Review: 4.5 Star Fun and Sweet Story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2013
This story is about Amanda, a small town girl, who spends her days and nights moderating a celebrity gossip site. She's all about feeding the gossip sites and mocking celebrities (especially one Liam Brody)until one day Liam contacts her as a moderator on the HDU site and asks her to give him a break, because he's working on getting a role in a serious movie that means a lot to him.He surprises Amanda with his video charm and she offers a solution - stop dating trampy looking models and date a regular girl, and it will do wonders for you image.A deal is struck and a contract signed and Amanda becomes that girl.I really loved the playful banter between Liam and Amanda, and the fact that their relationship stayed completely platonic for so long. Amanda never tried to throw herself at him and in fact never forced herself on him at all. (not to say other girls didn't... sheesh). At first it's all rainbows and unicorns when they debut their relationship, but now Amanda is on the receiving end of the celebrity gossip and it's not as nice as being on the giving end. I liked that the book showed both sides of the gossip mongering, and you got to see how people are adversely affected by it, and what people do to be famous.My one problem with the book is the random skipping ahead. e.g. a chapter will end with someone saying something at dinner or something to that extent and the next chapter starts with Amanda waking up in bed (maybe even 4 days later) - but what happened in between!? and what happened right after Liam says something so bold or flirty!? It could be just me - but I'm all about the details and curious about the 'in between' parts that I feel I've missed.I loved the ending. Even though it was very predictable and I knew (or had a darn good idea) of exactly what would happen, I still loved it. I'm surprised to see there will be a sequel because the book ended pretty clean and all wrapped up, but now I'm curious as to what will get tossed into the story, and I look forward to reading it!