Eva Marie L. (babyjulie) -
I still have a few pages to go but I doubt anything will happen that would change my feelings so, since I have the time, the review is happening now. As of today, this is the last book by [author:Wendy Williams|119952] that I had left to read. (I'm hoping she comes out with a tell-all/memoir sometime in the next few years.)
As I mentioned in my review for [book:Drama Is Her Middle Name|208971], I read this series out of order. In fact, this book, the third (last?) is the only book I read as supposed to. I switched the first two books when I read [book:Is the Bitch Dead, Or What?|205244] years ago and then finally read Drama yesterday. And now Hollywood.
The Ritz Harper books are fun, fast, and light. I suppose they'd make the perfect beach read/poolside read for a lot of women. Hollywood is just as fun and fast as the first two books in the Ritz Harper series. In a lot of ways it's also as light. In some ways it's not so light.
Wendy has always walked a fine line with the race issue IMO in these books. The first two books were nothing out of the ordinary in that aspect. This book, however, was totally different in terms of race. There is a lot of "nigger", "honky", "monkey", "white motherfucker", etc. Pretty much any derogatory remark you can think of. I think she probably had to so a sizable amount of research to come up with so many racial slurs.
There is even one character with a "slave-girl fetish". This man is put in his place by Ritz. The reason the rating I'm giving isn't going down is because, even though I do feel the whole race issue wasn't needed here, for the most part she managed to do something with it. Strong feelings were stirred within me so I'm sure the same can be said for other women, black or white. Maybe especially for black women.
I still have to say that I don't think it was necessary and I think she could have went an entirely different route but I do appreciate that the race aspect wasn't used in a pathetic way.
As I mentioned in my review for [book:Drama Is Her Middle Name|208971], I read this series out of order. In fact, this book, the third (last?) is the only book I read as supposed to. I switched the first two books when I read [book:Is the Bitch Dead, Or What?|205244] years ago and then finally read Drama yesterday. And now Hollywood.
The Ritz Harper books are fun, fast, and light. I suppose they'd make the perfect beach read/poolside read for a lot of women. Hollywood is just as fun and fast as the first two books in the Ritz Harper series. In a lot of ways it's also as light. In some ways it's not so light.
Wendy has always walked a fine line with the race issue IMO in these books. The first two books were nothing out of the ordinary in that aspect. This book, however, was totally different in terms of race. There is a lot of "nigger", "honky", "monkey", "white motherfucker", etc. Pretty much any derogatory remark you can think of. I think she probably had to so a sizable amount of research to come up with so many racial slurs.
There is even one character with a "slave-girl fetish". This man is put in his place by Ritz. The reason the rating I'm giving isn't going down is because, even though I do feel the whole race issue wasn't needed here, for the most part she managed to do something with it. Strong feelings were stirred within me so I'm sure the same can be said for other women, black or white. Maybe especially for black women.
I still have to say that I don't think it was necessary and I think she could have went an entirely different route but I do appreciate that the race aspect wasn't used in a pathetic way.
