42 Great Books With Less Than 1,000 Goodreads Reviews

Goodreads is something like a necessary evil for online booklovers. There are alternative platforms, some of which are quite good, but Goodreads has already saturated the market and we’re all sucked back in time and time again. With a platform of that size, sometimes there are truly great books that somehow slip under the radar. So, if you’re up for discovering a hidden gem – and giving an author who deserves all their flowers a boost – here are 42 great books with less than 1,000 Goodreads reviews.

Dyschronia by Jennifer Mills

Blurb: “One morning, the residents of a small coastal town somewhere in Australia wake to discover the sea has disappeared. One among them has been plagued by troubling visions of this cataclysm for years. Is she a prophet? Does she have a disorder that alters her perception of time? Or is she a gifted and compulsive liar? Oscillating between the future and the past, Dyschronia is a novel that tantalises and dazzles, as one woman’s prescient nightmares become entangled with her town’s uncertain fate.” Read my full review of Dyschronia here.

The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay

Blurb: “Bold, exhilarating, and wholly original, The Animals In That Country asks what would happen, for better or worse, if we finally understood what animals were saying. As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realizes this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals―first mammals, then birds and insects, too. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds, including Jean’s infected son, Lee. They find themselves in a stark, strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species.” Read my full review of The Animals In That Country here.

The Romantic Tragedies Of A Drama King by Harry Trevaldwyn

Blurb: “Patch Simmons has decided that this is the year he will get a boyfriend, so it’s goodbye to his French pen-pal Jean-Pierre and hello to the world! Unfortunately, the only other “out” boys in his school year are dating each other, so finding a boyfriend isn’t going to be easy… Until fate finally intervenes and two new mysterious boys join drama club: Peter, who’s just moved from New York (very chic) and his best friend, Sam. The Romantic Tragedies Of A Drama King is a heartfelt, laugh-out-loud comedy from rising star Harry Trevaldwyn, a story about boldly being yourself, going for what you want, but never losing sight of who truly has your back.” Read my full review of The Romantic Tragedies Of A Drama King here.

The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper

Blurb: “On the scorching February day in 2009, a man lit two fires in the Australian state of Victoria, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. What came to be known as the Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people and injured hundreds more. The Arsonist takes readers on the hunt for this man, and inside the puzzle of his mind. But this book is also the story of fire in the Anthropocene. The command of fire has defined and sustained us as a species, and now, as climate change normalizes devastating wildfires worldwide, we must contend with the forces of inequality, and desperate yearning for power, that can lead to such destruction.” Read my full review of The Arsonist here.

My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Blurb: “Through the voices of women around the world and her own deeply moving testimony, My Body Keeps Your Secrets tells the story of the young woman’s body in 2021. Moving from girlhood and adolescence to young womanhood, Osborne-Crowley establishes her credentials as a key feminist thinker of a new generation with this widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies in the age of social media.” Read my full review of My Body Keeps Your Secrets here.

The Other Side Of Beautiful by Kim Lock

Blurb: “Meet Mercy Blain, whose house has just burnt down. Unfortunately for Mercy, this goes beyond the disaster it would be for most people: she hasn’t been outside that house for two years. And so begins Mercy’s unwilling journey. After the chance purchase of a cult classic campervan (read tiny, old and smelly), with the company of her sausage dog, Wasabi, and a mysterious box of cremated remains, Mercy heads north from Adelaide to Darwin. Exquisite, tender and wry, The Other Side Of Beautiful is a break-out novel about facing anxiety and embracing life from an extraordinary new talent.” Read my full review of The Other Side Of Beautiful here.

Legitimate Sexpectations by Katrina Marson

Blurb: “Legitimate Sexpectations exposes the limits of the criminal justice system and the fault lines in our society when it comes to sex, sexuality, and relationships. Through storytelling that moves between heartbreak and hope, Marson makes the case for a cultural shift towards valuing sexual wellbeing and preventing sexual violence in the first place. In doing so, she calls on us all to play our part to ensure that young people’s sexual experiences are not just free from violence, but far from violent.” Read my full review of Legitimate Sexpectations here.

