RaveThe Los Angeles Times\"While fascinating in its past particulars, Seduction is also a very timely book. In recent years the entertainment industry has been rocked by scandal, the #MeToo movement shattering the code of silence around the still-existing \'casting couch\' ... The book is a compulsive page-turner, written with a wisecracking style (\'[Hughes] had cooked up this cockamamie scheme...\') that also manages to be serious and thoughtful ... One look at Longworth\'s bibliography gives a sense of the scope of her research, as well as her painstaking methodology. She hasn’t just relied on memoirs and official biographies. She has also dug deep into the archives of long-defunct movie magazines, poring through gossip pages, movie scrapbooks and blind items written as the events unfolded in real time ... While Longworth treats Hughes\' mental struggles with appropriate sympathy, she never lets you forget the women whose lives were often derailed by their run-ins with him. This is a book about Hollywood and so it is a book about male power run unchecked.\
