Jessica Woodbury's Reviews > Colored Television

A really enjoyable dark comedy with a particularly sharp satire of the perils of Hollywood. Jane is the perfect lead, someone with an actually pretty charmed life who is not content with her lot and makes a regular string of bad decisions that consistently make everything more complicated and difficult. Yes, you will want to shake her constantly, but that's part of the fun.

It takes a while to get to the television stuff, but it's a short novel and that's when it really kicks into high gear. I would love to read a bunch more books like this, that have a fully developed world and a sharp observing eye. Jane and her family feel like real people, the kids never feel like they are just there for show. As usual, Senna has a very keen eye on issues of race and the particular conundrums of being biracial.