How To Kill Your Biggest Fan by Helen Blair

Blurb: “Bestselling romance author Hazel Witt has been writing for 20 years, has an army of loyal fans, and delivers sell-out events with every new book she writes. But Hazel hates romance, hates her readers, and is completely disillusioned with the publishing industry. Margo has spent years being obsessed with Hazel – using her books as literal bibles, taking the events in her novels as dating advice, and believing that the characters within are real. In How To Kill Your Biggest Fan, as Hazel searches for Margo, a cat and mouse back and forth ensues, with Margo seemingly one step ahead at every turn. Can Hazel escape the woman who has turned out to be a deranged stalker, desperate for love? Or does she need Margo more than Margo needs her?” Read my full review of How To Kill Your Biggest Fan here.

Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill

Blurb: “Crime fiction author Joe Penvale has won the most brutal battle of his life. Now that he has finished his intense medical treatment, he and his twin sister, Meredith, are boarding the glorious Orient Express in Paris, hoping for some much-needed rest and rejuvenation. The pair soon find themselves caught up in an Agatha Christie-esque murder investigation. Without any help from the authorities, and with the victim still not found, Joe and Meredith are asked to join a group of fellow passengers with law enforcement backgrounds to look into the mysterious disappearance of the man in Cabin 16G. But when the steward guarding the crime scene is murdered, it marks the beginning of a killing spree which leaves Five Found Dead — and one still missing.” Read my full review of Five Found Dead here.

Dear Prudence by Daniel M Lavery

Blurb: “Every week, millions of readers visit Slate for the irresistible Dear Prudence, an advice column that promises a healthy dose of reality and good humor alongside its indispensable suggestions and life lessons. The ever-hilarious and insightful Danny Lavery was one of Dear Prudence’s most beloved columnists, and he recounts his time as Prudie in this side-splitting, candid collection―complete with new commentary and exclusive stories―drawing out the broader themes of his informative, unfailingly illuminating guidance.” Read my full review of Dear Prudence here.

The Unusual Abduction Of Avery Conifer by Isla Evans

Blurb: “Beth’s daughter Cleo and Shirley’s son Daniel used to be married. Now Cleo is in gaol for supposedly contravening a family violence order, and Daniel has full-time care of their four-year-old daughter, Avery. When Shirley suspects that Daniel is harming Avery, she enlists Beth to abduct their own granddaughter, even though the two women can’t stand each other. They are joined on the run across country Victoria by Winnie, Shirley’s own 89-year-old tech-savvy mother, and Harthacnut, Beth’s miniature schnauzer. The Unusual Abduction Of Avery Conifer gives rise to crises both personal and social, as Shirley’s large and interfering family – including her toxic son – struggle to come to terms with her actions, amid a whirl of police investigation and media excitement.” Read my full review of The Unusual Abduction Of Avery Conifer here.

The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald

Blurb: “When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world. Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other. Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? And what will it take to make things right? The Cry is a dark psychological thriller with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart and characters who will keep you guessing on every page.” Read my full review of The Cry here.

The Busy Body by Kemper Donovan

Blurb: “The best ghostwriters are adept at asking questions and spinning stories… two talents, it turns out, that also come in handy for sleuths. Dorothy’s political career, meanwhile, has made her an expert at recognizing lies and double-dealing. Working together in The Busy Body, the two women are soon untangling motives and whittling down suspects, to the exasperation of local police. But this investigation—much like the election—may not unfold the way anyone expects…” Read my full review of The Busy Body here.

