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Spoiled (Spoiled #1)

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You say Spoiled like it's a bad thing.

Sixteen-year-old Molly Dix has just discovered that her biological father is Brick Berlin, world-famous movie star and red-carpet regular. Intrigued (and a little) terrified by her Hollywood lineage, Molly moves to Los Angeles and plunges headfirst into the deep of Beverly Hills celebrity life. Just as Molly thinks her life couldn't ge...more

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Published June 1st 2011 by Poppy

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Dec 10, 2012 Tex Thompson rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya

I think I just need to stop reading fiction for myself. I have so much more fun that way.

Spoiled was the book that my 14-year-old tutoring student picked out for her English assignment, so there was nothing for me to do but saddle up and spend a few hours in her world: celebrities, makeup, fashions, and gossip galore.

What REALLY worries me is how much I liked it.

Here's how I think they got me.

1. Enthusiasm. You know, it doesn't really matter what a streaker looks like. What you admire about them...more I think I just need to stop reading fiction for myself. I have so much more fun that way.

Spoiled was the book that my 14-year-old tutoring student picked out for her English assignment, so there was nothing for me to do but saddle up and spend a few hours in her world: celebrities, makeup, fashions, and gossip galore.

What REALLY worries me is how much I liked it.

Here's how I think they got me.

1. Enthusiasm. You know, it doesn't really matter what a streaker looks like. What you admire about them is the exuberant bravery with which they tear bare-ass-naked down the street, their fleshy parts bouncing with reckless, joyful hedonism. These authors have exactly that mentality: what they have written is thoroughly loud, flashy, ridiculous, and implausible. That's a feature, not a bug.

2. Smarts. There is a real wit to the writing - plenty to entertain my jaded old brain. And the characters themselves (well, the main characters, at least) are no dim-bulbs either. It is a real treat to read a book whose main conflict is generated by the mostly-intelligent decisions of mostly-intelligent characters - where nobody has to be a terrific idiot in order to turn the plot or draw out its drama.

3. Heart. Probably I'm just suffering from dizzyingly low expectations, but it was so refreshing to read about a couple of believable, relatable, intermittently admirable young ladies. The loud one isn't naturally a despicable shrew - she behaves that way when it serves her own interests. The shy one doesn't break down crying after the first cruel prank - she chins up, knuckles down, and starts figuring out how to fight back. Their emotions are believable in magnitude and duration, and underneath all the candy and bombast, they're characters worth caring about.

The tone did seem uneven in places - it was irksome to go from fun and borderline-believable (A kid named Arugula? Sure, it's LA) to wearingly cliché (Wacky inventor-dad's wacky inventions cause trouble? You don't say...) That's not so bad for the bit parts, but I wish the authors hadn't made a caricature of the Clueless Dad whose cluelessness is supposed to be a source of genuine frustration and anxiety for the leading ladies.

So, all right: this book is a candy-coated bombshell with some rough spots, and I'm not as ashamed of myself as I'd like to be for enjoying it. But do pick it up soon if you're so inclined: this thing is saturated to the gills with pop culture references, and it's going to date faster than... uh... last year's Louie Guccis. (less)

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Dec 02, 2011 Pragya rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-i-own, books-for-swap, 2011

Well, I didn't think much of the book frankly and wouldn't have read it if I hadn't been gifted it. The first word, line, page didn't prompt me to read further. But I still give the book 2 stars because it has a plot and there are no grammar or other issues, so it is writing! Never mind the plot is so repeated in the history of books that it is nothing new. Frankly, if I had read what the book was about, I would never have been interested. It was only the cover that pulled me towards itself. Gre...more

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Apr 15, 2013 Jaimie Fisher rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book opens up on a teenage girl who is shopping with her best friend in the sunny California. Brooke Berlin is the daughter on one of the most successful actors in Hollywood, Brick Berlin. On the other side of America, Molly Dix is just discovering that her biological father is Brick Berlin, after her mother passes away she now must move to California and settle into the rich lifestyle that her dad and her step sister inherit. As she moves to her new home, she finds that it's difficult to a...more

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Mar 29, 2013 Ashley Clifford rated it 3 of 5 stars

