Dollhouse
William Morrow
An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Meet the Romeros, Mom Kat, sisters, Kassidy, Kamille and Kyle. The Romero’s life is turned upside down when husband/dad David Romero dies suddenly and they have to sell their house for something more modest. A life insurance policy allows Kat to buy a defunct restaurant in West Hollywood. Then she marries Beau, a retired Dodger pitcher, and he add his kids, Benjy and Bree, to the family.
Then one of the sisters is “discovered” and becomes a model which forces the entire family into the spotlight. It doesn’t take them long to realize that being a celebrity in L.A.’s “gilded dollhouse” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Dollycas’s Thoughts
I know what you are thinking, this is just another spin-off from the Kardashian television series and you are right, but don’t we always say authors write about what they know. This is what these girls know.
Seriously, I do enjoy their t.v. show, one of my little guilty pleasures, but I really hadn’t planned on reading this book until my twenty year old daughter said “Mom, you have to read this book!” She loved it!!!! So I read it. It is a very fast read and at first I thought I was wasting my time until the dialogue started sounding just the way they talk to each other on the show and the way my daughter talks to her friends. Then I started to realize that if the authors were not the famous Kardashians with all the hype, the story wasn’t bad. A Young Adult novel about a dysfunctional family trying to function in the Hollywood spotlight.
Yes, Kassidy is based on Kourtney, Kamille is based on Kim, Kyle is based on Khloe, Kat is based on Kris Jenner but this is a fiction story. Perfect and fun for those older teens and twenties girls to read and enjoy. Like my daughter they would love it. So my daughter would give it five stars, an old lady like me would give it a three so I’ll average that out.
**One small gripe but this is the publisher’s fault not the authors. The book jacket shows the family name as the Rameros and the book has the name as Romeros. This should have been caught before it hit the shelves.
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