Courtney Hamilton is a
Velveeta-loving attorney driven to distraction by a city that seethes
with soul-sucking status seekers. When her friend Marcie formulates an
impossibly detailed rating system for acceptable men--the Los Angeles
Eco-Chain of Dating--Courtney goes on a self-destructive binge that
doesn’t stop until she gets thrown out of group therapy for insulting a
former child actress.
Courtney is mortified as she watches her best friends give up stellar careers in law and the arts to marry entertainment royalty and civilian overachievers. Worse, they expect Courtney to do the same. So they hatch plots to get her to give up her career, break her addiction to fake cheese, marry into high-orbit wealth and rule the stratosphere alongside them.
But Courtney resists. She doesn’t want to be a poster child for the Opt-Out Generation. And she certainly doesn’t want to be molded into date bait for the top rung of L.A. society. All Courtney wants is to be left alone so she can search beneath the surface for a meaningful life. But between a meddling, narcissistic mother, a self-absorbed therapist and friends trying to send her to dating re-education camps, it seems that fake cheese is the only genuine thing left in the city. Social ambition combats self-actualization in this biting tale of one woman’s search for certainty in a city full of mirages.
Courtney is mortified as she watches her best friends give up stellar careers in law and the arts to marry entertainment royalty and civilian overachievers. Worse, they expect Courtney to do the same. So they hatch plots to get her to give up her career, break her addiction to fake cheese, marry into high-orbit wealth and rule the stratosphere alongside them.
But Courtney resists. She doesn’t want to be a poster child for the Opt-Out Generation. And she certainly doesn’t want to be molded into date bait for the top rung of L.A. society. All Courtney wants is to be left alone so she can search beneath the surface for a meaningful life. But between a meddling, narcissistic mother, a self-absorbed therapist and friends trying to send her to dating re-education camps, it seems that fake cheese is the only genuine thing left in the city. Social ambition combats self-actualization in this biting tale of one woman’s search for certainty in a city full of mirages.
At first I thought it was a work of fiction and once I read the back of the book a
second time I realized that it was a memoir of Ms. Hamilton’s life. I
thought there were a few areas in the book that made me laugh, but there
were other areas that I felt aggravation and frustration at other
people in Ms. Hamilton’s life. I couldn’t
stand the author’s mom and I found most of her friends to be a tad on
the “bitchy” and self-centered side of things. I thought Courtney
Hamilton should have gotten some better friends.
I found the chapters
to be a little long, but once I got halfway through the first chapter I
didn’t really notice how long they were anymore. Overall I found this
book to be a wonderful read and I think it will give readers a glimpse
into how women try to be “Hollywood Royalty” and what they are willing to do to get there. I give Ms. Hamilton and Almost Royalty an “A.”
*I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Tiffany
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