Spoiled is a book that should be for outside-of-the-classroom reading only, with the exception of all girl schools. On that note, I would definitely only recommend this book for girls between the ages of 13-15. The main theme of this book is that it’s ok not to fit in, and a little change in your life is a good thing. Trust is also one of the main themes in this book. The novel was a very easy to read, and there was not much vocabulary that I didn’t already know. The only confusing part about r...more Spoiled is a book that should be for outside-of-the-classroom reading only, with the exception of all girl schools. On that note, I would definitely only recommend this book for girls between the ages of 13-15. The main theme of this book is that it’s ok not to fit in, and a little change in your life is a good thing. Trust is also one of the main themes in this book. The novel was a very easy to read, and there was not much vocabulary that I didn’t already know. The only confusing part about reading this book was that one chapter would be from one of the main character’s points of view, while the next chapter would be from the other main character’s view, and every chapter would switch off between the 2 main character’s points of view. Overall, I’m really glad I read this book.
Molly Dix, a 16 year old girl from Indiana, must move in with her movie star father, Brick Berlin. A few months before her mother died, she told Molly that her father was the very popular movie star, Brick Berlin. Molly never knew that he was her father, for her mother never told here who and where her father was. Up until now, Molly had never known that she had a father. She has never liked change very much, so this was an uncomfortable step in her life. What Molly was most nervous about was how well she would fit in at LA, since it is over 10 times bigger than her hometown in Indiana. But the thing she was most afraid of was her half sister, Brooke Berlin. She was terrified about how Brooke would like her. Throughout the book, Brooke shows mixed feelings towards Molly about how she thinks of her. Also, throughout the book, Molly has a rough time getting used to the fact that her father is a very successful movie star, and her house is bigger than any hotel she has ever seen. Molly’s life changed so much, and the novel is basically the life of a victorious movie star’s two daughters- one that had grown up with him, and the other had no idea that he was even her father.
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Jan 08, 2013 DiAnna Moreno added it

I thought this book was a good book. I usually don't read drama books or books about things that aren't vampires, fairies, etc. from the beginning this book had a good catch. Since when does a lonely lost girl find out her father is famous?!
A girl named Molly was a smart, funny, ad nice girl. She had a boyfriend named Danny who she has dated since forever ago. Molly's mother passed away and Molly is lost and confused. Molly's mother was a costume maker for plays and was an inspiration to Molly....more

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Jun 28, 2012 Carol Beggy rated it 4 of 5 stars

It’s unfortunate, but not surprising, I guess, that there is a backlash to Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan’s Spoiled, a novel that is a fun and important read. Important? Yes, because as a YA novel these keen observers of the nexus of celebrity and fashion took a subject matter that fascinates young people and exposes it for what it is. I covered red-carpet events for legit media and when I talk to young people all they care about is: who did you meet?, what did they wear?, how many Tweets of y...more

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Apr 12, 2012 YA Reads Book Reviews rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: jocie

Originally featured on www.yareads.com, reviewed by Jocie

Molly Dix’s mother, Laurel recently died. On her deathbed, Laurel confesses to Molly that her father is world famous movie star, Brick Berlin. Thus, Molly moves to Hollywood, and starts a new life there. Navigating past a vindictive half-sister, the tabloids and a new school, Molly tries to fit her old life into her new one.

I was not impressed by this book. The plot was lacking, and really quite slow. I was bored for the first one hundred...more

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Mar 24, 2012 ALPHAreader rated it 5 of 5 stars

Brooke Berlin is one party away from making the Hollywood ‘it’ list. She has all the credentials – movie star daddy, tragic tale of childhood abandonment, killer good looks, enviable fashion sense and a requisite nemesis. Now all she needs is a sweet sixteen party to introduce her to the media and world stage.

Her father, action hero movie star Brick Berlin, has promised Brooke a sweet sixteen party that will make MTV viewers weep. But Brick has an even bigger surprise for his little princess… i...more

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Mar 16, 2012 Kate rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

I love this book. So much. If you are a fan of Cocks and Morgan's webpage Go Fug Yourself, or watch Gossip Girl, or 90210 (original flavor) then you will probably love this book too. It's everything a fish out of water story should be. Sad midwestern girl moves to California to stay with a movie star father she didn't know she had. Mean girls half-sister pretending to be besties. Horribly stuck up new classmates and of course a few welcoming faces who may or may not be using you. It's fabulous....more

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Feb 03, 2012 Jennie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-jan

At first I wasn't going to touch this book with a ten-foot pole because it seemed...totally not my thing. Then I noticed some reviews of this book, and even though I didn't read the reviews, I trusted the reviewers, so I picked it up. Then I started to read and went "...what?" and was torn between believing that this was a parody or if the writing was just that bad. And then I put it down for a couple of weeks and finally, since I hate leaving books unfinished and it was getting close to the end...more

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Jan 28, 2012 Molly rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People who don't usually like trendy/light/chick lit books

Shelves: 2012

I'm not going to lie, I was skeptical about this book and only agreed to read it for a book club. I like non-fiction, classics, and sci-fi, and utterly failed the last celebrity baby name quiz I took at a baby shower. I kept reading that this was "soapy" which is generally a warning word for me.

