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Jada Eastman thinks she has seen it all. As a biography writer for the big Hollywood stars, she’s no longer looking at them through rose-colored glasses. The stars are all the same. Disillusioned folk who stumbled into the limelight and then turned to a life of drugs, alcohol, and sex in order to try to fill a void in their life. And when that didn’t work, they turn to a variety of different religions, none of which seemed to fill the void either.
When Jack Harrington and his wife, Grace Winslowe contact Jada, she is intrigued in spite of herself. After all, Jada has loved Jack forever. She hopes he won’t shatter her dreams about what he is like in person. Jada walks into their beautiful home, prepared to hate Grace, after all, Grace has married the man Jada loves.
But soon it becomes apparent that Jack and Grace are nothing like what Jada thought they would be like. Yes, they tote religion. But instead of the empty lifestyle other actors have found, theirs seems to bring true peace—something that Jada can’t quite understand.
Nevertheless, Jack’s and Grace’s lives are anything but rosy. Jack has made some decisions in his career that changed more than his day. They changed his life. And now he is facing the aftermast of decisions made long ago. Decisions that threaten his very life. Will Jack’s story help Jada find the Lord before she makes the same mistakes?
WORLDS COLLIDE is written, in a interview style. Jada’s point of view is in italics while Grace and Jack each tell their story in the first person, each of them allowing the other to tell the story as they see it. It is well written and interesting, and at first I couldn’t decide if this was actually a true story or not. It easily could be—because the Hollywood lifestyle behind the scenes is carefully researched and is written very true to life. I came to care deeply for Jack and Grace and Jada as I read through the story.
WORLDS COLLIDE is a wonderful story if you are someone who wonders what life in Hollywood is like. It pulls no punches as it describes the free-sex, the drugs, the alcohol, the emptiness as the actors struggle to find a balance between who they pretend to be on the stage and who they are in real life. I recommend WORLDS COLLIDE for an interesting read.
Reviewed by Laura V. Hilton
for The Road to Romance
September 22, 2005
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