The Brutal Illusion

What I loved most about this story,and there is much to love was Jared's style. He knows the genre of pulp fiction well. He skillfully tells the story of an ingenue in old Hollywood, an aspiring actress who is both in the right place and the wrong place at the same time. The characters she meets in her pursuit of fame could've come off as caricatures in the hands of a less skilled author, but that's not the case here. Though we recognize certain types, Jared breathes life into each one, so that the scenes he paints come alive in the reader's mind. I also appreciated that he didn't mince words and moved his story well. He kept my interest throughout, and gave me an ending I didn't expect.