Maybe it was my low expectations that made me appreciate it. There aren't any Earth-shattering revelations in "Spoiled," but it was the perfect way to unwind during a rainy week of public transportation...more

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Jan 15, 2012 Ms. Library rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-general-fiction, really-entertaining

Where Did I Get This Book?: From the public library;)

How Did I Hear about This Book?: I heard about this book from a friend on Goodreads who gave it a good review.

Plot: Molly is just your average 16-year-old living in Indiana until one day everything changes. Her mother dies of cancer, and she finds out her dad is none other than Brick Berlin, a world-famous movie star. She moves away from her small hometown and to L.A., only to be confronted by a completely different world, and a sister who mig...more Where Did I Get This Book?: From the public library;)

How Did I Hear about This Book?: I heard about this book from a friend on Goodreads who gave it a good review.

Plot: Molly is just your average 16-year-old living in Indiana until one day everything changes. Her mother dies of cancer, and she finds out her dad is none other than Brick Berlin, a world-famous movie star. She moves away from her small hometown and to L.A., only to be confronted by a completely different world, and a sister who might not be so welcoming.

Negatives: There are a couple of paint-by-numbers plot points here that you would expect, given the fish out of water storyline. There is also the predictable point where our heroine falls for the sister's nice act, only to be betrayed by her. That can be a little frustrating, especially when the reader knows exactly what is going on and wants to shake the character to their senses.

Positives: I really think this book surprised me. I suspected it to be just shallow candy, but the authors didn't fall into the trap of just making the sister a mean girl. I think they managed to give her depth, and make her likable even when you wanted to kill her. I think this also had a definite Mean Girls vibe. Though there is a lot of talk about name brand clothes and bags, there is the definite sense that the authors are poking fun of these things. They also focus on making the girls human beings, as opposed to caricatures of themselves. Often in books like these, they tend to gloss over the dead parent aspect or make it melodramatic, but I think this one managed to avoid those pitfalls and make it seem a little more realistic. I think the end was surprisingly sweet, and I really want to read the sequel.

Rating: 4 Movie Stars out of 5

Recommend: If you're a fan of YA lit or Mean Girls, you might like this book. Its an entertaining read, and its exactly what I wanted it to be. Its candy, yes, but I think its worth your time, especially if you're looking for a fun read for the gloomy days of January.(less)

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Nov 08, 2011 Ana rated it 4 of 5 stars

Also posted on http://whatyareading.com

Discovering that your father was rich and famous and, therefore, you are. It’s a story that’s been told since the time of princesses. Unlike most people, though, the Gofugyourself girls tell it well.

Here are the facts:

-Molly Dix is a tomboy.

-Her step-sister, Brooke Berlin, is a spoiled girly-girl.

-Brooke had never heard of her father’s illegitimate child before and is furious at her for suddenly stealing the spotlight.

-Brooke is viciously manipulative and a...more

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Oct 19, 2011 Ciara rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: crummy-chick-lit, read-in-2011

i didn't expect this to be great literature. i picked it up solely because i have been reading the go fug yourself blog for six years, i think it's fun & clever, & i was curious to see how those ladies transferred their wit to a young adult book. this was just as frothy & silly as i expected (in a fun way!), but it was also a little more formulaic than i expected. it was as if they outlined it using a guidebook on how to write chick lit (such things exist). down-to-earth indiana girl...more i didn't expect this to be great literature. i picked it up solely because i have been reading the go fug yourself blog for six years, i think it's fun & clever, & i was curious to see how those ladies transferred their wit to a young adult book. this was just as frothy & silly as i expected (in a fun way!), but it was also a little more formulaic than i expected. it was as if they outlined it using a guidebook on how to write chick lit (such things exist). down-to-earth indiana girl molly dix's mother dies after a struggle with cancer, but not before confessing that molly's father is in fact the world-famous actor brick berlin. it's is molly's mother's dying wish that molly move in to brick's palatial estate in los angeles & get to know him. one hitch: brick has another 16-year-old daughter, brooke, by another woman (apparently he married brooke's mother before molly's mother got in touch to let him know she was pregnant...even though brooke is a couple of months older? wouldn't that mean that he cheated on brooke's mother with molly's mother & then went home & married brooke's mother? whatever). & brooke is not excited about sharing her father & the possibility of an attendant celebrity spotlight, with another girl.