Changeling by Matt Wesolowski

Blurb: “On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the dark Wentshire Forest Pass, when his father, Sorrel, stopped the car to investigate a mysterious knocking sound. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995. Elusive online journalist, Scott King, whose ‘Six Stories’ podcasts have become an internet sensation, investigates the disappearance, interviewing six witnesses, including Sorrel and his ex-partner, to try to find out what really happened that fateful night. Intensely dark, deeply chilling and searingly thought provoking, Changeling is an up-to-the-minute, startling thriller, taking you to places you will never, ever forget.” Read my full review of Changeling here.

The Speechwriter by Martin McKenzie-Murray

Blurb: “Toby, former speechwriter to the PM, has reached a new low: locked behind bars in a high-security prison, with sentient PlayStations storming the city outside, and the worst of Australia’s criminals forcing him to ghost-write letters to their loved ones or have his spine repurposed as a coat-rack. How did he get here? From the vantage point of his prison cell, Toby pens his memoir, trying to piece together how he fell so far, all the while fielding the uninvited literary opinions of his murderous cellmate, Gary. What Toby unspools in The Speechwriter is a tale of twisted bureaucracy, public servants gone rogue, and the ever-present pervasive stench of rotting prawns (don’t ask).” Read my full review of The Speechwriter here.

Character Limit by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

Blurb: “This is the story of the showdown between Elon Musk and Twitter and how the richest man on earth suddenly came to control one of the most powerful media platforms in the world. In Character Limit, award-winning reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac draw on exclusive interviews, unreported documents and internal Twitter recordings to provide a revelatory, three-dimensional, and definitive account of what really happened when Musk showed up to takeover Twitter, spoiling for a brawl and intent on revolution, with his merciless, sycophantic cadre of lawyers, investors, and bankers.” Read my full review of Character Limit here.

Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn

Blurb: “A grizzly bear goes on the run after eating a teenager. A hotel room participates in an unlikely conception. A genetically altered platypus colony puts on an art show. A sabretooth tiger falls for the new addition to his theme park. An airline seat laments its last useful day. A Shakespearean monkey test pilot launches into space. The stories in Here Be Leviathans take us from the storm drains under Las Vegas to the Alaskan wilderness; the rainforests of Queensland to the Chilean coastline.” Read my full review of Here Be Leviathans here.

To The River by Vikki Wakefield

Blurb: “The Kelly family has always been trouble. When a fire in a remote caravan community kills nine people, including 17-year-old Sabine Kelly’s mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody and disappears. Recently made redundant from marriage, motherhood and her career, journalist Rachel Weirdermann has long suspected Sabine made her way back to the river-now, twelve years after the ‘Caravan Murders’, she has the time and the tenacity to corner a fugitive and land the story of the year. To The River is about class, corruption, love, loyalty, and the vindication of truth and justice. And a brave dog called Blue.” Read my full review of To The River here.

Pain And Prejudice by Gabrielle Jackson

Blurb: “In Pain And Prejudice, acclaimed investigative reporter Gabrielle Jackson takes readers behind the scenes of doctor’s offices, pharmaceutical companies, and research labs to show that—at nearly every level of healthcare—men’s health claims are treated as default, whereas women’s are often viewed as a-typical, exaggerated, and even completely fabricated. The impacts of this bias? Women are losing time, money, and their lives trying to navigate a healthcare system designed for men.” Read my full review of Pain And Prejudice here.

Becky by Sarah May

Blurb: “It’s peak 90s London. Shoulder pads are out, crimped hair is in, supermodels are known by their first names, and Becky Sharp will do anything to escape her past. From mingling with tabloid millionaires to trading favours and fortunes with royalty, she will stop at nothing to reach the top of the career ladder at the Mercury newspaper. Landing scoop after scoop, Becky ruthlessly carves a place for herself in a society determined to ignore her. These are the biggest stories and scandals of the decade, and she has something to do with every one of them.” Read my full review of Becky here.

