![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pasadena debutante Margaret Frobisher, former vaudeville star Gabby Preston, and sultry party girl Amanda Farraday are Olympus's newest ingénues, but the road to stardom is perilous: Amanda needs to cover up her past as a paid escort, Margaret is dangerously naïve, and Gabby is relying on drugs from the studio's doctors to lose weight. Starstruck is set in late-1930s Hollywood, where Olympus Studios is churning out hit after hit. Rachel Shukert's Starstruck steals most of its plot from Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, but Shukert's YA novel is a vast improvement on Susann's dour melodrama, transforming a silly and overwrought story into something smart, ambitious, and utterly engrossing. ![]()
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