My Own Personal Soap Opera
Looking for reality in all the wrong places
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Publisher Description
Is life stranger than fiction, or vice versa?
Frankie McNally has found the perfect solution for life's perplexing problems: as head writer for the daytime soap Lust for Life, she works them out on the air!
Meanwhile, Frankie's being courted simultaneously by the dashing older man sent in to save the show's sagging ratings and by the soap's totally hot leading man. And just when Frankie thinks the plot couldn't get more complicated, a jewel thief starts copying the show's storyline-a development that could send the show's ratings soaring, if it doesn't get Frankie arrested first...
In her signature blending of the hilarious with the poignant, Libby Malin's latest light-hearted novel combines the best of life and of fiction into an entertaining and incredibly satisfying read.
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Malin's latest is heavy on humor, but disappoints with plot. Frankie McNally is the head writer for Lust for Life, the longest-running (and currently lowest-rated) television soap opera, and while she can't shake the sense that she should be writing the Great American Novel, Frankie's use of the show to work out her innermost frustrations through the characters has therapeutic value. But when management calls in marketing guru Victor Pendergrast to save the show, Frankie's suddenly a little less comfortable. Victor immediately clashes with Frankie on the show's biggest problem: how to address the fact that a real-life jewel thief has adopted a modus operandi similar to one used by a thief on the show. Meanwhile, Frankie's predictable attraction to Victor is at odds with the sparks she feels with the show's leading man. Malin (Fire Me) coaxes plenty of laughs, but the multitude of misunderstandings and contrivances needed to resolve the mystery and concoct a happily-ever-after are painfully melodramatic, even by daytime TV standards.
