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Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

THE IMMACULATE COMPLEXION

The Immaculate Complexion, May 2007
by Edie Bloom

Making It
Featuring: Marnie Mann
336 pages
ISBN: 0843958561
EAN: 9780843958560
Paperback
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"Another chick-lit clone of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA."

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THE IMMACULATE COMPLEXION
Edie Bloom

Reviewed by Meghan Fryett
Posted April 6, 2007

Contemporary Chick Lit

Marnie Mann was looking for a change β€” any kind of change β€” since her career in the film industry officially tanked. Temping for the high-profile makeup company LeVigne seems like her ticket out of debt and promises a new and interesting career filled with sparkle and shine. (Or is sparkle and shine out this season? It's so easy to forget!) With all the latest and greatest wrinkle reducers and lasting lip glosses at her fingertips, Marnie soon gets swept up in the superficiality of Park Avenue Princess life.

Marnie's life seems to be improving in all directions; her persistent eczema is clearing up, her love life seems to be getting over its dry spell and she's starting to get taken seriously at work. However, it all quickly turns awry as she sinks lower and lower into the frivolity of LeVigne's tenets. Everything about her life has become vacuous and shallow. Is this the person Marnie really wants to be?

THE IMMACULATE COMPLEXION reads as stilted and superficial as the plot line Edie Bloom has written. With dragging dialogue and an anti-climatic narrative, this is one THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA clone that merits a pass.

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SUMMARY

In a world of Park Avenue princesses and Botox babes, Marnie Mann stands out like last year's lip color. If one more person at her new job for Lavigne Cosmetics suggests a laser treatment for her age spots (hello--they're freckles!) or an injection for her furrowed brow (does no one in this office think?), she's going to scream. But even her organic-loving self can't resist the seductive pull of working in the big-name beauty biz. That pull drags her into a high-concept product launch gone spectacularly awry, tainted samples, and a murder by makeup in which every manicured finger points straight to her. It's going to take a lot more than wrinkle cream to smooth out this mess.

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