All The Bold Days
By Editor Alexandra Wolfe
Title: ALL THE BOLD DAYS OF MY RESTLESS LIFE
Author: Sharon Stone
Publisher: Alyson Books
ISBN: 1-55583-908-8
Rated: 3 Stars
Genre: Humour
If you are already the head writer on a daytime drama called All the Bold Days of My Restless Life, can you say your life is just like a soap opera? That’s the question facing Bailey Connors, who two days before Christmas is dumped by her girlfriend; ordered to kill off the soap’s leading lady, Morgan Gable; and saddled with 22-year-old Lindsay Stubblefield, the daughter of a network executive, who has decided to become a writer so that she can get close to one of the show’s leading men.
Adding to the complications, Bailey’s best friend, Peter, has decided to play matchmaker. He sets Bailey up with a woman who hosts a late-night cable show called Mona’s Midnight Sexcapades, a second woman who has decided to give up men because her birth control keeps failing, and a third who turns out to be a very on-edge undercover vice cop.
When word of Morgan’s imminent departure from the show hits the press, the crank mail and death threats start pouring in. Seeing an opportunity to boost ratings, the network decides to air the death episode live. If Bailey can keep herself together long enough, she might pull off the triumph of her career. What she doesn’t know is that love is waiting on the other side in a very unexpected manner.
This book does have its comic moments, hence the three-star rating but is not a lesbian romance, or, in fact, a lesbian anything. I can’t say I fault the writing in this one, the author, Sharon Stone, has a nice easy flowing style and, on the whole, this is an easy read. It’s just that I don’t think I was prepared for the story nor, may I say, the characters to be so…well, soapy. I know, this is probably my fault as I am not a great fan of, nor do I watch any of the daytime soaps.
So how did I end up reading this book? Ah, well, that, my dear reader, is something we both may never know.
All that said, if you are a fan of watching the soaps and in the crazed frenzy you imagine goes on behind the making-of, and the running-of, a daily soap, then, by all means, this book will be both a delight and a charm. The humour is light and, at times, does sparkle. . .that is, if you like to see bubbles erupting from your mouth occasionally. Okay, so I’m teasing here.
Light, frothy, funny and, at times, a delight, but still…wasn’t my own personal cup of tea.
REVIEWED BY ALEXANDRA WOLFE
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