As soon as I read the information on A Dream Called Marilyn by Mercedes King is I could tell it would be a book that pulls you right into a version of Hollywood that feels both familiar and a little unsettling. It takes Marilyn Monroe and places her into a fictional 1962 story where her life becomes even more complicated than what history already tells us. The story follows Dr. Charles Campbell, a psychiatrist hired by a Hollywood studio to help manage Marilyn. From the very beginning, he expects a difficult patient, someone unpredictable and weighed down by fame. What he does not expect is how quickly she changes the…