Confessions of a Wild Child Author: Visit Amazon's Jackie Collins Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1250050936 | Format: PDF
Confessions of a Wild Child Description
From Booklist
The unstoppable, best-selling Collins delves into the fifteenth and sixteenth years of her signature character, Lucky Santangelo. Not as out of control as today’s rebellious teens, Lucky fights for independence and the training she needs to be part of her father’s Las Vegas hotel business, to no avail. Instead, this saga tracks Lucky through a number of exclusive boarding schools where she manages to make wild-child friends with other rich, spoiled young women. All of them spend their time picking up boys, not quite going all the way (with some exceptions), and avoiding the wrath of their absentee, overindulgent parents. Lucky crushes on her father’s right-hand man, Marco, while worrying about her younger brother, Dario, and trying desperately to gain the attention of her father, Gino the Ram. As her name implies, she’s incredibly lucky, even though her life is not a bed of roses. Unfortunately, this superficial look at Lucky’s past doesn’t really get to the heart of why the character turns into the beloved woman found in Collins’ superpopular novels, from Chances (1981) to Goddess of Vengeance (2011).HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: No matter what, Collins sells, so this prequel to her popular Lucky Santangelo novels launches with a hefty print run and coast-to-coast print, radio, television, and online promotion. --Pat Henshaw
About the Author
JACKIE COLLINS is the author of twenty-nine New York Times bestselling novels. More than 500 million of her books have sold in more than forty countries. From Hollywood Wives to Lady Boss, from Chances to Poor Little Bitch Girl, Jackie Collins has chronicled the lives of the rich and famous with "devastating accuracy" (Los Angeles Times). She lives in Beverly Hills.
See all Editorial Reviews
- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (February 4, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1250050936
- ISBN-13: 978-1250050939
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
It has been years since I have read anything by Jackie Collins but I have fond memories of the early books that featured Lucky Santangelo. I think I was maybe eleven when I discovered Chances and was immediately enthralled by the glitz, violence and sex, a heady combination for a young suburban girl half a world away from Las Vegas. Lucky was wild, powerful and rich and I vaguely remember thinking I wanted to be just like her when I grew up. So, when I was offered the chance to read and review Confessions of a Wild Child: Lucky-The Early Years I simply could not resist.
This book begins as Lucky, just shy of fifteen years old, is sent to an exclusive girl's boarding school with her father, Gino, intent on making his daughter into a lady in preparation for marriage and motherhood. But boarding school gives Lucky an education neither she nor her father expected,
Confessions is written from Lucky's first person, present tense perspective. It reads as if a teenager wrote it with simple language and breathy dramatic asides "No more little Miss Innocent.". It didn't really work for me, the experience is not unlike reading your own teenage diary twenty years or more after the fact, without the rosy glow of nostalgia.
If you have read Chances or Lucky there won't be any surprises in this book, Lucky's youthful antics have already been covered there. The plot is shallow with the focus on Lucky discovering the power she wields with her burgeoning sexuality, on her terms. There is plenty of sex, though little that is actually explicit. Lucky is all about 'Almost', though friends Liz and Olympia aren't so discerning. The story ends on the eve of sixteen year old Lucky's marriage - you'll have to read Chances to find out what happens next.
Confessions of a Wild Child Preview
Link
Please Wait...