I’m writing this review of “Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely” less than a month after finishing it and I’ve already sort of forgotten what happened in this book and how it made me feel. Not a great sign!
The book is about a young woman who is trying and failing to finish her college degree. She is forced to quickly pick a topic for her thesis and she decides to write about her aunt, a Hollywood starlet from the 60s turned nun. So she sets off to visit her aunt at the convent where she lives in order to interview her. The book jumps back and forth between that timeline and her aunt’s infamous time in the Hollywood spotlight.
I found the story to be predictable in a way that made it hard to feel invested. And darker than I want a book like this to be. While many readers whose taste aligns with mine enjoyed this book, I’m just not sure what kind of reader I’d recommend this book to.
