LitPick Review
Leigh is a normal teenage girl, planning to be a veterinarian, who enjoys instant messaging her best friend. Well, almost normal. Her mom, Annika Andersen, is a B movie star who named Leigh after some weird old actress who starred in "Gone with the Wind", and now she's committing to having Leigh spend a few weeks with her on a movie set in Ireland. Despite her anger at being forced to go, Leigh is eventually resigned, and actually begins to enjoy her stay when she gets a minor role in her mom's new picture and falls for a cute Irish actor. Leigh experiences many adventures during her stay in Ireland and ultimately comes to a better understanding with her mother.
Opinion:
Though it was very humorous, "Introducing Vivien Leigh Reid: Daughter of the Diva" was very disappointing because of the overall lack of principle and insertion of homosexual characters. Few of the characters showed any evidence of morality, usually spending their time hurting each other whenever possible. The relationship between Leigh and her mother Annika is an example: Leigh and Annika do their best to verbally stab at each other, and their spiteful relationship puts a damper on the whole book. The book was frustrating, because it had excellent characterization, style, and plot, but the lack of principle and verbal backstabbing made what could have been an outstanding teen novel into something distasteful.
