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    The Actress
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Actress

    Written by Amy Sohn

    Narrated by Ann Marie Lee

    2.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    All Maddy Freed has ever wanted is to act. When the indie film she made wins her a special acting prize, she's thrilled but doesn't yet understand how much it will change her life. Then she catches the eye of Bridget Ostrow, a legendary talent manager whose biggest client is Hollywood heartthrob Steven Weller. Before Maddy knows it, her career has shifted onto the express track. Bridget secures Maddy an audition for an Oscar-worthy role opposite Steven, and soon the two actors are thrown together amid Europe’s Old World charm. Though for years there have been rumors that Steven is gay, it doesn’t take long before their professional relationship turns personal. After the passionate whirlwind wedding, though, rumors continue to swirl, and cracks start to appear in their fairytale lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJul 22, 2014
    ISBN9781629237619
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    The Actress
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    Amy Sohn

    Amy Sohn’s novels include Prospect Park West, Motherland, The Actress, and The Man Who Hated Women. Her articles have appeared in New York, Harper’s Bazaar, Playboy, and The Nation. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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    • 2/5
      What an utterly unnecessary novel.I read this because of the "inside baseball" look at Hollywood, and that was enough to keep me reading. But oh, this book is problematic. Maddy, as a character, is basically too stupid to function. Every character seems so concerned about whether Steven is secretly gay -- and it erases everything. Maddy seems to care about infidelity only because it might be with a man, as though if Steven were cheating with a woman she doesn't care. Everything is black and white, straight or gay, as though there is no middle option or room for complexity. It's grating. And the ending, ugh, so saccharine it's insulting. There's also an insultingly inaccurate pregnancy plotline with a magic "get pregnant from one single instance of unprotected sex" followed by a cringeworthy hyperemesis gravidarum plotline. I was insulted both as a woman with infertility and as a woman who had hyperemesis gravidarum. Either the author doesn't know anything about pregnancy or she wanted Maddy to be the special-est of special snowflakes, which I guess tracks with Maddy's characterization otherwise, but again, ugh.