The Visitors by Jane Harrison

Blurb: “On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stand looking out to sea. Moored off-shore is a huge nowee (boat) then there are two, then more. Who are these visitors? Where are they from? What do they want? Should they be turned away by force or welcomed to country? In The Visitors, Jane Harrison reimagines the arrival of the First Fleet from a First Nations’ perspective. These senior men, carrying the weight of cultural responsibility in their very human hearts, must decide what action they’ll take toward these unwanted arrivals. A decision, under pressure, that will have repercussions’ unforeseeably and forever.” Read my full review of The Visitors here.

Odd Hours by Ania Bas

Blurb: “Odd Hours is a whip-smart social comedy for those of us who feel that life is a game where someone else has stolen the rules. Meet Gosia Golab: about to turn 30, she works shifts as a cashier in a well-lit budget supermarket and lives in a badly lit Zone 3 flat share. She spends her precious spare time trying to be an online poet if only to avoid her prying flatmate Lyndsay and the endless crossfire between her Irish mother and Polish father. The only promising man in her life is a guy who appears to prefer her check-out to the others, but does this thing have legs, or is it all in her head?” Read my full review of Odd Hours here.

Search History by Amy Taylor

Blurb: “After Ana flees to Melbourne in the wake of a breakup, all she has to show for herself is an unfulfilling job and one particularly questionable dating app experience. Then she meets Evan: the old-fashioned way, at a bar. Charming, kind, and responsible, Evan is a complete deviation from her usual type. Ana tries to let their relationship unfold IRL, but she can’t resist the urge to find him online. When she discovers that his previous girlfriend died in a hit-and-run, Ana begins to worry that she’s living in the shadow of his lost love. The more Ana learns about Evan’s past, the more questions she has: Was his last relationship as perfect as it looks online? And why won’t he talk about it? Perceptive and original, full of both pathos and humor, Search History explores the uncertainties of twenty-first-century romance.” Read my full review of Search History here.

Naked Ambition by Robert Gott

Blurb: “Up-and-coming junior minister Gregory Buchanan has had a portrait painted of himself by the acclaimed artist Sophie White―a painting she intends to enter in this year’s Archibald Prize. Until then, Gregory has hung it in pride of place on his dining-room wall. It’s a life-sized standing portrait, practically photographic in nature. And it’s a nude. His wife will be home soon and he thinks the painting will be a pleasant surprise. Even more surprising will be an unexpected accumulation of guests: his sardonic mother, his fundamentalist mother-in-law, his lesbian sister, and the state governor, Louisa Wetherly―a senior government member has just resigned in scandalous circumstances, and she needs Gregory to step into the spotlight ahead of the coming election. It’s going to be a wild afternoon, and an even wilder campaign―to do something about Gregory’s Naked Ambition.” Read my full review of Naked Ambition here.

Her Fidelity by Katharine Pollock

Blurb: “How do you move forward when you’re stuck in a groove? And what happens when you realise that you’ve been working so hard to be part of the boys’ club that you never stopped to wonder if you should be creating a club of your own? Her Fidelity is a feminist coming-of-age story for anyone who has ever felt that a song understood them more than their own family, for anyone who has ever felt like the culture they love might not love them back, and for anyone who has ever turned to Stevie Nicks for advice while ignoring the sensible people around them.” Read my full review of Her Fidelity here.

A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay

Blurb: “When his toxic medical director dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. Nobody else does, though, including some quite crucial players like the police and the medical examiner. So Eitan vows to uncover the truth himself. But Eitan’s own past and reputation are far from spotless, despite his budding relationship with Cole, a handsome hospital porter, and reluctant camaraderie with his office mate, Margaret-with-the-cats. As his colleagues become increasingly concerned about his mental health, Eitan’s investigation spirals out of control. Could a killer really be stalking the wards? Or is Eitan making a catastrophic mistake? A Particularly Nasty Case is filled with acerbic wit, lovable characters, and plenty of twists.” Read my full review of A Particularly Nasty Case here.