it's your typical fish-out-of-water story, as brooke backstabs molly & makes her life miserable. of course a couple of good samaritans (who inevitably turn out to be loyal, intelligent, funny, & if male & straight, attractive) take molly under their wing & help her learn the ropes. molly is befriended by crafty shelby, whose father runs "hey!" magazine, a celebrity tabloid. molly's new friends max & teddy warn molly that shelby is only using her to pursue a life-long vendetta against brooke, but molly doesn't listen & hijinks ensue. eventually the shit hits the fan & molly & brooke repair their relationship, only for an accidental betrayal to rip it asunder again, which causes molly to flee back to indiana to take care of some unfinished business & try to make her peace with her new life.

there is A LOT about this book that makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. if i were dying of cancer, i'm sure i would be very distracted, but hopefully i'd be able to get it together enough to realize that maybe the best course of action for my teenage daughter would NOT to be to rip her away from the only world she has ever known, including a boyfriend, a best friend, a spot on the cross-country team, & loving grandparents, & send her packing to a celebrity in los angeles. i don't know if this was some kind of satirical winking conceit on the parts of cocks & morgan, or if it was just a very sloppy & implausible way to set up the story. & although molly is always pretty upfront about the fact that she's in los angeles because her mother died, you'd think that she'd be a little bit more emotionally destroyed. when my dad died, i was pretty fucked up for like three years, & i wasn't a teenager when he died, nor was i still living at home & relying on him for full-time parenting.

the "black moment" at the end also made no sense. (the "black moment" is when it looks like everything is going wrong for the protagonist, the ultimate conflict.) it didn't really seem any worse than anything else that had happened in the book. that only thing that made it worse was molly's reaction, & her reaction was fairly inexplicable. it's like cocks & morgan had her react more dramatically in order to amp up the drama of the moment, but they didn't really earn it, you know?

which...fine. it's not like these ladies were gunning to be national book finalists or anything. they're not looking to supplant war & peace on any book lists. so it's not the best writing (or plotting, or characterization...) in the world. i expected froth, i got froth. i only felt sad because the book is chock-full of name-dropping & pop cultural references. it's what i expected from the fug girls, but it means the book is going to be unforgivably dated within a year. there were some cute little winks, like naming a character jennifer parker (mary mcfly's girlfriend's name in the "back to the future" movies)...at the end of the day, i have read far worse young adult books. i mean, this is arguably better than bumped, which i reviewed a couple of months ago. just know what you're getting into & don't expect anything more.(less)

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Oct 08, 2011 Kathryn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: miscellaneous, on-my-nook

I am a huge fan of Go Fug Yourself, a fashion disaster blog run by the Fug Girls, Heather and Jessica. Their commentary is hilarious, so much so that even people who have no interest in clothes read it. Every year during March Madness, they run Fug Madness, a tournament for poorly-dressed celebrities; the “winner” is the one who has committed the most heinous crimes against fashion in the previous year. (Past winners include Bai Ling, Aubrey O’Day, Amber Rose, and Taylor Momsen.) Both women are...more I am a huge fan of Go Fug Yourself, a fashion disaster blog run by the Fug Girls, Heather and Jessica. Their commentary is hilarious, so much so that even people who have no interest in clothes read it. Every year during March Madness, they run Fug Madness, a tournament for poorly-dressed celebrities; the “winner” is the one who has committed the most heinous crimes against fashion in the previous year. (Past winners include Bai Ling, Aubrey O’Day, Amber Rose, and Taylor Momsen.) Both women are excellent writers (I wouldn’t keep coming back to their site otherwise.) So when they announced their first fiction book, Spoiled, I pre-ordered it on my Nook right away.

