Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7)

by Garth Nix

The confrontation with Ozymandias had brought them together, cementing something that had long been brewing, almost without his awareness. He had always thought her more attractive than any of the film stars he knew but hadn’t thought his attraction might be reciprocated. And as it turned out, there was no Mr. Hope.

He fixed things with talk far more often than with force. But what people remembered and talked about was always the action.

George Brent.

Interesting to use a real actor's name when the "star" is imaginary.

Immediately, Celine’s face rippled unpleasantly, a subdermal shiver that extended across every part of visible skin, including her bare arm.

Is this some vampiric reaction?