Advika and the Hollywood Wives by Kirthana Ramisetti, 384 pages.
Advika is 26 and bartending in Hollywood as her dreams of being screenwriter flounders. Then one of the Oscar winners at the Governor's Ball flirts with her and she ends up in a whirlwind romance (and soon after, elopement) with a man 40 years her senior. Soon cracks begin to show in the surface of the happy couple veneer, but Advika doesn't really begin to ask questions until her husband's first ex-wife dies and leaves a million dollars and a mysterious film reel to "Julian's latest child bride." Then the questions, and a reconstruction of Julian's three former marriages, get to pressing not to ask.
The premise to this book sounded super interesting! It seemed like a fun mystery and the cover is really cool. Unfortunately it fell very flat for me. The book is written like a thriller, but there's just not enough actual danger to justify the tone. There are also several plot holes and characters that are hard to buy. To top it all off it's one of those books where the ending is so bad it retroactively makes the rest of the book worse. Overall, very disappointing.
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