I really want to like Emma Straub novels, but I've had no luck with #2. It starts out really good, but right where I thought there was going to be some interesting drama--when the titular character hits stardom--there really wasn't much. Laura is such a passive character, rarely making leaps and instead letting it all happen to her though there were marks of ambition early on.

Molly Ringwald narrates...and she was... ok.