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Book Review

Back In Black: An A-List Novel, #5
By Zoey Dean
Little Brown & Company, 2005

The A-lister’s are back and having a more exciting time than ever. When they go to Las Vegas for their senior trip things start to come unraveled and secretes come unveiled, when they go the hypistist too the stars and reveal some of there darkest secrets.

My personal favorite part of this novel has to be when; Parker picks up the rich, but ditzy southern girl. He wants her money and nothing more and it turns out he can act. Some of the parts make no sense at first like Cammie going off for a mysterious visit with an old friend, you think she’s cheating on Adam, but her thoughts tell you other wise.

This novel has an interesting plot line that keeps you wondering at every turn. It leaves you wanting a bit more depth and less Hollywood. Like for example Anna the smart gorgeous brainy girl, thinks about guy the whole time she in Vegas and you start to wonder if that’s all there is too her. Some things in the beginning seem thrown in for no reason, and could be a little smoother, but they do come together at the end. Like Dee, she’s strangely out of place in the glittery, commercial world of Vegas and you start to wonder what her purpose in the story is.

All in all this novel has a good plot line but it is kind of mixed up in the beginning, though it becomes untangled as the story unfolds. I would not recommend this novel to any one who wanted to get away from the superficial and earn greater depths by reading it. I would recommend it to some one who was looking to get away from their life and into a world of glamour, lies, secretes and half-told truths. So in the end I very much enjoyed this book, but it is not for everyone.


Reviewed by Terri G from BC, Canada