Throat by Ellen Van Neerven

Blurb: “Throat is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh author Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language, land, van Neerven flexes their muscles and shines a light on Australia’ s unreconciled past and precarious present with humour and heart. Unsparing in its interrogation of colonial impulse, this book is fiercely loyal to voicing our truth and telling the stories that make us who we are.” Read my full review of Throat here.

One Of Those Mothers by Megan Nicol Reed

Blurb: “In One Of Those Mothers, when a local father is convicted of the possession and distribution of child pornography, the tight-knit, middle-class community of Point Heed is quick to unravel. The man is granted permanent name suppression, and soon friend turns on friend, neighbor delivers up neighbor, and hysteria rapidly engulfs the town. Who among them was capable of such moral trespass?” Read my full review of One Of Those Mothers here.

Larrimah by Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson

Blurb: “Larrimah: hot, barren, a speck of dust in the centre of the nothingness of outback Australia. Where you might find a death adder in the bar and a spider or ten in the toaster. A town at the centre of one of the biggest mysteries outback Australia has ever seen – a weird, swirling whodunnit about camel pies and wild donkeys and drug deals and crocodiles, a case that’s had police scratching their heads for years, while journalists and filmmakers and Hollywood turn up, from time to time, to ask what the hell happened here.” Read my full review of Larrimah here.

Going Dark by Julia Ebner

Blurb: “By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside. But two years ago, she began to feel she was only seeing half the picture; she needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. She decided to go undercover in her spare hours – late nights, holidays, weekends – adopting five different identities, and joining a dozen extremist groups from across the ideological spectrum. In Going Dark, Ebner takes the reader on a deeply compulsive journey into the darkest recesses of extremist thinking, exposing how closely we are surrounded by their fanatical ideology every day, the changing nature and practice of these groups, and what is being done to counter them.” Read my full review of Going Dark here.

The Helpline by Katherine Collette

Blurb: “Germaine Johnson likes suduko, biscuits, maths and Chinese food. She’s less sure about the complexities of social interaction and her tendency to just say what she thinks often lands her in hot water. Unfortunately, after ‘the incident’ at Wallace Insurance, she finds herself unemployed. When her cousin suggests a job at the local council, manning The Helpline for local senior citizens, Germaine really doesn’t have any other option than to say yes. It’s still social interaction, but at a safe distance. However, it turns out Mayor Verity Bainbridge has something more interesting in mind for her.” Read my full review of The Helpline here.

Rabbits For Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum

Blurb: “It’s New Year’s Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum’s protagonist—an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer—fully unravels. Propelled by razor-sharp comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of—or into—the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief.” Read my full review of Rabbits For Food here.

My Mess Is A Bit Of A Life by Georgia Pritchett

Blurb: “Soul-baring yet lighthearted, poignant yet written with a healthy dose of self-deprecation, My Mess Is a Bit of a Life is a tour through the carnival funhouse of Georgia’s life, from her anxiety-ridden early childhood where disaster loomed around every corner (When I was little I used to think that sheep were clouds that had fallen to earth. On cloudy days I used to worry that I would be squashed by a sheep), through the challenges of breaking into an industry dominated by male writers, to the exquisite terror (and incomparable joy) of raising children.” Read my full review of My Mess Is A Bit Of A Life here.

Murder In Mississippi by John Safran

Blurb: “A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South race crimes. But then new revelations and complications came to light. Maybe it was a dispute over money rather than race—or, maybe and intriguingly, over sex. Murder In Mississippi is a brilliant, haunting, hilarious, unsettling story about race, money, sex, and power in the modern American South from an outsider’s point of view.” Read my full review of Murder In Mississippi here.

