Echo Blue, a very famous child star of the 1990s disappears right before her New Year’s Eve comeback appearance on MTV. Goldie Klein, a journalist and a self-described Echo “obsessive” thinks a story about what happened to her will be the big break she needs so she heads to LA to search and she begins to learn the truth about Echo’s parents (both Hollywood royalty, her Oscar win at 14, her issues with friends, her bad relationships and her struggles with fame. The story is told in alternating points of view between Echo and Goldie, then and now.

I mostly enjoyed this book about two very damaged women (despite some very odd sex scenes with Goldie that didn’t seem to fit the book at all). Echo’s problems are clear and obvious, but Goldie is part of Echo’s problem…she desperately wants to feel less lonely, and looks to the spirit of Echo to help her with that, which creates lots of pressure for young stars, then Goldie continued, as an adult, to look to Echo for fulfillment….st least this time she realizes it. Overall a good read. Recommended.