Her whole life, Alexia Garcia has been told that she looks just like pop star Kari Kingsley, and one day when Alexia's photo filters through the In...
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Feb 24, 2011
Cara
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When I want to laugh and feel all glowy good inside I reach for a Janette Rallison book. She certainly didn't disappoint.
I would agrue this is the most interesting one of Rallison's I've read so far. Alexia Garcia has a hardworking mother and no nonsense grandmother who love her. She is good student, half-latina, and is a dead ringer for the pop singer sensation Kari Kingsley. Alexia has always yearned to know who her father is and the oppurtunity presents itself when Kari's assitant More...
I would agrue this is the most interesting one of Rallison's I've read so far. Alexia Garcia has a hardworking mother and no nonsense grandmother who love her. She is good student, half-latina, and is a dead ringer for the pop singer sensation Kari Kingsley. Alexia has always yearned to know who her father is and the oppurtunity presents itself when Kari's assitant More...
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Jul 09, 2010
Connie
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Mimi actually won the ARC on Janette's blog, thankfully Mimi has finals and has been to busy to read so I got to read it yesterday!
It was a fun quick read Alexia the main character is a half Latino girl whose Mexican grandmother lives with them. I loved the grandma she reminded me of my best childhood friend Erika's grandma watching her Mexican soap opera's and yelling at the TV in Spanglish.
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It was a fun quick read Alexia the main character is a half Latino girl whose Mexican grandmother lives with them. I loved the grandma she reminded me of my best childhood friend Erika's grandma watching her Mexican soap opera's and yelling at the TV in Spanglish.
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Apr 13, 2011
Lydia
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What can I say? I loved it. It seems that Janette Rallison gets deeper into life lessons the more books she rights. This was a little different than a lot of the books I've read by this author, but not in a bad way. A ton of girls everywhere have sometime in their life imagined themselves either becoming famous but not telling anyone or falling for a guy who anyone else would kill for. (I know I have.) I couldn't put the book down and now I read it over and over whenever I don't currently have
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Aug 30, 2011
Dana
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First off, I just want to say that I am now officially a fan of Janette Rallison. This is my second time reading one of her books and I'm looking forward to reading the others as well.
The first one which is Just One Wish and this one, My Double Life, were both stories that have something to do with celebrities. At first, they looked like books that are humorous and quite superficial in terms of the plot(when you read the blurb). They are actually funny. There were times when I was lau More...
The first one which is Just One Wish and this one, My Double Life, were both stories that have something to do with celebrities. At first, they looked like books that are humorous and quite superficial in terms of the plot(when you read the blurb). They are actually funny. There were times when I was lau More...
Mar 20, 2011
Lisa
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This was a very simple read just a nice relaxing book. While it was predictable in what was going to happen in the book it was still an enjoyable read.
I enjoyed Alexia and her very normal life that many teens living here in the US are living everyday. She is down to earth while being smart and like most smart girls the target of the popular girls in school. She gets whisked away into the fantasy life of superstar Kari Kingsley to be her double since Kari does n More...
I enjoyed Alexia and her very normal life that many teens living here in the US are living everyday. She is down to earth while being smart and like most smart girls the target of the popular girls in school. She gets whisked away into the fantasy life of superstar Kari Kingsley to be her double since Kari does n More...
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Jan 13, 2011
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Jun 01, 2010
Literary Cravings
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This book tells the story of Alexia Garcia who’s just your average teenager getting ready to graduate high school and begin her new life in college. Living in a single family home with her mother and grandmother, Alexia is just your down to earth girl who is just trying to live her life, aside from the fact that she’s the splitting image of Kari Kingsley one of the biggest musical superstar. After a prank put Alexia’s picture on the internet, her striking resemblance made its way to Kari and
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May 16, 2010
Rachael
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Alexia Garcia has always been told she looks exactly like the celebrity Kari Kingsley. Not that this resemblance has made her popular or given her a better life. However, this all changes when Alexia is offered a job as Kari’s double. This offer is Alexia’s ticket to Hollywood, money, and her father. All that is too much for Alexia to resist, and so, despite her mother’s warnings, Alexia takes the job. Posing as Kari, Alexia can get almost anything she wants: nice clothes, adoring fans, maybe ev
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May 07, 2010
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Alexia Garcia looks just like singing star Kari Kingsley. Everybody says so, including Kari's manager, who wants to hire Alexia to be her double. Kari's racked up some serious debts (to the tune of one million dollars), and she needs someone to lip synch at a few minor concert appearances so she can keep earning money while she's in the studio working on her next album. By moving to California and impersonating Kari, Alexia will earn plenty of money, but what's she's really interested in is the
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Jun 24, 2010
Nina
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When you ask teenage girls what they dream about, a lot of them would say a celebrity life, full of glitz, glamour and designer clothes. A life in the spotlight. They don’t think about the drama, the pressure and the media that comes along with it. Neither does Alexia...at first.
