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India's Summer (2012)

by Thérèse(Favorite Author)

2.81 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1936558351 (ISBN13: 9781936558353)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

The Fiction Studio

review 1: For some reason, I decided to read something light. I found this on my Kindle--perhaps it was available for free when I downloaded it. The book has nothing to do with India. It is a novel (supposedly) about a London based high-school teacher named India (sorry, there's no background story about the name) and her experiences during a summer she spends in Hollywood with her celebrity sister. The book narrates India's efforts to cope with the American, that too LA lifestyle; her career switch to conducting workshops for celebrity moms that are struggling with their problematic teenagers; and her love life with a movie star. The whole thing is predictably fluffy. That in itself in not a problem--I quite expected it when I started reading it. The book is just extremely terribly... more written with a plot that goes nowhere. If I had a pound for every time the author drops a brand name, I'd end up rich.
review 2: This one was just okay for me. While I liked India and her sister Annabelle, I found the storyline a little jumpy and hard to follow. Many times I had to reread as all the sudden we were in a new place or it would jump from one person's POV to another and I wouldn't know whose eyes I was supposed to be seeing out of. India moves to L.A. for the summer to live with her sister Annie and her rock star husband. She doesn't seem to be satisfied with who she is, as it sounds like over the years she has tried to find a "style" that fits her and in her eyes has been unsuccessful. She is also burnt out on teaching and is wondering if she shouldn't try a different career. She is thrown into the celebrity whirlwind with parties, fund raisers, and paparazzi. She begins to date a movie star, Adam, but when he questions her about her career she tends to be vague about the fact that she was a teacher in England. She creates this fantasy job that she comes to realize is closer to what she really wants to do. When tragedy strikes it seems like it all happens at once (and actually, it does seem that that is how it happens. . .)Even though India isn't always true to herself, she is loyal and true to her friends and makes herself available to them when they need her. Following this path she really does start to develop some workshops as well as a book proposal and finds her niche in helping people. There is more chaos and more success before the book wraps up. All in all it wasn't a page turner for me but it was entertaining. less

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