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Ariel Robbins is being swept away on a sea of soap. As a staff writer for the daytime serial, Tryst, Ariel finds herself between feuding headwriters, the show’s need for good ratings during the all important tri-annual sweeps weeks, an out of control producer, and actors who can’t act. Things take a turn for the worse, if that’s possible, when the matchmaking begins. Attractive and simmering with unexpected passions, Dr. Dorsey Rees is brought on board the show as the medical consultant. Try as she might, Ariel can’t avoid Dorsey, as is the intention of every good matchmaker, but there are times when both of them wish they were a globe apart. Like when a parody story for the show is mistakenly submitted, approved enthusiastically and goes on to be a rousing success. All at the expense of Dr. Rees, or Dr. Docktor as he’s known on air.
Against the backdrop of a revolving door of producers, each one less competent than the last, a near-death by an over- indulgence of champagne truffles, a trip to a Caribbean paradise gone terribly awry, an embarrassing Christmas ornament accident, a calamity of miscues, misspoken words, and a lawsuit for defamation of character, Ariel and Dorsey still find it possible to finger-paint their way to love. Her parents adore him, his parents send him to Europe on business to keep him away from her. Ariel can’t help but question whether love is enough to hold a relationship together when such great differences threaten to separate them.
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Barbara Morgenroth was one of the youngest headwriters in the history of daytime television. Although some of the experiences Ariel had are vaguely similar to those Barbara had, luckily, she was never gored by a Christmas ornament. Which leaves many on the table up for speculation.
Against the backdrop of a revolving door of producers, each one less competent than the last, a near-death by an over- indulgence of champagne truffles, a trip to a Caribbean paradise gone terribly awry, an embarrassing Christmas ornament accident, a calamity of miscues, misspoken words, and a lawsuit for defamation of character, Ariel and Dorsey still find it possible to finger-paint their way to love. Her parents adore him, his parents send him to Europe on business to keep him away from her. Ariel can’t help but question whether love is enough to hold a relationship together when such great differences threaten to separate them.
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Barbara Morgenroth was one of the youngest headwriters in the history of daytime television. Although some of the experiences Ariel had are vaguely similar to those Barbara had, luckily, she was never gored by a Christmas ornament. Which leaves many on the table up for speculation.
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Great romantic comedy - with a really thoughtful heroine. Loved her point of view. Interesting insight into daytime television & soaps. I totally enjoyed everything about it, and I think I am going to re-read it now. I really loved it.
I greatly enjoyed this book. It was a bit longer than I was expecting it to be, which is a plus for me.
At one point in the story I did find myself counting back to see how many times the main character had interacted with her potential SO, as I was finding it a little unrealistic, as well as the 20 minutes walks for 3 sentence conversations. Quite frankly, if I had to walk 20 minutes, in the rain, for someone to tell me something that could have been done on the phone, I would be highly irritated. Quite a few times I had the feeling that more was left unsaid.
Overall, I would read this author again. I would enjoy visiting the characters again in a follow up story to see how they would deal with situations such as preschool and religous upbringing.
At one point in the story I did find myself counting back to see how many times the main character had interacted with her potential SO, as I was finding it a little unrealistic, as well as the 20 minutes walks for 3 sentence conversations. Quite frankly, if I had to walk 20 minutes, in the rain, for someone to tell me something that could have been done on the phone, I would be highly irritated. Quite a few times I had the feeling that more was left unsaid.
Overall, I would read this author again. I would enjoy visiting the characters again in a follow up story to see how they would deal with situations such as preschool and religous upbringing.
Poorly written and even worse editing. This book was unrealistic and written as though the writer just wrote down everything that came into her head without a thought for how it all flowed. Whenever she needed, she added a new character and just let the others disappear. Characters were used and disposed of with new ones popping up as needed for a brief use and then they too would disappear. While there were moments of interest, overall it was very disappointing. Considering the main character spends so much time whining about relationships in the soap opera and what the audience wants to see, I am surprised that she didn't think about her audience when writing this book.
A complex tale of the clash between two opposites - who deeply attract each other.
If you like fine writing, word play, emotion, then this is for you.
If you like fine writing, word play, emotion, then this is for you.
Really badly written. Seemed like it was just thrown together and hadn't even had single revision. There was no sense of story or logic to the events. I read Not Low Maintenance by the same author and enjoyed it so was very disappointed with the quality of this.
I'd sampled Low Maintenance first, so tried this sample as well. I gave up and didn't purchase it. (I will purchase LM, I think. It still had a few errors, but was much more interesting.) There's errors, and it goes nowhere for quite the while. Nothing truly happens-just lots of sitting around and talking about stuff I don't much care about--scripts, producers, etc.--without getting to any real action or plot. So I gave up. Sorry.
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