Title: Lack of Star Quality
Product review: I read this book hoping that it would be a wonderful generational saga like Barbara Taylor Bradford's books or Judith Krantz or even her sister's books, full of juicy details of the roaring twenties, theatre and Hollywood in it's heyday. What I got instead was the literary equivalent of gruel.How is it possible for Joan Collins, a British subject, not to know that the daughter of a Duke, is styled a Lady not an Honorable? Or that Bugsy Siegal didn't start building his hotel in Vegas till the late forties?This book was full of cliche's, thin characterization, and bad dialogue. The purported villainess of the piece spends most of the book unseen, only to pop up occasionally like the proverbial bad penny. If this book had come over the transom without a famous name attached, it would not even have published.Ms. Collins would do well to stick to what she knows.
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