Margaret was a perfectly nice girl - and the character I really got to know the best throughout the first 100 pages - but I never got interested in her story and didn’t find myself behind her or rooting for her to have all of her dreams fulfilled.

The characters didn’t come together for me either.

Instead of really getting into it, I had a hard time placing myself in that time period. I really thought this was going to be such an interesting time period to read about and I was really hoping to get swept away with all of the glamor of Hollywood, but I just never made that connection. STARSTRUCK is set in the golden age of Hollywood (think Singin’ in the Rain - after the transition from silent films to “the talkies”, where movies stars are THE legends). I made it about 100 pages into the book and just didn’t find myself connecting with any of the characters or the setting. In the case of STARSTRUCK, it really wasn’t that I felt like the book was awful or unbearable. Set in Old Hollywood, Starstruck follows the lives of three teen girls as they live, love, and claw their way to the top in a world where being a star is all that matters.ĭespite my frustrations with picking up a book and deciding not to finish, I actually really like writing DNF reviews for a very specific reason - There’s always a different reason I’ve chosen not to finish. Find it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads Date Completed: Ap(Marked as DNF)Ī new series set in the golden age of glam.

Starstruck by rachel shukert