The Sex Was Great But... [Paperback]

Tyne O'Connell (Author)

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Holly Klein, the host of the celebrity makeover show MakeMeOver thinks she has big problems. She's just been voted "Most Shallow Female Celebrity" in a glossy magazine's reader poll and is fretting about the future of her career when her purse is snatched. Leo, out panhandling with a friend because he has nothing better to do, retrieves her bag but gets hurt in the process. Holly invites him to her house to get him cleaned up, and when Nancy, the producer of her show, sees him, she gets a brilliant idea. Holly can do a makeover on Leo and have all Hollywood believing he's a celebrity. Leo agrees in order to be close to Holly, and it isn't long before the two give in to their mutual attraction. But Holly refuses to be with Leo anywhere but in the privacy of her pool house, and the makeover show ultimately threatens to come between them. O'Connell's debut is a delightful, lighthearted romp around Hollywood and the world of reality television. Kristine Huntley
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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Red Dress Ink (August 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373250673
• ISBN-13: 978-0373250677
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,466,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

"Bridget Jones on speed. She's funnier, sharper, and there's no way she's going to end up with anyone called Darcy"
THE GUARDIAN
"Lightening Fast Comic twists" ELLE UK
"Funny exposé of It-girlschool life." ELLE GIRL UK
"Briget Jones for the early teen set."- WASHINGTON POST USA
"A wickedly funny, bitchy, romp set at the heart of the trendy London art scene.
(Publishing News)
"Lightening Fast Comic twists" ELLE UK
"Outrageously funny and a serious contender for the teen chick-lit throne."
- Claudia Mody, The Bookseller

British author Tyne O'Connell, is an international bestselling author of thirteen books - eight contemporary fiction and five YA titles including A ROYAL MATCH and A ROYAL MESS. Her stories are inhabited by British eccentrics and aritos at large. She has been featured in Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and most UK broadsheets. Cassandra Jardine hailed her as "A modern day Elinor Glyn - the original It Girl" and "The Queen Bee Incarnate". She has contributed stories to the Girl's Night In, Kid's Night In and the Travel Goddess series.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars lighthearted Chick lit romp, July 28, 2004

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sex Was Great But... (Paperback)

On top of her boyfriend Ted's revelations about her to Star, "Her Voice" magazine acclaims that makeover show host Holly Klein has been voted the "shallowest woman in Hollywood". When she goes to run some errands, people curse her and someone steals her pursue. Homeless Leo Monroe recovers her purse, diaphragm and all.

Holly's producer and perhaps only real friend Nancy Catkin thinks Leo is perfect to provide a make over to Holly's battered image. The plan is to give the street hero a make over on her program. Leo reluctantly agrees thinking that this might be his ticket back to England and besides it will gives him a few weeks of luxury in her elite home with a pool. Neither anticipated an attraction between the glitter star and the pauper, but the sex deserves its own square on the Walk of Fame as even Holly wonders whether the relationship deserves decades beyond her show.

Chick lit fans will appreciate this lighthearted Hollywood romp between the "Princess" and the Pauper. Though the plot seems inane yet amusing on the surface, the story line has a serious undertone involving the homeless that works well because of Leo contrasts the two worlds, minutes apart yet zillions of lifestyles away. Thus Leo undergoes a physical makeover, but the shallowest person on the planet is actually the one that changes as he and his misfit associates touch the untouchable heart of Holly.

Harriet Klausner

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars akkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, September 6, 2004

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Romana Cleff (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sex Was Great But... (Paperback)

I hated this book. I could have cared less about any of these people and what happens to them. It was an excruciating experience to the end. The pace was slow and boring,the characters unbelievable and tedious. It as a shame and environmental travesty that trees were killed in order to publish this book. Pass it by

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars entirely mediocre, January 23, 2005

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M. H. Bayliss "book queen" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sex Was Great But... (Paperback)

This book is fun for the first few pages, but then it fizzles. The writing is too clever for its own good, you don't care much about any of the characters and the plot is non-existent. There are SO many chick lit books that manage to be charming and entertaining, so this one is a failure by comparison. I'm not trying to compare it to great literature, but even within it's own somewhat trashy genre, it is remarkably undistinguished. I'm not sure what even kept me going except the drive to finish the darn thing and never have to see it again. Even the so-called sex scenes were a snore.