STARS SHINE AFTER
DARK is set in modern day Los Angeles, California. Readers will enjoy touring the places
the stars go inside the pages of this book.
Mona Poole was a
famous child actress. Now twenty years old, she wants to go to college and do the things
that normal people do. She’s not sure what career she wants to go into, just that she
wants to be normal. But life can’t be normal for Mona. Instantly recognized, the
paparazzi follow her around campus. When her parents announce they are buying a Winnebago
and traveling around the country, Mona feels alone and abandoned by those she loves and
trusts most.
Timothy Scott is a
senior and star quarterback. Majoring in football, his dreams are to go pro and when the
day comes that he has to retire from football, he’ll coach. He has no minor, no other
plans for life. Seeing Mona in the stands during a home game, Tim decides he has to meet
her. A mutual friend introduces them, and from that day on Tim and Mona is inseparable.
Even though Mona
claims Tim is only her friend, it doesn’t stop her from accepting when Tim proposes.
Only two months later, Tim and Mona are married in a ceremony hidden from the media. But
is wedded bliss all that it’s cut out to be? Will Mona be content to follow Tim
wherever he’s drafted? Or will Tim be the one to give up his dreams?
STARS SHINE AFTER
DARK is a unique story. I don’t think I’ve read anything quite like it before.
There were a lot of punctuation errors in the download I read, but they might have been
corrected in the print version.
Most of the story
is written after Mona and Tim are married, there is very little of their actual courtship
in the book, and the book tends to skip around, telling something very important to the
story and then skipping ahead three years down the road and telling what happened in
back-story.
I would have
actually preferred her to tell the story as it happened, not long after the fact.
There are some
exciting moments in STARS SHINE AFTER DARK. There are also some mild after-married sex
scenes. If you are interested in what the life of movie stars is like, or want to know
more about football, especially during Autumn’s football frenzy, this is the book for
you. Pick it up today at www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com. $14.95 paperback.
Reviewed by Laura
V. Hilton for The Road to Romance
October 22, 2003 |