Spoiled is the story of Molly Dix, a perfectly ordinary girl who discovers that she is the illegitimate daughter of a famous movie star. She moves to Hollywood to join him and his other daughter, Brooke. The girls are the same age, and neither knew about the other until the move was planned, so as you might imagine, they don’t exactly hit it off. Molly has difficulty fitting into the new world, where a dusty old Jansport backpack is not exactly de rigeur at the private school she has to attend. And Brooke is less than helpful...

If you’re familiar with Mean Girls and other similar movies, you can guess the general outline of events, with various wacky misunderstandings, complications from schemers, and the like complicating their lives until Molly and Brooke finally bond. I enjoyed Spoiled very much for what it is – a popcorn book for young women. I also enjoyed the many clever turns of phrase (e.g., “He’s awfully blind for someone who gave himself Lasik for an Arbor Day present”).

On the negative side, the book is very, very pop culture-riffic, meaning that in just a few years, it will seem quite dated. There’s lots of talk about fashions, celebrities, and technology (Twitter, FB, and Skype all get mentioned), which help with the setting (though I sometimes found the name-dropping of celebrities and designers annoying) but also date it very firmly to right about now.

My only other major complaint, and it is quite minor, is that the authors make the mistake of using words other than “said” too much. They use some rather unusual options for dialogue tags, which have the effect of throwing the reader out of the story. (This particular mistake is mentioned in How NOT to Write a Novel as a classic error of new authors; they tend to think that “said” is boring, so they try to change it up. Thing is, readers just skip right over “said” – whereas “asseverated” or “grinned” will make readers stop in their tracks.)

To be perfectly honest, if not for my affection for the Fug Girls, I probably would have given this book two out of five. I’m not a huge fan of this particular type of YA novel, and while Mean Girls was pretty funny, it’s really not my favorite kind of movie (I’m all about old-school screwball comedies). For people who do enjoy these types, however, Spoiled is excellent, and I strongly recommend it.(less)

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Aug 30, 2011 Gem rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read2011, yabooks, adultnonfiction

Spoiled definitely falls into that realm of “chick lit” for teens – a novel about fashion, bitchy girls, and Hollywood life. I tend to stay from books like these but Spoiled was actually kind of fun, mostly because of the main character, Molly. The reader can easily sympathize with Molly – her mother has just passed away, she’s discovered something quite shocking about her family history, and she has to get used to the idea of having a sister (a spoiled, bratty, rich sister who doesn’t care much...more

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Aug 20, 2011 Carey rated it 4 of 5 stars

Spoiled might be cotton candy fluff, but I LOVE cotton candy! It's one of the best reasons to go to the fair, right? (Other reason being boys, roller coasters, to hang with your friends, all the awesome junk food, and, if you're lucky, lots of animals too.)

Molly is a midwestern girl who finds out, through her mother's dying confession, that her father is one of the most famous male actors in the world, Brick Berlin. Brooke Berlin is Brick's spoiled, blonde, ambitious daughter who loves shopping...more Spoiled might be cotton candy fluff, but I LOVE cotton candy! It's one of the best reasons to go to the fair, right? (Other reason being boys, roller coasters, to hang with your friends, all the awesome junk food, and, if you're lucky, lots of animals too.)

Molly is a midwestern girl who finds out, through her mother's dying confession, that her father is one of the most famous male actors in the world, Brick Berlin. Brooke Berlin is Brick's spoiled, blonde, ambitious daughter who loves shopping and hates coming home to her huge, silent house. Molly has to leave behind her childhood sweetheart, best friend, and everything she's ever known, and Brooke has to make room for a new sister when she doesn't get enough attention herself from her busy, famous, Crackberry addict father.

Brooke and Molly's different perspectives, needs and mistakes create sibling warfare that might be a little tiny bit predictable, and sometimes cliche if I have to be honest about it, but it still made a great read.

I felt Molly and Brooke were both real, loving, hurt, and genuinely good, if flawed, characters I enjoyed. Their conflict came about because of their circumstances and feelings regarding those circumstances that they based their actions on, but not because either was an irredeemable person. You end up being able to sympathize with and like both.

If you grew up loving Sweet Valley High and other YA literature, this is definitely fun reading, and better than most in it's genre. Brick is a wonderful character, as is Max and Teddy. I'm now cheering for Max to snag Jake, and I definitely think Arugula should get a lot more airtime. I loved her SAT inspired sentences. Hell, I hope for more of them all!

