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Authors: Lauren Conrad
ISBN-13: 9780061767616, ISBN-10: 0061767611
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: August 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Lauren Conrad

Lauren Conrad is the star of MTV's number-one hit show, The Hills. She launched her career as a fashion designer in Spring 2008 with the debut of the Lauren Conrad Collection. Lauren has been featured on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Seventeen, and Entertainment Weekly, among others. She lives in Los Angeles. This is her first novel.

Book Synopsis

Jane Roberts was the average girl next door until she and her best friend, Scarlett Harp, landed their own hit reality show, L.A. Candy. But life on camera is getting complicated. . . .

When racy photos of Jane are leaked to the press, she becomes the center of a tabloid scandal. She turns to costar Madison Parker for help, but does Madison really have Jane's back?

Scarlett's got a scandal of her own. She's fallen for a guy who's strictly off-limits—which means Scarlett has a big secret to keep. But nothing stays secret for long in Hollywood.

In television star Lauren Conrad's dishy, entertaining novel about young Hollywood, the lies are only as sweet as the people telling them.

VOYA

Jane Roberts continues her reality television show adventures in this second of three planned books in the L.A. Candy series. This story concentrates on Jane's relationships—with friends, nonfriends, and boyfriends. She can't figure out how the local gossip magazine is supplied with rumors about her. She stays in an unhealthy relationship with bad boy Jesse, who drinks and is abusive. She's too naive, or unaware, that new "friend" Madison is the source of the rumors about her. In the end, Jane learns who her true best friend is, but she is still ambivalent about her dating judgment . . . as well she should be. She is portrayed as shallow, trusts a new friend over one she's known for most of her life, and can't see what's right in front of her. She and most of the characters project superficial values, such as hooking up after meeting someone once and underage drinking. Most of the characters are not sympathetic—they throw over friends as if they were flapjacks yet can't understand why they're not liked. Suspicion of others, whether about their professional or personal life, seems to be an overriding factor. Trite characters in trite plots, no matter how up to date they are with their texting and OMGs, are still unoriginal and not worth our caring. All this could be overlooked if the book were better written. Despite this, it will be sure to be popular with similar reality show watchers, fans of ex-Hills star Conrad, and readers who extol celebrity even if undeserved. Reviewer: Jane Van Wiemokly

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