All-American Princess (The Glitterati Files #1)
Maggie Dallen
Secrets. Lies. Revenge...Repeat. A Hollywood princess with a plan. A small-town bad boy with a secret. Some opposites attract. These two? They ignite. Why am I stranded in the middle of Nowheresville, Montana? One reason, and one reason only. Daddy sent me. He needs me to bring back Brandon MacMillan, the reclusive son of a legendary TV star, so he can reboot the series his dad made famous. This mission is simple. Get in, get the guy, get out. I'll be back in my Beverly Hills academy before my besties even know I'm gone. All I have to do is lure Brandon away from his crazy mom, the pretty girl next door, and his lifelong best friend. No biggie. Except, no one warned me about all the secrets and lies between our two families...or the fact that there's in traitor in our midst. Someone's out to sabotage me. And for all my well-laid plans...nothing has prepared me for Jack. Brandon's best friend, and my arch nemesis, the small-town hottie sees right through my lies, and his kisses...? They're definitely not part of the plan. In fact, nothing is going the way it's supposed to and no one is who they pretend to be. And if I'm not careful? I'll be the one who gives in to temptation. Author's Note: Two things you should know before you go any further. 1) This book is part of a continuing series. And 2) I've written more than 40 PG young adult books over the years...but this is not one of them. While there's no sex or F-bombs in this book, there is some mild language, steamy situations, and mature topics. This is more PG-13 than my other novels (think Gossip Girl vs Disney Channel) and if that is not to your taste, please don't read!
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Edgier Dallen. This is Dallen going in a direction she hasn't in a fair amount of time - still HS / YA romance... but this time with edgier language (even... *GASP*... a *few* curse words!!!) and situations (including one memorable barely-there bikini and some extensive making out and glancing at certain areas). And she nails it, as usual. What will be remembered about this book though is really the somewhat abrupt ending. It will arguably spark debates of whether she should have gone even more atypical and wrote one 300 ish page book, and thus that she deliberately cut this story in half, or whether the approach here was fine, that she told one complete story here that happens to have a bit of a cliffhanger ending. To be honest, it was a war that waged in my own mind for many hours (while in and out of consciousness with some kind of illness). But you can see from the 5* I gave this book that ultimately I came down on the side of this being one complete story that happens to have a cliffhanger ending, and thus the full 5* rating. Very much recommended - and I very much want the next book *now*. :D
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