My Own Personal Soap Opera by Libby Malin

Lust for Life, that is the name of the drama ridden soap operal that Frankie works as a head writer for in Libby Martin's My Own Personal Soap Opera. We all know that soap operas are know for their crazy antics, high drama, insane deaths and demon possessions (yes I used to watch Days of Our Lives until the Marlena demon possession). So take all the goofball drama and then times that by 10 in Lust for Life, a soap that Frankie is desperately trying to save from being cancelled. Not just that, but Frankie has more personal drama going on, a love triangle, which could have been written out of the pages of her own soap, a flight and non-existent secretary who is worthless if you ask me, and her ex has just been published. She is a little jealous and freaked because she holds a great big resemblance to one of the characters..... hum. There is Victor who is older and now working on the soap with Frankie, and then there is Bruce who is hot dashing, oh and much younger star. What is a girl to do? I have to say there were some really fun moments in the book for me and some frustrating ones. Fun and quirky, and a little mystery to boot which I found a little silly and far fetched, but when taking it all in kind of fits into a Soap Opera itself.

Is life stranger than fiction, or vice versa?

Frankie McNally has found the perfect solution for life’s perplexing problems: as head writer for the daytime soap Lust for Life, she works them out on the air!

Meanwhile, Frankie’s being courted simultaneously by the dashing older man sent in to save the show’s sagging ratings and by the soap’s totally hot leading man. And just when Frankie thinks the plot couldn’t get more complicated, a jewel thief starts copying the show’s storyline-a development that could send the show’s ratings soaring, if it doesn’t get Frankie arrested first...

In her signature blending of the hilarious with the poignant, Libby Malin’s latest light-hearted novel combines the best of life and of fiction into an entertaining and incredibly satisfying read

Product ISBN: 9781402229428

Publication Date: April 2010