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By: Cara Lynn, guest reviewer

Some Nerve by Jane Heller promised to be an interesting book, but it turned out to be less than I had hoped for.

The cover looked intriguing, but alas, the story could have been summed up in about 10 pages.

Plus it is quite dated, printed in 2006, and opening with Britney Spears pregnant with her first child. It shows how careful one should be in including various trivia, even if the book is about the fictional Ann Roth, who writes about celebrities.

When Roth’s boss demands she go for the main man, the big get, Malcolm Goddard who refuses all interviews and thinks the worst of interviewers to the stars, she has every intention of being the killer journalist her boss expects.

Alas, she is afraid to fly. Goddard knows this too and says he will accept the interview only if she does it aboard his plane.

She can’t do it.

She is fired and goes back to her family, where Goddard ends up hospitalized to avoid the paparazzi. She, in turn, decides to become a candy striper in order to get close to him and get a story.

Of course, they fall in love. Goddard doesn’t recognize her. She doesn’t tell him at all. He thinks she is honest. She wishes she were. Someone sends her story, not her. But all ends well in the end.

There is humor, some laughs out loud, but for the most part this book details again and again and again and…you get the idea…about her fear(s). I ended up skipping huge sections of it except for a sentence here and there.

And there are some decidedly unlikeable characters and situations in the book.

I give it a 1.

I will read at least one more of her books.

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Originally posted 2008-07-10 05:18:22. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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