Cocktails and Books
Written on Oct 2, 2015
**Soon to be a full-length movie in September 2017 with Passionflix!**
Cole Masten. Abandoned by his superstar wife, Hollywood's Perfect Husband is now Hollywood's Sexiest Bachelor: partying hard and screwing even harder. Watch out Los Angeles, there's a new bad boy in town.
Summer Jenkins. That's me, a small town girl stuck in Quincy, Georgia. I cook some mean chicken and dumplins, can bluff a grown man out of his savings in poker, and was voted Most Friendly my senior year.
We were from different worlds. Our lives shouldn't have collided. But then Cole Masten read a book about my small town. And six months later, his jet landed on our dusty airstrip, and he brought Hollywood with him.
From the start, I knew he was trouble.
For our town. And for me.
Sometimes, opposites just aren't meant to attract.
- ISBN10 1940941717
- ISBN13 9781940941714
- Publish Date 22 October 2015 (first published 7 September 2015)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Don Congdon Associates
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 430
- Language English
Reviews
leelu92
Written on Sep 7, 2015
In all honesty, I've had a hard time coming up with a review for this book. Not because it was a bad but because I couldn't quite figure out what I thought of it. So, this is me, trying to put that into words.
I enjoy the famous person/ regular person trope and I've read it many ways. I like the way Ms. Torre wrote the dynamic between Summer and Cole. She (Summer) was completely aware of the kind of guy Cole was and had every intention of steering clear of his irresistible charms. After being happily married for many years, his marriage implodes and he goes on a rampage that includes sleeping with every willing woman he could find. Plainly put, he had turned into a dawg. Yes, dawg. That's MY Georgia girl showing ;)
So, Summer knew the guy was bad news and she needed this job to help her raise enough money to finally get out of town. Getting involved with him is sooooo not the plan. Cole has been sent to the set, out in the country, with orders to "keep it in his pants". The media has been all over him and his exploits and that isn't doing his reputation or the divorce proceedings he is going through, any favors. Then he meets his "costar" and it all goes to hell. Needless to say, they have crackling chemistry despite their apparent dislike for each other, which as we all know, eventually simmers into a nice bouillabaisse/stew of sexual tension.
First things first. Cole needed to learn how to exist on his own as an adult without having an assistant at his beck and call. Which happens. He truly needed the time to just BE, with no one else around. Which he got plenty of that in the middle of nowhere. Cole takes time to go on runs and really think. But don't worry, Cole doesn't get too lonely, Summer gives him a pet and that pet...well let's just say that "Cocky" is a hilarious character in Hollywood Dirt.
Torre writes the town, Summer, Cole and the secondary characters in a way that makes you feel like you're watching a movie. She gives all of them a heart and soul that I enjoyed. My only complaint, we that we had to wait to almost 75% of the book for them to get their crap together to figure out just how much they care for each other. I'm the one that wants to see the rest of the love story and the end of the movie. I wanted more of them together and how they adjust to their new life together.
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chemicalscream
Written on Sep 7, 2015