This was my first book by Sarah Morgan, and I really enjoyed it. I received it through netgalley.

It had some great things going for it that really held my attention. It's not a particularly long book, although the length is, in my opinion, absolutely perfect for the story.

What I really liked about this one:

- The writing is great. Nicely descriptive, not too many words, not too few, grammar and spelling is good (I know, I know, I'm being a bit anal here, but I hate it when spelling and grammar are sloppy). There are some lines which were just hands-down hilarious.

- The London setting to start with just seems spot on. The author doesn't particularly go into details about precise locations, but London feels exactly as it does when you live there (bad traffic, ridiculous property-prices which force you to live in less-than-nice areas on a normal salary, and a completely celebrity-obsessed population)

- The hero and heroine are, well, great. I really, really liked them both. In some ways, they are an attraction-of-opposites couple, but it is very credible, and works. They felt remarkably real to me - I could see facets of friends and family in them. I liked that the heroine has her insecurities about her body (to be honest, you wouldn't catch me in a bikini either), but I LOVED that the hero (a) doesn't understand why she's insecure since (b) he just thinks she's completely hot and sexy. And kinda related to that, I've always wandered why the media and celebrity-culture seems to project images of stick-thin women as sexy, when plenty of men (yes, even those with a lot of money) find women with "padding" (taken from one of my favorite lines in this book) absolutely ravishing.

- The whole superstar-meets-nobody plot is really, really well done. Of course, this is the whole premise of the book, so it should be well-done, but even so, you can see this really happening. It's not naff like superstar-bumps-into-girl-carrying-coffee-and-falls-in-love, or nobody-saves-life-of-superstar-and-they-live-HEA. No, having the heroine work backstage in the theater, and have the kind of personality she does, works incredibly well. Also, I LOVED how the heroine is star-struck, but is also faintly repulsed by the realities of trying to get to know the person underneath all the celebrity. It is incredibly realistic to me. I also loved that the heroine has her connections to the world of the famous - after all, lots of ordinary people have famous family members.

- The bit in Rio with the kids was actually OK for me. Very often when you have the heroine as some do-gooder type helping disadvantaged kids, it's just completely icky-sweet, and a complete turn-off. This time it actually worked OK.

What I didn't like quite so much:

- While tragic, the whole thing with the person in the audience (I don't want to give anything away here) didn't really work for me, beyond the amazing first few chapters. I haven't read any of the other books in this series (and you don't need to in order to enjoy this one), but when it was finally revealed, I just felt it wasn't really up to the quality of the rest of the plot

- The whole bit where they take off overseas doesn't really do much for me. Now, it was OK, but I really loved the bits where they have to hide around in the heroine's flat in London, and it would have been intriguing to have had a bit more of that and less of the jet-setting stuff.

So, I'm really undecided whether to give this a 3 stars "liked it", or a 4 stars "I really liked it". I think I'll go with 3 stars, but I did definitely enjoy it.