Lily herself is curvy and beautiful, and has a voice that matches her typecasting as much as her body does – high pitched and breathy. Lily is also an actress who has been typecast by a role on an evening soap as a home wrecking, seductive, selfish, dimwitted idiot. He cheated on his wife with Lily’s mother, and Lily was the result of their affair. Lily Lamprey is the somewhat infamous daughter of a British politician. So many of the things I loved in Act Like It are present in this novel – the dramatic (literally) world they live in, the challenges of managing their public lives and private lives, and the crackling sharp dialogue.Īre you kidding? Have you read the reviews here? Of course more detail! LOTS more detail! And whenever the two of them talk to each other, it’s the best part of the book. The obstacles standing in the way of the hero and heroine are genuine and of different levels of influence at varying times. HECK YES there is a “But.” Lucy Parker’s dialogue is top-notch, and the London theatre world is still a terrific place to set contemporary romance.

The hero and heroine are tremendous, but the obstacles for the characters are not as seamlessly integrated into the story, and there are secondary characters in this book whose portrayals are inconsistent from chapter to chapter.

Obvious questions first! Is Pretty Face as good as Act Like It?Īlas, no, I don’t think it is.

Pretty face by lucy parker