I wouldn't look to this book for heavy, symbolic reading, but the language in it is far superior to most YA (used some of my favorite SAT words in both the text and through Arugula). Spoiled is the perfect summer beach fare, and I definitely am looking forward to a sequel.

Thanks Fug Girls! Love, a devoted member of Fug Nation.(less)

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Aug 17, 2011 Cara rated it 2 of 5 stars

The tagline says it all - "You say SPOILED like it's a bad thing".

I would have devoured this book as a teenager. I was addicted to Sweet Valley High's and wanted to be a blonde California girl who's biggest trouble was deciding who to date that day.

This is the story of Brooke and Molly. Brooke has grown up all her life in Hollywood with her famous father. Molly is the child he knew he had, but her mother was adamant that she remain in Ohio, in ignorance of her father and that life. All that cha...more

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Jul 08, 2011 Molly rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: guilty-pleasure, ya-lit, on-the-classroom-shelf, recommended, 4-stars, i-want-to-go-to-there, summer-2011

As a junior high English teacher, I always feel the need to keep up with what the kids are reading...but I totally bought this one for myself! (though I plan to add it to the shelves in the fall) The story of sibling rivalry reminded me a bit of Popular meets Mean Girls, and while it's nothing new, it's still done in a highly entertaining fashion.

Since the authors spend most of their time writing about and mocking the ridiculous activities of celebrities, the whole novel feels like a tongue in...more

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Jun 11, 2011 Tamara rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya, read2011

Exactly what I expected, but a little more so. I love the authors' blog, Go Fug Yourself, both for the general hilarity and the fact that they love some of the same trash that I do but are completely self-aware, and there were a few descriptions that made me laugh out loud, and not just the ones that were clearly directed at their blog audience (though clearly ANYONE wearing shiny formal shorts is a bad sign).

The story itself doesn't quite match the title, in a good way; there is just a lot of d...more

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Jun 05, 2011 Alexandra rated it 4 of 5 stars

If books were food, this one would be cotton candy, which is to say--in the words of a vendor at a recent baseball game I attended--zero percent nutritious, 100 percent delicious. As a fan of the authors' hilarious blog GoFugYourself.com, I found the pace and style familiarly brisk and hilarious. The story, about an Indiana teenager who moves to Los Angeles weeks after her mother's death to live with a father and sister she never knew existed until her mother reveals as much on her death bed, se...more

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May 29, 2011 Kelly Hager rated it 4 of 5 stars

Molly is your average teenager. Except she just found out that her father is a mega-famous movie star/director Brick Berlin and since her mom recently died, she's heading to LA to live with him and her new sister, Brooke. (Brooke didn't know about Molly either.) And to say it's going to be a rocky adjustment is putting it so mildly.

I really enjoyed this fun, frothy novel. It's the perfect summer read, seriously. Everything about this book says you should read it by the pool on a really sunny day...more

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May 28, 2011 Nancy rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a fun read with a few nuggets of wisdom included via Laurel, Molly's mom. It's a peek into the world we can't look away from - Hollywood. Brick is a nice, self-centered actor turned producer/director who deposited his sperm into two women at nearly the same time. Both women found they had buns in the oven. One married Brick then went off to "find herself" and has been MIA for the past 4 years while the other returned to Indiana to raise the child in her own humble roots. Then she died.

So...more

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Feb 27, 2011 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit

To be published June 2011....

I was expecting a Gossip Girl-ish book, and that is like, totally, what I got for the first few chapters! Like, omg! :) But I liked reading it, especially when the book dropped some of the brand-droppings, and got into the meat of the story. Sure, the story has been done before, but with the great cover on this one, it's going to very popular in bookstores!

Molly's mom is dying from cancer and admits a confession on her deathbed--Molly's dad is Brick Berlin--a movie s...more

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Jul 07, 2012 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, contemporary, fashion, ya-challenge-summer-2012

Brick Berlin may be my favorite fictional big-time Hollywood character (joining the ranks of John Lodge Johnson of Douglas Coupland's Miss Wyoming). Brick's daughter Brooke discovers, after the tabloids, that she has a half-sister, Molly, whose mother just died back in Indiana. Molly's grandparents think it's a good time for her to finally meet her father, who happens to be one of the world's most famous action movie heroes. Molly trucks it from Indiana to Bel Aire, California to join the ranks...more

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Oct 12, 2011 Emily rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-releases

From Books and Threads

There’s no doubt that Spoiled is a really, really fun book. I’ve enjoyed the Fug Girls’ snarky fashion and celebrity blog for years, and Spoiled is written in the same breezy and hilarious style. The plot isn’t as fantastic as the writing style, but I wanted to forgive the book anything just because the ride was a blast.

