sunset boulevard
The A-List Hollywood Royalty Series written by Zoey Dean
274 Pages
This book follows the personal struggles of several characters at Beverly High School while a new teen movie is hosted on their campus.
Myla Everhart is popularity's princess, as her parents are hollywood stars, she's rich, and beautiful. She prides herself on manipulating her peers and spends the majority of the novel trying to get her boyfriend back. She is unsuccessful and the book ends with her basking in a pool of sadness in realization that she only has one true friend: her long lost sister JoJo.
JoJo "BarfBarf" Everhart is reconnected with her famous parents after they decide to find their love child they put up for adoption years ago. JoJo is a small town girl and at first gets devoured by bullying after an embarrassing event at a party. Myla takes JoJo under her wing and transforms her into a bombshell, at the cost of giving up her crush Jacob Porter-Goldsmith. This character is the classic example of good girl gone popular, loses something, then returns to her true self.
Jacob "Jake" Porter-Goldsmith is an AV student who goes from tutor to movie star after an on the spot audition for "Teen Angel", the movie bringing so much attention to BHH. He experiences the male version of JoJo's experience, dating his co-star, becoming disrespectful to his parents, and ditching his best friend Miles, to being humbled after being dumped. He has a crush on Amelie Adams, the co-star he tutored but never pursues.
Amelie Adams is a child star looking for normalcy and love. She longs to be a regular high school student and is tired of being dismissed by pretty boy actors.
Ash Gilmore is the pampered ex of Myla Everhart and lives a lonely existence in his father's mansion, both of his parents living their own lives elsewhere with the occasional glance in his direction. Gordon, his father, recruits him to babysit a wild music artist, Daisy. after a few surprising turn of events, the two fall for each other, and Ash rekindles his friendship with Jake.
Overall, it is a pretty good book. There is a huge emphasis designer labels to create this privileged world of the rich and famous. I couldn't relate to any character except Amelie, being that she was raised strictly by her mother and pushed toward achievement, but the freedoms and drama in the novel are entertaining.
This gave me motivation to keep my characters relatable, interesting, and not be afraid to put them through tough times.
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