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fun story in alternating perspectives!, August 12, 2008
This review is from: Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club (Hardcover)
Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club follows the lives of four friends in Hollywood. Each chapter is told from an alternating viewpoint but their storylines always cross paths. At first I suspected it may be similar to all the other chick lit I had read and in a way it was, but at the same time it was much more fun that I remember other chick lit books being. Maybe because it was set around the movie business which is something I'm really interested in. I also felt the alternating viewpoints was a great strength of keeping the story interesting. I feel chick lit stories told from one perspective always turn into "poor me stories" where the main character is always feeling sorry for herself about something. I didn't feel that so much with this story. I also loved the bit of mystery to the story, it helped me keep reading because I wanted to know what happened. I also enjoyed the characters of Kiki and Boom Boom, some people not directly in the circle of the four main characters. I do feel it would have been best if I had read the first book first (didn't realize there was one until I started reading the book) it would have been nice to get the background on the main characters families and so forth, in the second book they are just mentioned in the background mostly. This was a fun book that I really enjoyed!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Can You Keep the Secret?, November 28, 2009
This review is from: Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club (Hardcover)
Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club is an extreme eye opener of what the Hollywood scene is all about. Narrator and leading publicist Kiki Dee leads us through the lives of four friends trying to stay on top of their Hollywood game. Actress Celeste Solange is trying desperately to maintain her youthful face, even when it means going under the knife. But the real fact she is trying to hide is her kinky sex tape made with ex husband before it is leaked to the internet and her devoted fans find out she isn't as sweet and innocent as her persona seems- and before her husband and Worldwide Pictures exec Ted Robinoff realizes it exists. Mary Anne Meyers, the naive screenwriter from Minnesota, is attempting to begin a relationship with the delicious actor Holden Humphrey, but him being forced to act opposite is mentally unstable ex-girlfriend is causing cracks in the blossoming relationship. Lydia Albright, producer and new president to Worldwide Pictures knows about Celeste's sex tape and how important it is to keep the secret, ensuring the longevity of Celeste's career and the multimillion dollars her company has invested in the actress. And agent Jessica Caulfield-Fox is trying to help all her friends avoid a scandal, all while trying to juggle her new role as producer/manager/wife/mother.

The four friends stick together, but end up putting all their careers on the line to try to keep the sex tape under wraps. But publicist Kiki Dee has just stumbled upon a very large secret, something so huge, so extreme, that it would throw all of Hollywood into a tailspin. But can she prove it? And can the friends manage to keep their secrets, careers, and personal lives in check throughout the whole ordeal?

Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club by Maggie Marr will keep anyone on their toes, constantly flipping pages in hopes of uncovering all the dirty secrets the power players of Hollywood keep. If you love the celebrity world, this book is a must for your list!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Secrets should stay hidden, May 13, 2009
This review is from: Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club (Hardcover)
This is a case of a book with multiple personalities. I started it, expecting a typical chick lit book and what I got was mystery, romance, and tawdry sex, none of which were done well. The book is ostensibly about four Hollywood friends and the secrets they keep for each other. Unfortunately for readers, none of these women are all that sympathetic. I didn't find myself rooting for anyone in this book nor did I care what happened to a single one of them. The secrets kept were tawdry and seemed ridiculous secrets to try to keep in this scandal obsessed age of Hollywood. The "inside look" at the behind-the-scenes workings of Hollywood turned my stomach. I didn't need this, I'd rather live in blissful ignorance of the vast PR machine that is today's stars. Finally, the author's extremely graphic descriptions of sex bordered on indecent and were certainly gratuitous. If there is sex in a book I read, I want it to be hinted at and loving, not fetishist, particularly in what should be a fun, simple beach read. I did not enjoy this book and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
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