Book Review: Elaborate Lives
Elaborate Lives is a Contemporary Romance in the vein of Christina Lauren and Ali Hazelwood where a film director forced into therapy to manage his ‘people problems’ proposes a fake relationship with his therapist so they can both have the lives they want. Larisa de France-Kahn is the daughter of a model and a famous film producer born to host formal dinners an adorn the arm of a powerful man, but she’s determined to thwart her fate by graduating from her psychiatry residency and practicing emergency medicine as an anonymous citizen if only her mother will stop sending her on blind dates with billionaires who would like to make Larisa their trophy wife. The separation between Larisa's celebrity and professional lives is threatened when a producer friend of her father sends one of his directors to Larisa for counseling. Quinn VanderVeer might be the greatest filmmaker of his generation, but he’s so insecure he’s turned everyone against hi...