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Mendle brings the fun teen novel to new highs. It's a compelling read, pulls the audience along, but doesn't pander. An easy, but intelligent read, and an insightful take on teen angst.


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Better Off Famous? Jane Mendle Books Reviews

This is the second book I have read by Jane Mendle and, as with her first book (Kissing in Technicolor), Better Off Famous is a wonderful and enjoyable read. Jane's writing is witty and smart. Annie is the girl next door (or should we say geek next door) who is suddently thrust into the limelight - a character to which almost any young girl struggling to find her identity can relate. A great read - especially for those who have or are growing up in New York City!
I LOVED this book! It was ADDICTING!! Annie is a great character in this book and her story is cool. I LOVED the way the book ended, I thought that it was the perfect line. At the end of a lot of the chapters I just screamed because I wanted to get in the book and slap some sense into them, but then I realized that this is what makes a book good, when you feel like you are really in the story and you actually feel for the characters. This book is AMAZING and I recommend it to everyone. It is a great read, I hope you like it as much as me.
I picked up this book with high expectations, especially after having seen the raving reviews. It fell short for me, however. While it wasn't horrible, I wasn't excited to read it. When I finished it, I was glad to move on to another book. I will say, it was well written as far as YA books go, and maybe it was just me, but I could have passed on this one. Having said that, there are probably quite a few of you out there who would like it. I cannot put my finger on exactly what it was that didn't satisfy.
I am a 15 year old girl, and i am in a similar situation that the main character, Annie is in at the beginning of the book. She is very normal, she goes to a normal high school and has a two best friends, just like me. That all changes when she takes a trip to New York to visit her aunt and audition Juilliard. After not being selected to attend the school she runs into a television producer. He is looking for someone to play the role of a slightly awkward, interesting character in a new teen soap opera. Annie is typecasted, meaning she is selected for the role because her personality is so similar to the character's. Annie gets whisked away to live and work in NYC. She is thrown into the world of hardcore partying, older men, and the paparazzi. I really liked this book, because even though at the end of the book Annie's life was very different from mine she still went through a lot of the things i do. Some of the time she is a high profile TV star but most of the time she is just a 16-year-old girl, just like me. The author creates realistic and dynamic characters that really add a lot to the already thrilling plot line. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys other teen novels, it may not be the most sophisticated writing but it was really entertaining!
Annie Hoffman can't seem to get anything right. She can't get her driver's license, making her the only almost sixteen-year-old without one, meaning it's back to the buses. She can't get into Juilliard, since apparently she doesn't have much talent playing the violin. She can't get the guy of her dreams to notice her. And she can't get out of her stupid school with its stupid lunches.

One thing Annie can do, though, is make a talent agent take interest in her, making him give her a card, which would then land her in the newest and hottest teen soap drama, Country Day. Its certainly pays to leave an audition nearly crying; you never know who might notice your acting skills.

Everything goes from okay to awesome for Annie. She becomes America's sweetheart and is on the cover of every celebrity publication there is.

But Annie soon finds out that the biggest and best shot the paparazzi can take is when a celebrity is at their worst. And once it is printed for everyone to see, those who once adored her turn on her easily, even when they don't know the entire story. It's up to Annie to find her true self and, hopefully, find her way out of the negative limelight.

Not like the other novels that take on the plot of the girl-next-door who instantly becomes a teen sensation, BETTER OFF FAMOUS? has a mind of its own. With its realistic story of a girl lost in the limelight, struggling her way to get back to normal, with cameras following her every move, Jane Mendle creates a story that mirrors the mistakes that those we have all taken notice of make every day.

Reviewed by Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen
Mendle brings the fun teen novel to new highs. It's a compelling read, pulls the audience along, but doesn't pander. An easy, but intelligent read, and an insightful take on teen angst.