what Remains Of Me

 

Shirley J.         Adult Fiction                 Celebrities, Questionable Paternity, Pedophile, Murder

What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin   512 pages

This book deals with the behind the glam lives that are affected by the Hollywood lifestyle.  Celebrities and famous directors, and celebrity stunt folk create a very sordid bunch in this book filled with misdoings, mistrust leading to lives of broken celebrity children self-soothing with drugs, alcohol and fast expensive sportscars.   This is definetly not a feel good book.   Every character is fighting a legion of their own demons.    It is a good book if terribly sad, since, no one has a happy life, every character has skeletons they are hiding no one seems to tell anyone the truth and two murders occur and the time lines constantly jump back and forth so at times it is like, huh?   But for some reason the book does hold your interest maybe because you keep hope alive that someone will eventually come out of this o.k.   It is pretty harsh - what is said and also what is implied.    While younger kids need to know what can happen and not to trust everyone just because they say they are your friend or trying to help you, this book has such heavy drug use I am inclined to recommend it to mature teens on up or even adults.  There are many takeaways from this story.  It is sort of a Valley of the Dolls for the minor set, but...