Three Girls and Their Brother

Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck

About:They are the granddaughters of a famous literary critic, but that's not what makes them the new "It" girls. It's because they are flawlessly beautiful, and to top it all off they have stunning red hair. But mom and dad are two bad parents that aren't prepared to defend their children from the piranhas and sharks of the show business. The four siblings learn that despite their differences, wants, jealousies, and needs - all they have in the brutal world of being famous is each other.

Opinion: Some of the minor (and more important) characters in this book are unbelievable. Unbelievably stupid. Seriously, I wanted to throw myself into the story and shake some sense into them. The story had a very common "celebrity" situation: three beautiful girls and their rather more plain brother have crappy parents and are almost literally eaten alive by people who want to use them for their own selfish desires in the fashion industry. This aspect of the story I found a bit more reasonable and believable: The siblings must learn how to deal with some of the stupidest (yet most powerful) people in America while still getting themselves upped in the show biz. This is a fairly good book that goes through all four of the siblings' points of view. As the story progressed I began to think that "Man they are all really starting to sound the same..." but I realized that it wasn't that they sounded the same or that they all had the same personalities because those were all fairly distinctive, but it was that they were starting to actually become siblings that weren't just using each other. They were falling in love with each other (in one of the strangest and possibly most painful ways), and they were learning what family was and what it really meant. On a side note I really liked the two different covers so I'm putting up both.

Rating: 3 and 1/2