It's good to pick up a refreshing read after my last encounter with a disappointing book, and this book is exactly the former.

Price of Admission is about Jasmine Green, the daughter of a well-known movie producer Marvin Green and how a screenplay she wrote about her life (with a few changing of names) was almost turned into the next hit movie. It starts with the present with Jasmine's point of view, with her going to Austin's funeral and meeting the characters one by one. And when the big announcement hits, the next chapter is one scene from Jasmine's screenplay. It's even written in that format, and even though I've seen a similar novel like this before (Susan Juby's Alice series) I knew the book was off to a good start.

I liked the easy flow of the novel. It's not written in baby-language but it's not too sophisticated that it wouldn't have suited the character of Jasmine. From the very beginning, I got the sense that Jasmine wouldn't change that much throughout the story, and I was kind of right. I understand that the main point is that she'll face her fears and confess, but it kind of drags out and makes the character development less noticeable. She's constantly complaining and feeling guilty, and though that's supposed to be realistic, I just didn't think it was necessary.

On the other hand, the screenplay the author incorporated was a big thumbs up. Most authors like to give a brief summary of what happened in the past, but Leslie Margolis took it a step forward and actually went back to what happened, giving dialogue and everything that made readers imagine exactly what happened and how it happened. That's much more interesting than reading, say: Last year, I walked in on my boyfriend, and found out he was cheating on me with a girl whom he'd met at the bar. You can also find a bit of humor here and there as well.

The thing about the storyline that stood out to me was the character of Jasmine. While every other author likes to write about the fabulous life of the rich and famous (like Zoey Dean, Cecily von Ziegesar, etc.) this author didn't use the clichéd twist. Jasmine might be rich, her father might be well-known, but there's tweaks here and there that makes it more relatable. Like the stepmothers. She's on her eighth stepmother, and she finds out that Jett (her brother) and Ginger (Step-mom 8) are cheating behind her father's back. Disgusting, yes. A twist, yup.