The Unidentified Redhead (The Redhead, #1)

by Alice Clayton

When Grace Sheridan returns to Los Angeles to become a working actress, it's a second shot at a life-long dream. With some help from her best-friend agent, will that dream become a reality-or at thirty-three, has Grace missed her chance at the big time?

When an unexpected sizzling romance with Jack Hamilton, the entertainment industry's newest "it" boy, threatens to shine an uncomfortable spotlight on her life, how will that affect her career…and his?

• ISBN10: 1476741220
• ISBN13: 9781476741222
• Publish Date: 24 October 2013 (first published 1 February 2010)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 22 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: Gallery
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 336
• Language: English

Reviews

[The Romantic Comedy Book Club]

Grace is talented, charming, quick witted, and way in over her head! Forget Ryan Gosling - give me Jack any day!

[Cocktails and Books]

I loved this book! There. I said it. Wait...I'll say it again. I loved this book.

There was just something about Grace, Holly, Nick and more importantly, Jack Hamilton, that had me from the very beginnnig. Yes, sometimes the humor was childish and crass, but it made it fun to read and had me laughing...a lot.

Jack and Grace were special. These two people were coming from very different ends of the Hollywood spectrum, but they were absolutely perfect for each other. Alice Clayton may have had me laughing through most of their early relationship (Grace and the seagull...that's all I'm going to say), but she wrote their crazy romance in a such a way that you could tell that these two were meant for each other.

The secondary characters were almost as enjoyable as Jack and Grace. Holly was the perfect best friend for the slightly off balance, Grace. Sometimes you just need a blunt best friend. This was Holly. Then there was Nick...the gay BF. He added to comedy, with his fawning over all the pretties, and never failed to make me laugh.

The book was brilliant. It was funny, quirky with a sexy as hell Brit who was very talented off the screen as well. I will warn you, make sure you have access to book two. You wont' want to leave these characters when you get to the last page.

[EBookObsessed]

Grace Sheridan is back in L.A. to try once again to become a star. When she first graduated from college, she and her friend Holly headed straight to Hollywood. Holly has become a successful agent, opening her own agency, but Grace’s star never rose and she ended up going home for the last decade. Now she is older and more mature, and she’s ready to put in the work necessary so this time she’ll become a success.

At her first Hollywood party, Grace meets Sexy, Scientist Guy—I mean, the up and coming star, Jack Hamilton, who will be playing the sexy, scientist guy in Time. Grace and Jack hit it off from their first meeting, and although Grace is distracted by the age difference of her 33 vs his 24, his gorgeous curls, brilliant smile, sparkling eyes and great wit are quickly winning her heart.

Grace and Jack are so caught up in their whirlwind romance and how much they enjoy their time together, Grace keeps forgetting Holly’s warnings to them both to keep a low profile. Jack’s star is about to soar and fans aren’t going to be happy if their dreamy sexy, scientist guy is taken. Grace tries to back off when the paparazzi and the fans swarm, but Jack is not the least bit interested in giving up his time with Grace for fan fantasies.

Grace finally gets her chance to shine at an audition which lands her a coveted part in an upcoming play—on Broadway. Will Jack and Grace’s burgeoning romance be able to surviving the 3,000 mile separation as well as Jack’s swarming (and young) fans?

THOUGHTS

I freakin’ love Alice Clayton and I just love Grace and Jack! This story is two things: Sexy and funny! I don’t know which banter was better, Jack and Grace or Grace and her best friend, Holly. If there wasn’t great banter being tossed around, Jack and Grace were busy having sexy, naked time which was sexy and fun all at the same time.

I listened to this on audiobook and narrator Keili Lefkovitz truly brought Grace to life for me.

I nearly spit my lemonade across the room listening to this book. I had to pass my Ipod on to my girlfriend who began by indicating she wasn’t into listening to books. Fifteen minutes later, she came back to me that she was really into the story. The next instant message I received was that she almost spit her coffee all over her desk. Redemption! I knew she’d love it.

What kind of author would even think of throwing seagull poop into a story? This woman is some kind of crazy in the head. Incredible!

I wasn’t a third of the way through the story before I was checking out the rest of the Redhead series and I did an actual happy dance when I saw that there is a third book due out in December.

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