In this book a woman is unhealthily obsessed with her mother. Her mother meanwhile is unhealthily obsessed with her career in Hollywood. There is also a surrogate son character who is just generally unhealthy. I found this to be a quick-moving interesting read, but I can feel myself already forgetting it. I think it’s because everyone in it is so unendingly miserable. At some point towards the end there is like a rising arc, where you start to think we might get some kind of evolution or at least insight but then LOL no, how can you be so naïve, there is no escape! Everyone is just as unhealthy as they were before
I just found this dumb. We eyeroll romances because everyone is so beautiful and happy, which is kind of silly. This I found a bit silly too, just in the opposite direction, towards ugliness and despair.