Trouble in Tinseltown
(Summer Flings #1)
by Aimee Duffy

Kindle Edition
Published August 7th 2014 by HarperImpulse





Goodreads synopsis:
Part 1 of Summer Flings – a fun, flirty and laugh out loud rom com series of short stories.

Armed with a degree from Oxford that she doesn’t have a clue what to do with, Ciara Bree convinces her two best friends, Elle and Gem to spend their first summer of freedom backpacking across the globe. Now it’s time to shop, sunbathe, think about boys for a change, and party hard…

First stop: LA!

The girls hit Tinseltown for a few days of shopping, star spotting, and even a movie premiere!

But their plan to sneak into an exclusive celeb party in West Hollywood backfires. Elle’s gorgeous older cousin, Zack, is called to the rescue and despite knowing she should stay away, Ciara just can’t seem to resist him.

The ideal summer treat for those relaxing days soaking up the sun!


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3 Stars

This is the first book in the Summer Fling series by Aimee Duffy.

This book was barely 50 pages and I think it is hard to judge a book with so few pages.

Ciara and her friends are on vacation in LA and just want to have fun. They end up meeting Zack there, Ella’s cousin and Ciara falls for him. So hard that when they get into trouble and land in jail, he is their first call.

There just wasn’t enough here to judge adequately. Sometimes the motivations seemed all off. The romantic scene at the end felt forced and didn’t flow naturally from the previous scene. It just seemed to come out of nowhere.

Not my favorite story but it had a ton of possibilities. I wish it had been fleshed out more.

I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in return for an honest review. I thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this title.