GoodReads Synopsis: A former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner describes how her years inside the Playboy Mansion went from a fairytale of A-list celebrity parties to an oppressive regime of strict rules, scheduled sex, and a total loss of identity, so much so that she even contemplated suicide.
My Thoughts: Like many, I watched Girls Next Door with morbid fascination. Life inside the Playboy Mansion seemed like life on another planet. With that same curiosity, I was oddly excited to read Holly Madison's book. She seemed like a genuinely nice person on the show, even if rather dim. As you can imagine, Holly's tales of her time with Hugh Hefner are not rainbows and unicorns. Rather, she describes a tyrannical and ruthless Hef with extreme rules and expectations and a gaggle of "girlfriends" who would do anything to climb their way to the top over the others. I'm glad to read that Holly has seemed to find some normalcy for herself now and has gained some confidence. The writing is as you would expect-- cliched and clearly biased in many places. But it's a memoir of a former Playboy bunny. You're not reading it for it's beautiful prose. Three stars.
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