THREE PRINCESS SERIES

Cinema chronicles the love lives of a trio of princesses.

In the first story in this collection, readers are introduced to Serena, the beautiful daughter of the king and queen of Albania. Serena is an avid sports fan and plans to major in journalism; when she falls in love with a player for the Anaheim Angels baseball team, their relationship causes problems for the royal family back home. The second princess is Amy, the daughter the Duke of Granwich, an oil magnate who’s 20th in line to the throne of England. When Amy visits California on a business trip, she falls in love with a nerdy librarian, also setting up potential family troubles back home. Lastly, the author introduces Olympic swimmer (nicknamed “Princess of the Water”) and model Lorelai Rosenberg, who’s engaged to marry one man but steadily falling in love with another. Cinema unfolds these three stories in parallel narratives, fleshing them out with ample supporting casts. The bare bones of a compelling story can be detected in these pages, but readers will need to overcome a number of obstacles to reach it. The author’s decision to format his text without sentence or paragraph breaks—the book is essentially one incredibly long paragraph—makes the novel virtually unreadable. The text itself is thickly littered with spelling and grammatical errors: “I think you too much too drink,” one character says; “You were looking for your keys, but it was in the apartment...” “I wouldn’t wear somebody underwear for no reason,” one character tells another, getting this response: “Why is a beautiful, rich and a girl who is way out of your league be interested in a guy like me.” A thorough, professional edit (and a top-to-bottom reformatting) is required here before the story’s characters or action can be productively addressed.

An impenetrable story about women in love.