Author(s): Rachel Shukert
Genre: Historical YA
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Publisher: Delacorte Press
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From Goodreads
Every week they arrive in Los Angeles-- beautiful and talented young hopefuls hwo dream of becoming stars. Itt's all Margaret Frobisher has ever wanted- and when she's discovered by a powerful agent, she can barely believe her luck. She's more than ready to escape her snobby private school and conservative Pasadena family for a chance to light up the silver screen.
The competition is fierce at Olympus Studios and Margaret- now Margo- is chasing her Hollywood dreams alongside girls like Gabby Preston, who at 16 is already a grizzled show-biz veteran caught between the studio and the ravenous ambition of her mother, and sultry Amanda Farraday, who seems to have it all-- ambition, glamour... and dirty secrets. Missing from the pack is Diana Chesterfield, the beautiful actress who mysteriously disappeared, and there are whispers about Diana's boyfriend- Margo's new co- star- may have had something to do with it. Margo quickly learns that fame comes with a price, and that nothing is what it seems.
My Thoughts: I was pleasantly surprised with this book, it was everything I wanted it to be, but presented to me in a way that I didn't know it would. You get the glamour, your get the secrets, you get what yo want from the Hollywood side of things. The makeup, the smoke and mirrors, everything is there. But you also get this through mostly likable characters. (I didn't like the american sweetheart, Sorry Gabby!). I swooned over the boys and dreamed of being Margo, and this just fed into that part of me that loves the movie award season. I may be rereading this come that time next year.
There was some twists that I was not expecting but I loved them. They were not outlandish in any way as some novels can have. There was a great realism to this novel as well, grounded in the history of what was the Hollywood of the past and what can and still is being done today. The characters were real people in the Hollywood machine, so you felt for them.
Without a doubt, if you have not read it yet go get it and Read It!
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