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My Bookish Life Book Review: Tell-All

      Hello everybody! I hope you all are having a good Christmas! I had a great one myself! The kiddo has went to bed and things are winding down so I thought I would try to post a book review tonight!


Title: Tell-All
Author : Chuck Palahniuk 
Genre : Fiction
Pages: It was an audio book
Rating : 1 star

Synopsis: 

Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette’s syndrome of rat-tat-tat  name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless  send-up of Lillian Hellman’s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.

Our Thelma Ritter–ish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine “Miss Kathie”  Kenton—veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie’s death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman–penned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans—and for posterity. 


My thoughts on the book:  It might be partially because I'm still getting used to listening to books on audio but I didn't like this one at all. If you want to introduce somebody to Chuck Palahniuk for the first time I would pick a different book. I normally like Chuck but this one just didn't  draw me in.

          I'll be honest there are parts of this book that I can't even remember because the story just didn't draw me in. I hate to say that because in general I'm a fan of Chuck Palahniuk.  I didn't feel that there was any character development or plot development in this book except for the one big surprise at the end that kinda comes out of nowhere. I just did not like this one at all it fell very very flat for me! That's why I'm giving the book 1 star!

         That's it for now! I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas all of us for sure deserved it this year! I'm about half way through Filthy Rich : The Billionaires Sex Scandal by James Patterson so I will have a review up for it shortly! If you have read Tell-All please leave your thoughts in the comments. Also if you happen to like my content please follow my blog ! That's it for now I will talk to you all later! Merry Christmas!

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