Glass Houses

By Ciaran Llachlan Leavitt and TurtleMe

Two actresses fight the system and each other when the director of their career making film dies in the middle of production. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930928238
• ISBN13: 9781930928237
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Renaissance Alliance Pub Inc
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Read the book, now see the movie

I thoroughly enjoyed this book about the growing relationship and attraction between Director and Star while making a movie based a real novel, Melissa Good's "Tropical Storm". The relationship between Jae (director) and Reed (star) builds slowly and nicely echoes the relationship of the characters in "Tropical Storm". While I don't think that you must read "TS" before reading this novel I strongly suggest that you do as it will immeasurably add to your enjoyment and understanding of "Glass Houses", and "TS" is a good book on its own merit. I am a sucker for romance, particularly in the so called "uber" genre and this one does deliver. Just curl up on a comfy sofa with a big bowl of popcorn and enjoy.

Nicely done

The love story has a very slow buildup, but the seeds are planted deep right at the outset, so there are lots of emotional facets to the evolving relationship, and each has its own poignancy. The writing is agile, allowing Jae and Reed to emerge in 3-D, physically and emotionally.

Xena/Gab analogues cut loose, take on life in here-and-now

This very sweet story really stays with us after its conclusion. Gay director and straight lead actress doing a film version of "Tropical Storm," become emotionally entangled as their story shadows (without duplicating) that of the film's fictional characters. Llachlan has fun with the intertextual stuff, while effectively exorcizing the anachronistic Xena/Gabrielle flashbacks that intrude in the Dar/Kerry story. The love story has a very slow buildup, but the seeds are planted deep right at the outset, so there are lots of emotional facets to the evolving relationship, and each has its own poignancy. The writing is agile, allowing Jae and Reed to emerge in 3-D, physically and emotionally.

HOLLYWOOD TOLD LIKE NEVER BEFORE

If you like the writing style of Melissa Good then you will love this book. The two main characters are well defined early in the story so you are not floundering around wondering what the plot of the story deals with. Anyone who remembers what it's like to acknowledge ones homosexuality or knows someone just coming out, then this is a must read. Ciaran weaves every emotion imaginable throughout the book, but in such a pleasant way that you are left with a giddy feeling at the end of it. Actress Reed Lewis is the queen of denial when trying to explain to herself why she is drawn to director Jae Cavanaugh. The situations that each of them put themselves in just to see eachother is hilarious. Whether it's scaling the side of a house or having a kissing contest you will laugh aloud. You can't help but cheer for them to come together. One can only hope that there might be a seguel in the making with this duo.