I Saw A Man by Owen Sheers

Blurb: “When journalist Caroline Marshall dies while on assignment in Pakistan, her grief-stricken husband, Michael, leaves their cottage in Wales and returns to London. He quickly develops a friendship with his neighbors, Josh and Samantha Nelson, and their two young daughters. Michael’s becoming close with the family marks the beginning of a long healing process. But Michael’s period of recovery comes to an abrupt end when a terrible accident brings the burden of a shattering secret into his life. I Saw A Man is an utterly stunning novel of love, loss, the insidious nature of secrets, and the transformative power of words.” Read my full review of I Saw A Man here.

Appreciation by Liam Pieper

Blurb: “Everything in this world has a price. A great work of art is no exception. And what fortune was ever built without a little subterfuge? Outrageous satire of the highest order, Appreciation sets its sights on the question of authenticity in a time where image trumps talent, narcissism rules, and no canvas is so tarnished it can’t be painted over.” Read my full review of Appreciation here.

Go Lightly by Brydie Lee-Kennedy

Blurb: “Ada is a seeker, a perpetually moving ball of excess. A twenty-six-year-old Australian living in London, she ekes out a living as a cabaret performer and part-time temp. When Ada falls for Sadie and Stuart at the same time, she sees no reason not to pursue them both. But as the responsibilities of adult life begin to encroach—bills, family, more bills—and Sadie and Stuart find out about one another, the people around Ada increasingly insist it’s time for her to settle down. Can she resist the inevitable? Effortlessly hilarious and painfully relatable, Go Lightly is a love letter to girls who are the life of the party; girls who say yes without fear.” Read my full review of Go Lightly here.

Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

Blurb: “Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world spews. But now her Pop is dying and she’s an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley for one last visit. Surrounded by the ghosts of their Elders and the memories of their ancestors, in Too Much Lip the Salters are driven by the deep need to make peace with their past while scrabbling to make sense of their present.” Read my full review of Too Much Lip here.

Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan

Blurb: “Kate Delaney has made the biggest mistake of her life. She picked the wrong guy to humiliate on a girls’ night out and now she is living every woman’s worst nightmare. As a journalist who is haunted by the crimes she’s had to report over her career, Kate is terrifyingly familiar with the statistics about women who go missing—and the fear and trauma behind the headlines. Kate can only hope the police will find her before it’s too late, but she’s aware a random crime is hardest to solve. As the clock ticks down in Pheasants Nest, she tries to keep herself sane by thinking about her beloved boyfriend and friends, escaping into memories of love and happy times together. She knows she cannot give way to despair.” Read my full review of Pheasants Nest here.

Sadvertising by Ennis Ćehić

Blurb: “In the mind-bendingly upside-down world of Sadvertising, iPhones have feelings, brands come to life, creative directors disappear into parallel universes and lowly freelancers become immortal. It’s a world where gods, ghosts and muses stalk the corridors of bland and placeless offices, and the wondrous exists alongside the mundane. Short, punchy and direct, Ennis Cehic’s satirical fables are box-fresh and shot through with pitch-black humour, existential dread and late capitalist yearning for meaning.” Read my full review of Sadvertising here.

The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project by Lenore Appelhans

Blurb: “Riley lives in TropeTown, where everyone plays stock roles in novels, and he is sent to group therapy after going off-script. Riley knows that breaking the rules again could get him terminated, yet he feels there must be more to life than recycling the same clichés for readers’ entertainment. In The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project, he meets Zelda, a Manic Pixie Dream Girl (Geek Chic subtype), and falls head over heels in love. Zelda’s in therapy too, along with several other Manic Pixies. But TropeTown has a dark secret, and if Riley and his fellow Manic Pixies don’t get to the bottom of it, they may all be terminated.” Read my full review of The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project here.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

Blurb: “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows Lorelei and her best friend, Dorothy, from Hollywood to Manhattan to Paris and London, pursued by eager suitors all the while. In ‘the Central of Europe,’ with a new diamond tiara in her handbag, Lorelei meets a traveling American millionaire who just might be the one.” Read my full review of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes here.