Book Review
of The Rebel Princess Sponsored by Enchanted Book Tours
Title: The Rebel Princess
Author: Anne M. Strick
Genre: Adult Romance
Blurb
:
An insider's first-ever
behind-the-scenes scoop on how movies are REALLY made: gritty, grinding,
tunnel-vision labor, back-stage intrigue, explosive dramas, parties, and
relationships that last a night or a lifetime.
Larger-than-life characters who live life with fervor, while contending with their own inner demons and one another, all in the pressure cooker of a location shoot in the exotic world of Mexico. This romp of a story follows the making of a movie from pre-production through wrap. A hotly passionate love story and a murder elevate the stakes.
Larger-than-life characters who live life with fervor, while contending with their own inner demons and one another, all in the pressure cooker of a location shoot in the exotic world of Mexico. This romp of a story follows the making of a movie from pre-production through wrap. A hotly passionate love story and a murder elevate the stakes.
About the
Author:
Anne
M.Strick has spent over twenty years in the movie industry. She has worked for
Universal, Warners, Paramount and EMI, as a Unit Publicist, Project Coordinator
and National Publicity Director, and with such Hollywood legends as Jack
Nicholson, James Earl Jones, Sean Penn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Lynch,
Sting and Dino De Laurentiis, among many others. She has published theater reviews, articles
in Parents Magazine , Frontier and The Nation, and six books: two novels, two
self-help books, one memoir (a best-seller in Italy); and a non-fiction,
scholarly critique of our adversary trial system. (”remarkable”) . Born in
Philadelphia, and educated at Bennington College and UCLA, she lives in Los Angeles.
Contacts:
Website:
http://www.annemstrick.com/
Excerpt:
WARNING. The second excerpt is NOT
appropriate for anyone under the age of 18.
Last night she’d had the dream
again. The dream she hated and
loved. She smelled the sea brine and the
sharp pines that rose beyond the dunes, saw the tide-pool anemones open and
close about their viscous centers. She
felt the heat move from her soles up through her calves to her thighs and
pelvis and the small of her back from the sun baked sand; felt the melting
begin. Her nipples tightened. She heard the waves slide and suck, in and
out, insinuating, hypnotic. And as
shockingly as always the green-eyed, gypsy-faced stranger burst – jogging,
grinning with knowing primal energy – through the tall grass at the top of the
rise. And as always, that energy struck
her like a blow: sudden, deep, forever.
Jason. Jason Archer.
Davena, waking slowly
in the huge four poster, ran her hand through her curtain of sun-tipped
chestnut hair in irritation. Merde. It was the Dom Perignon. Whenever she’d drunk too much, as she had the
evening before, she had the damn dream.
And awoke in heat – for a man from whom she’d been divorced six
years. And despite having been thoroughly
laid by Bram last night. Humiliating.
She rolled over and buried her head
beneath the pillow, hiding from the familiar soul-pain, denying it - – and then
with a shake of her disheveled mane sat abruptly up. The clock next to her bed read six am – the
alarm, set for five-thirty, had somehow failed.
Or, webbed in her dream, she’d slept through it.
Book Review:
A more modern take on the classic
love story, this story shows the gritty underbelly of life on a Hollywood production. While the classic love story bones are
present, the story is both disturbing and romantic.
I didn’t care much for parts of the
story where there were side stories that never really seemed to get resolved,
such as the sister and with some of the minor story plots. Overall, the story was good.
I give this story 3 out of 5 clouds.
This
product or book may have been distributed for review; this in no way affects my
opinions or reviews.
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