So 5 Minutes Ago, Hilary de Vries
So 5 Minutes Ago, Hilary de Vries
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So 5 Minutes Ago
a novel

Author: Hilary de Vries

Narrator: Laura Hamilton

Abridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/25/2025


Synopsis

Alex Davidson is a thirtysomething celebrity publicist for a down-at-heels Los Angeles PR firm known for taking on clients whose careers have crashed and burned. A professional hand-holder and spinmeister, she’s one notch above a nanny on the Hollywood food chain. L.A. is already losing its luster in Alex’s eyes when her firm is bought out by the hottest agency in town. Will it mean massive layoffs or a chance at a big promotion?
In between signing a new client (a once-hot-now-not actor just out of rehab) and wondering if one of the partners is putting the moves on her, Alex grows wary of her new boss, a shark-like exec who’s forcing out Alex’s old boss under suspicious circumstances. Is there anything she can do to save her and her boss’s jobs, and maybe right some wrongs against women in Hollywood along the way?
Packed with razor-sharp humor and featuring a winning protagonist, So 5 Minutes Ago will satisfy even the most hard-to-pleaser celebriholics who long to find out what goes on after a star steps off the red carpet.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Theresa

I wondered why this book was rated only at a 3 mostly. I feel like the last half of the book got tired of its own plot. It's a super fun read with snark and cynicism, but it lacks heart.......more

Goodreads review by Carrie

An insider view of Hollywood and doing what is right in the end.......more

Goodreads review by Lance

Note: This review was originally written in the early 2000s and published for a no longer running website: AudiobookCafe. This review is focused on both the book and audiobook. Grab your cell phone, bottled water, planner and join Alex as she battles the press to protect the image of her client, bat......more

Goodreads review by Nina

If I previously thought that chick lit will always be the best go-to book for a light read, then I am now going to change that opinion. This book was too negative and whiny and I could not get through each chapter without thinking that I would love to strangle the main character Alex if I were given......more

Goodreads review by Ken

This is one of those “girl-from-back-East-goes-to-Hollywood-and-makes-good” type of novels that I adore so much. I mean, come on... what are the chances that a middle-aged gay man from North Carolina would ever get to move to Hollywood and work with movie stars on a daily basis ? Answer that questio......more