Customer Reviews

Celebutantes

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

If you've read "The Devil Wears Prada," "Bergdorf Blonds," "The Nanny Diaries," "The Second Assistant," or any book of that kind then you've essentially read this book, only it was probably better because those books I actually finished. I love a good beach read book, but this is so badly written that I had to keep telling myself "just read five more pages and see." On page 56 a drugged-out, aging British rock star starts shaving her bikini area using a disposable razor and a cup of Diet Coke . . . what the??? The final paragraph on that page literally starts with the words "Could it get any worse than this?". . . this is where I decided that I really didn't care to find out.

I bought this book at Target one night after work knowing that I would be calling in sick to work the next day (I really am sick). Two weeks ago I visited LA for the first time & had read "You'll Never Nanny in this Town Again," on the plane ride back to the midwest. THAT was a great read after getting a brief glimpse into the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle. I was hoping Celebutantes would be an easy, fun read too, but, although I'm an avid reader(just finished City of Thieves), unfortunately I'm at page 55 & am deciding this in not the page-turner I was hoping for, & for some reason the characters are confusing to me. I'm not sure if these girls really have Hollywood ties or have made all these scenarios up, and unfortunately I don't care even though I was in the mood for this type of book. I've never read the Nanny Diaries but I'm thinking it will at lest be a better written, light, frivolous read....
Note to the writers: an index about your characters would be helpful. You mix so many real actors with names I've never heard of & I have no idea if they're real people or not, or who they're supposed to be. Perhaps your California friends get it but I don't live there so I'm confused, & I'm sure many non-Californians who try to read your book are too!

I typically enjoy the fun, glitzy, witty chick-lit, but this book was unbearable and painful to get through. So many times I wanted to just STOP reading it altogether. It just didn't do anything for me. The characters were boring and unrelatable. The name dropping was silly... I would rather read a copy of Us Weekly.

Listening to the audiobook was truly a guilty pleasure. I would have been very embarrassed to turn it on in the car if my other passenger wasn't a very understanding Labrador, but I loved, loved, loved it! It made the time fly by and was read aloud so skillfully that I just went and bought the sequel!

This book wasn't as entertaining as I was hoping it to be. Lola was more annoying than amusing. She needed to grow a backbone, quit whining, and get a real life/job. If L.A. celebs really act anything like the characters in this book I'm glad I live nowhere near Hollywood.

What --- a --- dumb --- book! I can't believe this thing even got published. It's just ridiculous. The only funny thing about it is that I finished it. I can only laugh at myself for thinking it would, in any way, redeem itself.

A house guest left it here (on page 30) and said she didn't even want it back. Now I see why.

I cannot believe there will be a sequel. This is NO "Nanny Diary" or any other the other like-books.

Oh - and for the record, Universal City is not the valley. ugh.

This book was mildly entertaining for someone who is obsessed with LA culture and movie stars. The constant celebrity name dropping was exhausting.

This is one of the worst books I have ever read. It's stupid, vapid, a waste of time, and not funny or clever. It's a dumbed down version of SATC. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY.

even as a throwaway type of beach read, this book doesn't quite work. it has aspirations that are way too high for the talent of the writers and rather than playing off of their strengths (their intimate knowledge of the high society entertainment world and the type of people who inhabit it), they try to make too many social critiques of their peers. the result is a book that is uneven and unsure, with characters who are not quite relatable on any level (either as a guilty pleasure train wreck or a person with whom you can actually imagine inhabiting your world).

there are parts of it that offer some voyeuristic fun but on the whole this novel does not deliver. i put it as much on the editor as the writers though. that person should have worked this into a more clear sighted story.

Lola comes from a very famous family, her father a hot-shot director, her brother a sought after music producer. She, however, at twenty-five is still trying to find her niche, something that will make her famous in her own right, not just a daughter of.

She has tried many careers, after graduating from high school she went to art school for a year and created some interesting pieces, but she just couldn't stay committed to it. She also tried fashion design, but was not able to come up with anything superb enough to warrant a full fledged career. Part of the trouble is partly because she has an addiction, one that not many know about, but to her can be just as devastating as any illegal substance. Lola is an Actorholic. This means that every boyfriend she has had to the present has been an actor, all of which having broken her heart into a trillion pieces, but she just can't get enough!

He longest and most devastating was with SMITH (read it and you will figure out why there is a need for caps) a veritable nobody whom, (thanks to the leading lady having to go to rehab) she did a movie with and consequently fell for. Everything with them was great until the reviews came out and brutally ripped apart Lola's performance, after which he breaks up with her because who in there right mind would want to be seen as such a failure? What a loser he is.

After some pretty literal soul searching she decides to make one last valiant effort in the working world by becoming a PR person for her BAF (best gay forever) Julian and try and get a few high ranking celebs to wear some dresses he has designed to get his name out there come Oscar night. Coming from a famous family, however, does not guarantee success, as she runs into one problem after another. Never has Hollywood seemed like such a zoo!

I enjoyed this book, Lola is funny and accident prone and you can't help but root for her throughout the book. This title is a definite pick up, though panned by some other reviewers it has potential and is the perfect partner for your towel in that beach bag!