Gloss Summer Scandal is the sequel to Gloss by Marilyn Kaye. It continues the story of four women called Sherry, Donna, Allison and Pamela.

They all met when they where interns at Gloss magazine. It is set in the 1960s, in New York and switches from each girl's point of view following their story.

Sherry still works at Gloss and for her first article she is righting about civil rights. She then becomes more involved than just writing her article, and realizes that being from the south means that she is not as welcome as she once thought.

Alison is dating the star Bobby Dale who (as his singing career is going down hill) is filming his first film. She has to deal with his co star Beverly, who constantly flirts with Bobby making Alison think that Bobby doesn't want to be with Alison anymore. Donna also works at gloss as a photographer's assistant. After being married in an abusive relationship, she wants to be single for a while. When she meets Jack (after being forced to go to a club with Bonnie, a model, for work) who she is really interested in, but she feels unsure about having a relationship.

As Jack is from a rich family she feels like her background isn't good enough, so she pretends she is from Sherry's family to make her seem less poor.
I enjoyed this book however I didn't read the first one beforehand, as I did not realize it was a sequel. Even so, it was quite easy to pick up and was quite enjoyable.

It wasn't good enough to make me want to go out and buy the first one so I would give it 3.5 out of 5.

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