Review: ShutterGirl (The Hollywood Project, #1) by C.D. Reiss

ShutterGirl by C.D. Reiss
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book…

it’s one of those that will stay with me for a very long time and I will be reading it again and again!!!

Before I go into why this story touched me in the way it did..let me begin to say that the writing spoke to me…poetic, expressive, inspiring, emotional, lyrical, moving..I could go on forever – absolutely beautiful!

From the very beginning, I knew I was going to go on an amazing journey…

Shuttergirl had so much going for me, most of all the two main characters…a Hollywood golden boy of movies and a paparazzi – the most unlikely people to find their HEA together!!!

I adored Laine Cartwright….her character pulled all my heartstrings…

Despite the knocks in her life, she retained a strength and grit beyond imagination

“I own this city. And like mother and daughter locked together, the ownership is reciprocal. I’ve been nurtured in her arms, brought to adulthood as if pulled by the roots of my hair, sung to sleep with a lullaby of car alarms and freeway traffic.”

– without losing her humanity……

“I got into my shoes with anticipation and laced them up with hope.”

And who could resist Michael Greydon!

What an incredible and endearing man, living in the plastic and false Hollywood world!!

My life had been written at birth, a list of opportunities read out loud to the world. Beginning, middle and end. I had found security in that room to make decisions, yet the safety of limits. Laine had come and folded the paper, creasing my expectations in high school with her life story. Now, with her breath on my shoulder, she folded my life into an airplane and shot it out the window.”

The 3rd main character was the city of Los Angeles. The vivid imagery makes it so real that I felt I was actually living in it.

I loved that Laine & Michael were given a second chance to finding each other and being able to help each other overcome their demons – even when both thought it would be impossible to have a HEA…..

He was stunning, and irresistible, and a one-way ticket to nowheresville.”

“She was a vortex. I’d avoided getting swallowed up in her once, and now, more than ever, I needed to avoid it again.”

Unique story, unique characters…………What are you waiting for?????? READ THIS BOOK


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