Light reading but enjoyable

Unrealistically perfect lead character and actress. This book about a soap opera is a soap opera. Very few, if any, of the characters were more than one dimensional.

I'm a Coulter fan! But this was a huge fail. So hard to be interested in any of the story lines. I was supremely disappointed. :'(((

If Coulter wasn't such a good thriller writer, she might not have been able to pull this campy book off. Started out confusing to me with the changes in locations and in characters. I love to giggle when I read and I did it in this book. I loved soaps when I was young (I'm 74 now). Nearest and dearest to my heart is ATWT. For those who know John Dixon, notorious dr. He's my fave. That soap's storyline on his colon cancer was provocative, but informative and consequently made me go to my doctor at age 49 (below the age suggested for those particular cancers) and discovered my tumor. Life is just strange. This book was so cute, funny, heart-tugging, and enjoyable, it was necessary to go to the end. Good soap opera.

So very funny - cute, romantic, a bit of suspense... and laugh out loud moments, too.

Mary Lisa Beverly is an Emmy-winning soap opera star and loving her life until someone tries to kill her. While the police investigate, she heads home to Goddard Bay. Her family life there is almost like a soap opera with the dysfunctional members of her own family. Police Chief Jack Wolf finds out about the danger she is in and follows her back to Malibu to help keep her safe. However, he is called back to Goddard Bay to deal with a murder in his town. The two story lines keep this story moving and the attraction too.

Nice twist and real life mirroring "tv" ish!
Nice love story and always good to have girl pals!!

Strong women rock

Too many characters, difficult to keep track of everyone.

not a fan of Catherine Coulter

a little silly, but for its genre a 4-star fun read.

Born to Be Wild by Catherine Coulter
This is a book about a soap opera star and is probable classified as a romance. I’m being up front here, I use avoid any book that has a male on the cover with a shirt open to his waste throwing a scantily attired female over his brawny shoulder. I just don’t read them. Well the cover didn’t have any of that and I got sucked into reading this, in spite of it being a romance. It is a romance with a thin layer of mystery over it. Mary Lisa is a successful soap opera star who is being stalked. Jack Wolf, who in spite of his name is not in show business, is the chief of police where she grew up. His past experience with a nasty ex-wife and a felony type prank by Mary Lisa tends to make them adversaries.
I enjoyed the book, sad to say, really, but I did enjoy it. There was enough characterization, mystery and plot to make it entertaining. I STILL don’t read romances.

While I wasn't overly impressed with this book, I would be lying if I said it was a BAD read. I actually enjoyed it - it was a nice, light read. I got this book from a co-worker of mine, so it was a decent hand-me-down. I love getting hand-me-downs, especially books because I have read/found a few great books this way. I kept it at work so I always had something to read during lunches and breaks, and it was a great way to keep myself amused.

The plot is fairly entertaining, with this soap-opera star who has to deal with a stalker/would-be assassin which has a surprise ending, though the more serious plot happens around her family and a family tragedy that has happened to their friends. There's several surprise twists in this book, and while some might have felt it cheesy (I did find the romance part to be cliched), I genuinely enjoyed this book and would recommend it as a light and fun read. Overall 3.5/5 stars.