Haven't been reading much...

With my busy Olympics-watching schedule (four hours a night, minimum), I;ve had precious little time for reading. However, I took some time to read two incredibly campy and low-budget books by Nancy Krulik: The First Cut and Sneaking Around. These are the first two books in the "No secrets: the story of a girl band" series. Here's what amused me:
1) The characters, who all had very melodramatic stories (Hannah's mom is a maid! Melanie's friend dates a gang member! Cass has an eating disorder!)
2) The publishers have so little faith in the readers' imaginations that they have a photo insert. With action shots of imaginery people! The photo insert is in the middle of the book, which means that in every book,
3) The captions to the photos (which are, let me stress, in the middle of the book) give away the endings of the books. Krulik is a good plotter who can build tension, but the book designer (not Krulik, I hope and assume), made the books so much lamer because of the photo inserts.
I ended up only reading the first two, and skimming the others.