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    Adored
    Adored
    Adored
    Audiobook40 hours

    Adored

    Written by Tilly Bagshawe

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

    3/5

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    About this audiobook

    This debut novel by Tilly Bagshawe has earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews and is hailed as "simply intoxicating" by Library Journal. Called an escapist fantasy by the author, Adored is right at home alongside the best fiction from Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins. Bold and beautiful Siena McMahon wants to be a movie star like her grandfather. But her father, a bigshot producer, wants Siena to be a doctor. So Siena sets out on her own in this epic romance filled with glamourous characters and locales.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 12, 2008
    ISBN9781436196475
    Adored
    Author

    Tilly Bagshawe

    Tilly Bagshawe is the internationally bestselling author of nine previous novels. A single mother at seventeen, Tilly won a place at Cambridge University and took her baby daughter with her.She went on to enjoy a successful career in the City before becoming a writer. As a journalist, Tilly contributed regularly to the Sunday Times, Daily Mail and Evening Standard before following in the footsteps of her sister Louise and turning her hand to novels.

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    • 1/5
      Couldn't get into this at all. All the characters are nasty or weak or horrible! Listened to some on audio then gave up.
    • 5/5
      Wow great debut!!!! love it
    • 1/5
      Well, that was 700 pages of awful.
    • 2/5
      Some critics compared this to Jackie Collins, but Jackie Collins is MUCH more interesting than this seemingly endless (548 pages) novel of evil Hollywood. The impossibly gorgeous and talented Siena McMahon is from a great Hollywood dynasty, yet even fame and fortune have their downside. Cheating, lying, abuse, family grudges, betrayal... yawn.
    • 4/5
      Fast pace, reads like a Jackie Collins novel, very entertaining.
    • 4/5
      Enter a world of adjective overload where every armed guard is a "heavily armed guard," where every head of blond hair is "luxuriant," where...aww, eff it. You get the picture. Hemmingway this ain't, and neither you nor I nor anybody else would want it to be. And, damnit, did I try hard to loathe this book. But nope, couldn't. Despite the plot twists too silly and too numerous to list, despite the rather grotesquely overdone sex scenes, despite the aforementioned attack of the adjectival clauses...there was a core to this book that worked. Damned if I know what it was, possibly it was somehow that the characters did in fact -- despite everything -- seem real? You knew how this 21st century morality play was going to come out, yet you kept the headphones on yer ears, bucko. And you lapped it up, listening to the last three disks in order, nonstop. The man police will be by to collect your testicles shortly. Damn, and I'm gonna miss 'em. :(Should I dignify this "review" with any mention of the plot? giggle, snort, hell, no. It was squirted from a tube, the literary equivalent of cheez whiz. But you don't go to cocktail parties for the cheez whiz, and you don't read books like this for their plot, either. Plucky young female always wins out in the end, always gets the man of her dreams after various and sundry tribulations. I mean, c'mon. If cheez whiz is a bit harsh, perhaps an amusement park ride is a more appropriate metaphor.Oh, and speaking of testicles...when I saw the name "Tilly Bagshawe" I said to myself, "Self, if that isn't a pen name I'll cut my testicles off and eat them." But it apparently is not. Apparently there really are people in the world named "Tilly Bagshawe," and even people in the world named that who've never starred in their own adult film. So, its just as well I'm gonna have to turn them in. Can't imagine they'd be very tasty.Also, Barbara Rosenblat is to be commended as narrator. For the first hour and a half her voice was annoying has hell, but once we got past the Duke McMahon parts she seemed to settle down and all in all do a better than average job. Annoying that LT has no block to check in the "other authors" section for narrator.
    • 4/5
      A modern answer to Judith Krantz!! I didn't know anyone wrote these wonderful, fun, trashy family dynasty novels anymore. I loved this - a blast to read, with all the diamonds and silly smuttyness of a Krantz novel, only with more up-to-date cultural references and fashions. A must-read for Krantz fans.
    • 1/5
      This book didn't grab me within the first couple of chapters, so I didn't finish it. What I did read was too whiny for me.