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Title: Entertaining but over-the-top
Review: In general, I agree with the other reviews posted here. Our heroine, Wollie, is a perceptive, compassionate and funny woman struggling to survive in the LA maelstrom. She scratches from job-to-job, happily accepting an apartment-sitting gig to save on rent as well as a dubious role on a reality tv show, hoping to win extended life insurance for herself and her mentaly-ill brother.I enjoyed this book and its precedent. My quibble is that I think Ms. Kozak tries to do too much. The byzantine array of plots and subplots introduce us to a cast of characters so large you wish at times you had a scorecord to keep them straight.Given that, Kozak's writing is still energetic and fresh and doesn't reveal any of the burn-out that has crept into the writing of her contempoaries in recent years.
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