Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely

I gobbled this up over the course of a weekend and promptly handed it over to my mother, knowing that she will love it too! Fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo will absolutely gobble this up. Told in dual timelines (alternating between the late sixties and the nineties), it is the story of the glamorous Hollywood starlet Lori Lovely. At the height of her career (at just twenty-three-years-old!), she decided to leave it all behind and become a Benedictine nun. What happened!? Why would she do this? Meanwhile, it’s the early nineties and Lori’s niece Lu Tibbott is working on her senior thesis. She decides to dig into the true-life mystery of her aunt and heads to Lori’s convent in rural New England. Mother Lori tells Lu that she’s finally ready to talk (and share the story of a lifetime). And wow, the story is a good one. We start in New York, where Lori is determined to make it as a dancer. She heads to London for schooling, and via a chance encounter ends up being chosen to play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (opposite dreamboat Lucas Wesley). Romeo and Juliet catapults her into stardom (and a romance with Wesley). But Hollywood life is more tumultuous than Lori could have ever expected. That’s all I will say. I really enjoyed this one!