Official Review: My Friend Marilyn by Christopher Lentz

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Re: Official Review: My Friend Marilyn by Christopher Lentz

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I like how direct your writing style is. It seems to me that you value brevity over verbosity. Your description of the story's premise is captivating. Overall, your review provided me insights about the book that help me in determining if I'll read the book or not.
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Although the book seems to be well-received, this is not something I would like to read. However, weaving a fictional tale based on actual events deserves applause. Thanks for the awesome review.
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82 chapters and it had a quick ending?! Now I am really curious. This sound really interesting, I do have quite a fascination with Marilyn Monroe. I like that it’s written with a female lead who is not Marilyn, but I would also like to to find out how it would be like to have actually worked for her.
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This sounds like a very well-written historical fiction (the book has an impeccable structure with the details of the location at the beginning of each chapter) which covers the story of the happenings around a shoot of Marilyn Monroe. Thank you for the review!
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