Alexia’s character was really sweet and you could tell that she wanted only the best for others and herself. She was also very independent, smart and very grounded. A character that a lot of girls can relate More...
Alexia’s character was really sweet and you could tell that she wanted only the best for others and herself. She was also very independent, smart and very grounded. A character that a lot of girls can relate More...
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Nov 17, 2011
Lynnae
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First up, the only reason I rated this book four stars instead of five is because I'm picky about my five-star books. Those are the ones that I put down and instantly want to pick up and read again right away. Rallison's Fair Godmother series got that rating because I found them rib-crackingly funny.
That aside, I really, really liked this book. I found it refreshing on many levels.
First, it was short. I love long books as much as the next person, but sometimes it's nice to More...
That aside, I really, really liked this book. I found it refreshing on many levels.
First, it was short. I love long books as much as the next person, but sometimes it's nice to More...
Jan 22, 2011
Kate
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The Pop Princess and the Pauper
A self-described "half-Latina" from a small-town, working-class family, Alexia Garcia is a dead ringer for twenty-something pop sensation, Kari Kingsley, who is also half-Latina. The amazing resemblance leads to a lucrative job offer to serve as the secret double for Kari at some of her public appearances so Kari can focus on completing an overdue album. Alexia's mom is strongly against the masquerade because, as she confesses for the first time More...
A self-described "half-Latina" from a small-town, working-class family, Alexia Garcia is a dead ringer for twenty-something pop sensation, Kari Kingsley, who is also half-Latina. The amazing resemblance leads to a lucrative job offer to serve as the secret double for Kari at some of her public appearances so Kari can focus on completing an overdue album. Alexia's mom is strongly against the masquerade because, as she confesses for the first time More...
Sep 01, 2010
A Canadian Girl
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Though Janette Rallison’s My Double Life has a serious message or two in it, it was mostly a light and breezy novel that will keep readers hooked because pretending to be someone else is just a disaster waiting to occur. Throw in some humorous scenes and a happy ending and Rallison leaves the reader with a pretty satisfied feeling.
The characters were the greatest strength of the book. Alexia is a likeable character that readers can easily relate to. Her yearning to know her father s More...
The characters were the greatest strength of the book. Alexia is a likeable character that readers can easily relate to. Her yearning to know her father s More...
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Jan 09, 2011
Robin
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Feb 10, 2011
Juju
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I love Janette Rallison's writing. She always creates wonderful characters who have heart, a good moral compass, and a strong sense of family. My Double Life is a sweet fun journey of mistaken identity and self discovery. You will absolutely root for Alexa from start to finish.
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Sep 27, 2010
Tressa
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Alexia grew up poor. She has been raised by her grandmother and mother, both Mexican, but had an American father who she has never met and who she knows almost nothing about. She looks almost exactly like a popular rock star and one day, during her senior year of high school, gets the offer to play as the rock star's double. Alexia, against her mother's wishes, takes the job and leaves her little town in Virginia to live in Hollywood. The job becomes more complicated than she thought it would an
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May 17, 2010
Jasmine ☮ ♡ ♔
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It's offical: I adore Janette Rallison. And no, it's not JUST because she hosted a giveaway for this wonderful novel and I won an ARC of it due to that contest on goodreads. . .that's just a small, insignificant, reason as to why I love her. ;) Oh, and just saying (well I'm kind of bragging. . .but hey I'm proud <3) Janette signed my copy of My Double Life. NO JOKE. =D I know, I know, I'm super lucky!
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Apr 03, 2011
Kiirsi
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This book is another great one from Janette! I really liked it.
It's another one of those "dream come true" types, in a way: a poor girl from a small town gets to live the life of a celebrity for a while, having nearly unlimited money, a driver and car, and lots of other perks as she poses as a celebrity "double."
Some authors might have a hard time making all of this believable but Janette realy pulls it off. I totally felt like I was living Alexia's More...
It's another one of those "dream come true" types, in a way: a poor girl from a small town gets to live the life of a celebrity for a while, having nearly unlimited money, a driver and car, and lots of other perks as she poses as a celebrity "double."
Some authors might have a hard time making all of this believable but Janette realy pulls it off. I totally felt like I was living Alexia's More...
Jun 10, 2010
Andrea
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First off, this book reminded me a lot of another book I read lately, although it was a chick-lit book, not a YA book. But in this story, I actually liked the celebrity that needed the double.
I fully expected to hate Kari, going into this story, but I never did. I liked her right off the bat. I felt sorry for her and I felt like that she was as normal as a girl who grew up spoiled and in the spot light could be. And I felt sorry for her. But she was so nice. And I also liked More...
I fully expected to hate Kari, going into this story, but I never did. I liked her right off the bat. I felt sorry for her and I felt like that she was as normal as a girl who grew up spoiled and in the spot light could be. And I felt sorry for her. But she was so nice. And I also liked More...
