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The book redeemed itself at the end but through the first 200+ pages I kept trying to figure out why someone didn't ask the protagonist what was so important about being a Hollywood gossip columnist. She was clinging to this job working for a horrible woman and did not seem to have any real connection to it. That was the most baffling thing for me through the whole story. If the author had provided some sort of context or back story to the main character's attachment to her job, I think it would have improved the story for me (i.e. she had hoovered gossip magazines as a child, loved the film industry, something!). As it was, I had a hard time warming to the character.

But towards the end, she seemed to have a realization.