As mentioned in the synopsis, our co-heroines are half-sisters suddenly introduced to each other after the death of Molly’s mother. And their father just ha...more From Books and Threads

There’s no doubt that Spoiled is a really, really fun book. I’ve enjoyed the Fug Girls’ snarky fashion and celebrity blog for years, and Spoiled is written in the same breezy and hilarious style. The plot isn’t as fantastic as the writing style, but I wanted to forgive the book anything just because the ride was a blast.

As mentioned in the synopsis, our co-heroines are half-sisters suddenly introduced to each other after the death of Molly’s mother. And their father just happens to be one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. Very often Molly comes across as just too sweet to be real. She forgives insult after insult and even when she decides to fight back, she instantly feels terribly about it. Her naivety is also played up a little too much especially when she first meets Brooke. Brooke’s insincerity and sabotage of Molly nearly drips off the page, but Molly doesn’t even suspect anything until she’s been publicly ridiculed for the results of Brooke’s actions.

Brooke, on the other hand, is delightfully mean though she doesn’t quite reach the heights of her hero, Blair Waldorf. Her nastiness is a lot more interesting than Molly’s sweetness, and as badly as I felt for Molly, I tended to root for her mean girl sister. Brooke’s dark secret is also maybe a little too easily revealed. Once she’s hugged, she lets go of that mean girl image almost instantly to try to form a sisterly bond with Molly.

My absolute favourite character was the movie star father, Brick Berlin. Every time he appeared, I couldn’t help laughing at the perfect satire the authors created. He was hilariously over sincere, and his ever-present iPhone with its note taking app provided more than a few laughs even as the reader felt badly for any child of this self-absorbed man.

I definitely want to read the upcoming sequel to Spoiled. None of the plot devices or characterizations (other than maybe the father Berlin) were terribly original, but the writing more than made up for it. Also the authors really seemed to enjoy themselves. You know how sometimes you read a book by established authors just entering the YA field, and it feels like they figured it’d be easy money so no need to actually write well? The Fug Girls are the complete opposite. The authorial voice is obviously having a great time, and it pulls the reader along for the ride. (less)

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Jul 27, 2011 Jessica Day rated it 4 of 5 stars

It took me some time to warm up to this book. I'm not the girly/girl type and I admit to never watching the movie Mean Girls. The Hollywood and fashionista aspect of the book didn't appeal to me. Still, my fellow coworker said that the girls at GoFugYourself were amazing and that I needed to give the book a chance. It took a couple chapters, but quickly I was reading the book for myself and not for her. Plus once I had warmed up to both of the main characters, I loved how the Hollywood setting p...more

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Jul 08, 2011 Courtney rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arc, friendship, funny-stuff, teen-fiction

As a fan of the "Go Fug Yourself" blog, I was super-stoked to see its creators authoring a YA book. I am delighted to say that their debut offering lived up to my expectations and perhaps even exceeded them. I anticipated humor (check), snark (check) and plenty of designer name-dropping (check).
In this twist on the country-girl-moving-to-the-big-city tale, good-natured Molly leaves behind everything she knows in Indiana after the death of her mother to move to LA to live with the father she's n...more

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Jan 10, 2013 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book was, entertaining, witty at times, laugh-out-loud funny, and easy to read. I loved how the author mixed in real Hollywood with each of the characters' own stories. It made me keep reading and kept me interested because I wanted to see how the two sisters, Molly and Brook, with two totally different personalities, would figure out a way to get along with each other. When Brook's dad told her that Molly was going to come live them, Brook shockingly said, "She's from one of those middle s...more

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Jan 18, 2012 Zarina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Spoiled is not a literary masterpiece and in that sense is not worth 5 stars. But it's the first book in a long while that I enjoyed so much that I just couldn't put it down and ended up finishing it in a single day. It provided me with much-needed escapism and was simply a very fun read.

Brooke Berlin is the 16 year-old daughter from famous movie star Brick Berlin. She's living a perfect Hollywood life filled with glitz and glamour, spending many hours using her black Amex for retail therapy.

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