Teri Bailey Black

* I would give this book 3.75 stars*
I really enjoyed this read. I really loved how this book explored hollywood in the late 1930's. I also really liked the kate past was so complicated and really flesh out the world. I loved this the murder mystery that developed was not what i expected. This book had a great balance with hollywood elements and also mystery elements. I really liked this book had a strong element of found family. I also liked how this book explored the sexism and racism that was present in old hollywood. I really did liked the romance that developed and the sweet relationship that developed between kate and her grandfather. This author is high on my list to read more by in the future.… (altro)

* I would give this book 3.75 stars*
I really enjoyed this read. I really loved how this book explored hollywood in the late 1930's. I also really liked the kate past was so complicated and really flesh out the world. I loved this the murder mystery that developed was not what i expected. This book had a great balance with hollywood elements and also mystery elements. I really liked this book had a strong element of found family. I also liked how this book explored the sexism and racism that was present in old hollywood. I really did liked the romance that developed and the sweet relationship that developed between kate and her grandfather. This author is high on my list to read more by in the future.… (altro)

Chasing Starlight by Teri Bailey Black is a trip back to the glitz and glamour of Old Hollywood, with a mystery equally mesmerising. Kate Hildebrand is sent to live with her grandfather, silent film star Oliver Banks, when her aunt goes off to get married. Kate lost her parents in the tragic finale to a horrible series of events prompted by her father's criminal behaviour. But when Kate arrives to find her grandfather had no idea she was coming, and that he has a group of male boarders, she sends to her aunt to be allowed to return home. Her new step-uncle has no interest in helping her, so Kate funds herself stuck. It doesn't take long before Kate funds herself with a new, exciting job working for Falcon Pictures, and caught up in a dark mystery following one of the boarders' deaths.

I loved the writing style! Black weaves beautiful vivid description that made me feel as if I were there. This is adjacent to the Victorian period, and Prohibition, two favourite hist fic timeframes for me, and I found myself falling even more in love with the Gilded Age. I adored how no-nonsense Kate was when it came to certain things. She clearly has a problem-solving mind, giving her an edge as Tad's assistance. She was a good choice, even if the studio initially only wanted to capitalise on her name. Reading this book made me want to read the author's other work. In fact, I ordered it already!

***Many thanks to the author and publisher for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. Reviewed for JBN Book Tours.… (altro)