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Nov 30, 2010
Rachel
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I really liked this book, but my rating might not be completely fair. It was super good, and I enjoyed the humor and the family values instilled in it. Alexia was a great character, and her grandma was the bomb. She wasn't around much, but I totally want a grandma like that. As always, this book had me convulsing in laughter, and left me with a happy little smile at the nicely wrapped up ending. Rallison's books always leave me in a happy place. But (the dreaded "but"), I reread Just O
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Nov 22, 2010
Mandy
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Jun 07, 2010
Taffy
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If you ever need a funny, clean, romantic story all you have to do is fine 'Rallison, Janette' on your library shelf or at the book store.
Alexia wants to met her father and for just one day, make money for college and see what it's like to be famous.
But a celebrities life is not as glamorous as it seems.
She's pushed around, threatened, trained like a show dog and hurt.
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Alexia wants to met her father and for just one day, make money for college and see what it's like to be famous.
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She's pushed around, threatened, trained like a show dog and hurt.
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Dec 05, 2009
Brenda
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I loved this story! Thanks for the ARC, Janette! Alexia is a brave, spunky girl who longs for the missing part of her heart. She sets out on a daring adventure that changes not only her life, but many others as well. I laughed out loud, remembered high school and first love, and shed a few tears. I loved the relationships Alexia had with each of the main characters and that her heart was always in the right place. I thought Grant was an exceptionally well rounded character with so much honesty,
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Aug 21, 2010
Jennifer
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After the many made-for-television adaptations of "The Prince and the Pauper", this book was a pleasant surprise.
The authors writing style is descriptive without being overly wordy. I could easily imagine each scene being played out in front of me, though a lot of the narrators wit would probably be lost if this was made into a movie.
While the foreshadowing was strong enough that I always knew where the story was heading, that didn't make it any less enjoyable to read.
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The authors writing style is descriptive without being overly wordy. I could easily imagine each scene being played out in front of me, though a lot of the narrators wit would probably be lost if this was made into a movie.
While the foreshadowing was strong enough that I always knew where the story was heading, that didn't make it any less enjoyable to read.
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Jun 13, 2010
I have read quite a few good books lately. I figured maybe this one might let me down. I just didn't think I would enjoy this but I gave it a shot. I am thrilled to say that I enjoyed this. Alexia's character made me wince, laugh and hold my breath. I could only imagine stepping into the spot light to pretend you are someone else. The synopsis doesn't do this justice. It's not so much about staying true to yourself it's about finding out who you really are. (and who you are not) Janette's writi
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Feb 16, 2011
Jennifer
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Get ready for the celebrity runway! The daughter of a hard-working single mother, smart, hard-working, dateless Alexia looks like pop singer Kari Kingsley. A lot. So much so that when her honor roll picture is posted on YouTube, Alexia gets a telephone call from Kari's publicist asking her to be a body double. At first, she tells her no...until she puts the pieces together and realizes that Kari's famous father is also her father. Alexia drops everything to try to meet the father she never
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Mar 03, 2011
Nora
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Whenever I read a book by an author and like it, I see what else they've written. I pick up another book by them, and say, "this probably isn't going to live up to my expectations." Most times, my theory is correct- the book is not nearly as good as the previous one.
I have read 8 of Janette Rallison's books, and have thoroughly enjoyed every single one. Many times authors fall into a rut of the same plots and characters after about their third book, but I have found this is not t More...
I have read 8 of Janette Rallison's books, and have thoroughly enjoyed every single one. Many times authors fall into a rut of the same plots and characters after about their third book, but I have found this is not t More...
Feb 21, 2011
Susan
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I love this book, even though it was short.
Alexia Garcia is a straight A student. Her mother works hard everyday to support her grandma and her. Alexia never knew her father and when the assistant of Kari Kingsley called for a stunt double of Kari, Alexia got the job (since she looks exactly like her -except for the brown hair). Alexia's family did not support this decision (b/c of a certain unusual past). And find out wat happens next, read the book! :P It has twist and turns (well, not mu More...
Alexia Garcia is a straight A student. Her mother works hard everyday to support her grandma and her. Alexia never knew her father and when the assistant of Kari Kingsley called for a stunt double of Kari, Alexia got the job (since she looks exactly like her -except for the brown hair). Alexia's family did not support this decision (b/c of a certain unusual past). And find out wat happens next, read the book! :P It has twist and turns (well, not mu More...
Jan 24, 2011
Clickety
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This book is just chock-full of win. You can't tell by looking at the cover image, but I think they actually made the cover out of Lycra or something else equally stretchy so that they could pack the win more tightly in there. You know, without busting the spine.
This story has humor, heart, and perhaps most importantly, smarts. Yes, the characters make mistakes, but they're reasonable ones. Mistakes that don't make me want to walk away in disgust. The ordinary-girl-turned-superstar sto More...
This story has humor, heart, and perhaps most importantly, smarts. Yes, the characters make mistakes, but they're reasonable ones. Mistakes that don't make me want to walk away in disgust. The ordinary-girl-turned-superstar sto More...
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