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In this YA series, Brooklyn Brant is a celebrity news blogger dying to have her big break. Her blog, Deadline Diaries, features the clickbait hook-ups, break-ups, and screw-ups of the Hollywood glitterati, but she has yet to nab the one juicy scoop that will establish her as the ultimate insider.
Actress Taylor Prince is America's sweetheart—beautiful, talented, successful, and sober. With a Golden Globe win, Oscar nom, clothing and fragrance line, and too many magazine covers to count, Taylor is ready to celebrate her sixteenth birthday with a big poolside bash. However, she is not prepared for a police raid and blacking out in the arms of a dangerously handsome stranger.
Brooklyn is called by Taylor's assistant to locate the missing starlet under the radar and on a very tight deadline. And she will need both her sleuthing and journalistic skills to solve the mystery and get the story of a lifetime.
In this suspenseful, dual narrative thriller alternating between the perspectives of Brooklyn and Taylor, author Ken Baker uses his in-depth experience with celebrity journalism and behind-the-scenes truths to explore the ugly underbelly of Hollywood's obsession with finding the ever elusive fountain of youth.
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"Sources are to a news-breaking blogger what water is to a plant: Everything but the sun."
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Ken Baker is an E! News Correspondent. He is the author of How I Got Skinny, Famous, and Fell Madly in Love and Fangirl, and his memoir, Man Made: A Memoir of My Body, is the inspiration for the film The Late Bloomer. He lives (and writes) with his family in Hermosa Beach, CA.
Gr 8 Up—Gossip Girl goes Hollywood in Baker's first in a planned series. Brooklyn Brant spends her days investigating and writing for her blog, "Deadline Diaries." Taylor Prince, America's sweetheart, is turning 16 and just wants a party with no paparazzi or problems. But things take a turn for the grim when she's abducted from her bash and wakes up bald and branded, under the care of strange doctors who say she's in rehab. As Taylor struggles to stay sane under their dubious care, Brooklyn searches for the truth about what really happened to Taylor. This series opener rings hollow. The writing is full of brand-name dropping and clichéd, one-dimensional characters. Neither Brooklyn nor Taylor feel fully fleshed out, and traits assigned to them (Brooklyn's religion and obsessive compulsive disorder, Taylor's straight-edge leanings) feel tacked on. The story reads like a 1980s made-for-TV movie or a Lois Duncan knock-off; readers seeking mystery and a little bit of danger with an empowered female protagonist would be better served with a Nancy Drew novel. Neither Taylor nor Brooklyn go through any significant character growth or actualization, and Taylor in particular spends the entire novel victimized and passive. For readers who are big fans of E! Hollywood News, this might be an easy beach read, but with a plethora of quality YA out there to choose from, most teens will have trouble finding something worth engaging with here. VERDICT Not recommended for primary purchase.—Clair Segal, LREI, New York City
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- PublisherRunning Press Kids
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0762455942
- ISBN 13 9780762455942
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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