Twenty-eight-year-old Lucilla comes from a famous acting family and the one thing she has wanted most in life is to become a popular actress. Since she resembles her late, famous actress mother Cressida, people assume Lucilla also inherited Cressida’s great acting talent. Lucilla has believed this for years, even though she has been told numerous times she really has no acting talent. Lucilla just assumes they are jealous and are lying to her. One day she meets Nick Barrington (35) who tells her she is wasting her life away trying to be an actress. He thinks she would make a very good agent. She has the connections in the acting world, knows people, and is intelligent. At first Lucilla ignores him, but the more she thinks about it, the more she believes what he says.

I really liked Nick. He was handsome, charming, caring, and thoughtful. And he was obviously crazy about Lucilla. It took a bit longer for me to warm up to Lucilla. At first she wasn’t likable at all. Lucilla was in the previous, connected book “Some Sort of Spell” (by Frances Roding aka Penny Jordan) and she was pretty bad in that one. Selfish, rude, unkind to that heroine (Beatrice)… But her character started to improve a bit halfway through this book and we got to find out some reasons why she acted the way she did.

I liked how both Nick and Lucilla had a lot in common. They both came from prestigious acting families, they both thought they could be actors, and they both found out they had no acting talent. They also had selfish and uncaring parents.

Lucilla and Nick had good chemistry. I enjoyed catching up with Beatrice and Elliott from the previous book “Some Sort of Spell”.

A wonderful and highly enjoyable read. ( )

I've had this book for two years, and I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to read it. You see, Lucilla, the heroine in this book was the villainous half-sister of the protagonists in Some Sort of Spell. She was awful in that book and I couldn't see how it was possible for Lucilla to get her own story. But I've been proven wrong and loving it! Lucilla is actually very insecure and vulnerable. She needed someone to be her champion to guide her away from her parents' shadow to finally be herself. What better person than Nick, who understand the pressures and expectations when one comes from a famous acting family. ( )