The Hollywood Sisters: On Location -- Mary Wilcox

I loved the first installment in the Hollywood Sisters series, so I was happy to pick up the second.  (Perfect timing, too -- I really needed a shiny pink book yesterday.)

This time, the cast of Two Sisters (and, of course, Jessica) are -- go figure -- On Location.  They go from Los Angeles to Mexico, from Mexico to Wisconsin.

We've entered into the Formula Fiction zone -- another saboteur, more romantic misunderstandings, another Special Guest Star Disaster, more characters you'll recognize from the gossip pages.  (Paige's mother is CLEARLY Dina Lohan, which I thought was especially hilarious.) 

Formulaic nature aside, it's still an entertaining sequel.  Jessica is still a likable, down-to-earth heroine -- and her narration still brings the laughs:

And poetry--those stacks of little sentences stand by you in tough times.  This is exactly the kind of poetry you need to read as a broken heart:

LOVE - what is love?
A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands; and silence;
and a long despair.
Life - what is life?
Upon a moorland bare
To see love coming and see love depart.

--R.L. Stevenson

See?  Don't you feel worse already?

I've brought a book of poetry for the plane and my summer reading, To Kill a Mockingbird.  That title packs as much sad as a whole poem, I say.

I'll continue handing this series to Clique fans, in the hopes that they'll take to it.  As I said about Backstage Pass, like the Clique, it's mostly clean, it's got the money, the brand names (not as many, thankfully) and the in-fighting, but it's witty and it's not bitchy or gross.  Hooray!