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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780312349806
ISBN number: 0312349807
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 432
Printing Date: February 20, 2007
Publishing house: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 151964
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The 'him' in MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD is Ricky Biscayne, sexy Latin singing sensation who has taken the pop world by storm. The women who orbit him include:
--Milan, Ricky's new publicist, smart as a whip and chubby as only a girl who still lives at home with her parents can be
--Geneva, Milan's sister and as lean and chic as Milan is not; her Club G promises to be Miami's hottest opening ever
--Jasminka, Ricky's gorgeous Serbian model wife, who finally might eat a little something now that she's pregnant
--Irene, a firefighter whose high school romance with Ricky was the last love in her life, eking out an existence for herself and her daughter.
--Sophia, who is beginning to suspect that she and Ricky Biscayne look a little too much alike
--Jill Sanchez, an omniverous media-manic Latina star who has crossed over from CDs to perfume, clothes and movies
Set in and around Miami, with its vibrant music, club and modeling scenes, MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD is irresistible fiction.
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If you have never read any of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's books, do not start with this one. Her very first two books are good reads, with characters that you feel for and like. There isn't one character in this book that I liked. The lead is a superficial, whiny brat with a crush.
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If you want to like the subject of your book, you should find another book. There is no one totally likable in this book. If you think some one was innocent, you should check again.
However, I like flawed characters, so I enjoyed this novel.
The ending was a bit trite but the book had to end.
Better then a Lifetime movie but not as good as HBO.
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I was surprised by many of the things other reviews mentioned: bad grammar, poor continuity, and the blatant trashing of barely disguised celebrities. The J.Lo/Ben/Jen Garner triangle was the most obvious, but what was shocking to me were some of the side stories, such as the two characters meant to describe Thalia and Tommy Mattola. For any Latina who watches novelas and loves her Thalia songs, this was incredibly shocking. The public sexual encounter between then two made them look like low-class, debased, drug-addicted perverts. I didn't know what to think! How could Alisa publish something like this? If it were completely false, wouldn't they have sued her? If it was accurate in any way, then who has the Mexican public been adoring for years???
This on top of the naivete of Ricky's wife, Jill's cruelty and manipulation, Ricky's complete lack of talent (which, if Ricky were based on Marc Anthony is far from true), Milan's utter stupidity and complete lack of self-esteem (which she then seems to grow out of nowhere towards the end of the book), and the behaviour of all of the celebrities mentioned ('Jill's ex -Ben, obviously- and his love for gay love trysts, Jill's desire for rough, dirty, [...] sex)... all of this was too much... it sank to the levels of semi-hard porn...
The main character was so weak and gullible. I really don't recommend this book to anyone, even if they like reading tabloid magazines.
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As always, I enjoyed reading Alisa's books. They are easy and fun to read!!
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I loved Valdes-Rodriguez's "Dirty Girls Social Club"...it wasn't perfect but it had soul. Since then both her following books haven't impressed me much.
Make Him Look Good is filled with one too many characters, as much as I'd like to know everybody's story it gets kind of annoying. The characters don't warm up to you as much, some I cared about, some I very happily skipped. They were all pretty much cookie cutter predictable characters. The story was also equally predictable. The most unbelievable was the way the end shaped up.
It's a pass-time type of a read as long as your expectations are low!
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