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Hollywood Boulevard
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Ardennes Thrush is an award winning movie star who has suddenly and mysteriously quit acting at the height of her fame. She is in Hollywood, at the Hotel Muse, visiting Andre, her husband, who is a world-renowned director and is at work on his latest movie. Ardennes, a contemplative woman, is a bit of a voyeur, and as she watches the comings and goings in the hotel, she begins to realize that something is strange; perhaps she is being stalked. When a box of dead flowers arrives she calls the police. And when the detective arrives to investigate, their attraction is immediate, powerful, and quickly carnal.
After their first encounter, desire, guilt and fear combine in Ardennes, and the tension rises in the strange, labyrinthine Hotel Muse. Then her stalker arrives at the door of her suite, pulls a gun, forces Ardennes to leave and locks her in a closet. While the detective searches for the actress, we watch rapt as Ardennes, in the darkest of narrow straits, not only tries to free herself but also ponders why this is happening to her, how she brought herself here, and what all the men in her life have had to do with it.
At once a noir novel and a psychological thriller about the complicated emotions of a beautiful, modern celebrity, Hollywood Boulevard is downright compelling. And Ardennes Thrush is a character that readers won’t be able to take their eyes off of.
After their first encounter, desire, guilt and fear combine in Ardennes, and the tension rises in the strange, labyrinthine Hotel Muse. Then her stalker arrives at the door of her suite, pulls a gun, forces Ardennes to leave and locks her in a closet. While the detective searches for the actress, we watch rapt as Ardennes, in the darkest of narrow straits, not only tries to free herself but also ponders why this is happening to her, how she brought herself here, and what all the men in her life have had to do with it.
At once a noir novel and a psychological thriller about the complicated emotions of a beautiful, modern celebrity, Hollywood Boulevard is downright compelling. And Ardennes Thrush is a character that readers won’t be able to take their eyes off of.
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2.5/5
3 ratings7 reviews
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I love Hollywood themed books and the set up on this one was pretty good. We meet a young, talented actress, that marries one of her directors and then decides to retire and never act again. She's bored with this existence but can't seem to shake off the inertia.
Unfortunately this inertia bleeds into the plot and honestly not a whole lot happens and I was left unsatisfied and wanting the end to live up to the beginning. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I received this book as an Early Reviewer, and thus particularly really wanted to enjoy it. Unfortunately, I walked away from this book feeling merely so-so about the whole thing.One of the main issues for me, I think, is that this book was billed as a psychological thriller, which is why I requested to be an Early Reviewer for it. However, as the main character seems to be merely letting life happen to her, rather than having any sort of active role, there was not enough believable psychology and hardly any thrills.Even when the main character was put in seemingly-mortal danger, I couldn't bring myself to care too deeply about her fate, given what a passive character she was.The book did have some good insight into what the acting world can do to a person, and some interesting moments, but the sheer passivity of almost every character, particularly the main character, tended to take the punch out of just about everything.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I started out being very excited to read this book but as I got further in to it I was a little put off. It was like reading about someone who just didn't care any more. Life just happened around her rather than to her.. I don't know what I thought would be so exciting about the book but I hope the authors life has more happening in it than her book did. I do want to add that after writing this review, I e-mailed Rachel Kinbar to explain further why I wasn't as happy with the book as I thought I would be. She e-mailed me back and said that after looking through my library that she understood why I wouldn't like the book. Wrong genre. I try to read various books and about the only books that I don't read are romance. I believe Ms Kinbar needs to rethink her statement. The reason I didn't care for the book had nothing to do with where it's placed in a library.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As I was reading Hollywood Boulevard by Janyce Stefan-Cole it just never really got off the ground for me. The plot started out very slowly and left you wondering exactly where the psychological thriller part of the book comes in. The main character in the book, Ardennes Thrush, seems to go through life without really living. You just can't seem to care about what happens to her. On the other hand, you feel as if you are the voyeur as the style of the book is written entirely from Ardennes view of things. It was not a book that I enjoyed, but then this is Janyce Stefan-Cole's first book. Maybe some of the critiques that she may receive will help with her writing her next book. I received this book through LibraryThings Early Reviewers program and would like to thank them for sending me this book.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I am late getting this review up because of several reasons and I apologize to Early Review for it.I wasn't really able to get into this book and I was looking forward to it since I had read the early review description. Aside from the very slow start, I was never able to connect with Ardennes Thrush and that made it very difficult to really care what was going on or happening to her. For a book billed as a psychological thriller, having all the action happen to the main character, who is very passive, doesn't measure up for me. It was interesting to get an "inside" look at Hollywood, and the strange manipulations of those in it, but, unfortunately, the tedium of the action and the passivity of the characters cannot make up for it. This is not a book I can highly recommend.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hollywood Boulevard is the debut novel of Janyce Stefan-Cole, an artist turned writer. It is the story of Ardennes Thrush, a talented actress who quits acting as she is nearing the peak of her career.Ardennes is living, temporarily, with her husband at the Muse Hotel, off Hollywood Boulevard. Andre is a noted director, and he is shooting a film in Los Angeles. Andre works long hours, and Ardennes is often alone. She is intelligent and introspective and seemingly happy with her decision to quit acting. She has enough money to live comfortably, and sees no need to continue the terrifying process of truly becoming each character she plays. She spends much of her time in Los Angeles watching the comings and going in the hotel, as well as the private homes she can see from her balcony. Ardennes begins to fear that she is being stalked.When Ardennes’s agent dies, she is thrust into the spotlight. Soon after, Ardennes receives a box of dead roses. Clearly, her stalker is real. When Ardennes does investigating on her own, she learns that many years ago, there was a fire in the suite next to hers. The life of the woman who was killed in that fire was strikingly similar to the life of the main character in Andre’s film. Along with an attractive detective, Ardennes wonders if this connection has any bearing on her stalker.Hollywood Boulevard was a quick, fun read. The only unbelievable part was that Ardennes never asked Andre about a possible connection between his film and the Muse Hotel fire. That would have saved everyone a lot of aggravation!Once again, many thanks to the LibraryThing Early Reviewer program for sending this book to me.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Man ,oh man was I disappointed by this. The first few pages I was convinced it would take me two weeks to read as it as painstakingly slow. Cole was struggling to evoke, mood, setting and characters all at the same time and it was half-way through before she either got enough information to me or maybe just I stopped caring. There was something, besides the lead character’s name itself, that didn’t set well with me from the beginning, but I managed to pick out a thread or two that was interesting. In the end though, I couldn’t believe how manipulative everyone was, even for “Hollyweird” and I felt like I had just completed reading a script for the “Women in Distress” channel, one that would never get produced.
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