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Gorgeous by Paul Rudnick

April 20, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know how a Cinderella Story ends, so I was pleasantly surprised by how much of Paul Rudnick’s Gorgeous managed to subvert my expectations. Becky Randle is given an unusual gift when her reclusive mother dies in the trailer home they share. She learns that her mother was once a fashion model for the designer Tom Kelly (a brand as much as a man in the Calvin Klein manner), and Kelly is offering to make plain Becky the most […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Paul Rudnick

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:55 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Paul Rudnick ·
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Fun, if insubstantial

It's all your fault by Paul Rudnick

January 21, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

This is a book that was clearly written to be a movie, or at the very least conceptualized as one. So I guess it shouldn’t have been a surprise that the reason I recognized Rudnick’s name on the cover  (prompting my “I’ll read this at the library while watching my toddler” easy read choice) was from his work as a screenwriter. This young adult novel follows the goody-two-shoes Caitlyn, hired to keep her famous wild-child actress cousin (who is legally distinct from but awfully similar […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Paul Rudnick, teen, written to be a movie

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:9 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Paul Rudnick, teen, written to be a movie ·
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