From Publishers Weekly
When stage actress Kate McPhee quits London for L.A., leaving behind her cheating boyfriend and former best friend (yes, they were in bed together), she speedily lands a gig on the hit soap opera
Live for Tomorrow, playing its beautiful, vampire-fighting lesbian cop, Det. Devon Merrick. Sounds like a cushy job—until she discovers the 20-hour shooting sessions, the bevy of perfect blondes making her life hell, the vapid but oh-so-gorgeous men, and her archenemy, the domineering matriarch of the show, Meredith Contini, who's a girlie-girl 60-something still trying to play 35. Determined to succeed, Kate sucks it up and makes the most of the sunshine and the sexy-but-dumb men passing her way, but as her popularity grows, Meredith grows more and more jealous, and Kate's life starts looking more and more like a soap opera itself. Readers will enjoy this spicy, sly behind-the-scenes look at the soap opera world—Hughes won an Emmy for her work on
General Hospital and her bio somewhat resembles her heroine's—and Kate is a funny, warm character who could have popped out of a Jennifer Weiner novel. The book is overlong, and the plot wanders from place to place, but the humor and good-natured banter make it worth the ride.
Agent, Richard Barber. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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After catching her boyfriend in bed with her best friend, Kate McPhee leaves London for LA and a career in acting. She lands her first job in the soaps. But when leading lady Meredith Contini sees Kate as a threat, she changes the script to get even. However, Kate's popularity continues to rise. Finola Hughes's delivery is fast, clipped, and at times comedic, but the one-dimensional story line is both difficult to follow and tasteless. The steady pace of practice dialogue scenes seems endless and soon becomes irritating. This romp through the "soaps" will appeal only to soap opera fans, and not many of them. G.D.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine--
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