5/20/2023 0 Comments Valley of the dolls paperbackSasau was a total badass who was raised without a complex range of emotion so she's cool headed and practical under extreme pressure. Like Valley of the Dolls, the more interesting relationship is the one between the women of the book. Yargo himself and the shallow chemistry Janet perceives between the two of them is really just tacked on towards the end and it feels uncomfortably forced. The thin nightie cover and subtitle "A love story" is fairly misleading to the real direction and content of the story which is more of a chick version of Enemy Mine (1985) where a simple human and an alien have to overcome their differences to survive. That's a hell of a self esteem nightmare! She is thrown from a mediocre, streamlined existence into a supernatural situation where she is even more dramatically the odd one out and is literally put on trial to prove her worth. Janet's character, while simple minded and immature, is very relatable and easy to empathize with as she is stuck in a sort of quarter life crisis brought on by rigid societal expectations of women and an unsupportive network of loved ones. However, I found it just as engaging and hard to put down as her more renowned bestseller. Obviously this is a very different kind of story than Valley of the Dolls and was written with a pulpy sci-fi tone that is more fun and fluffy than her dark adult portraits of glamour and romance.
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