Live & Fabulous!

LBD #2

by Grace Dent

At long last, the LBD (Les Bambinos Dangereuses to the uninformed) have finished another awful term at Blackwell School. Finally, Ronnie, Claude, and Fleur are free! If only they had plans for the summer . . . and if only Ronnie’s boyfriend Jimi Steele would get his act together. . . . Just as their bliss fades into the boring summer blues, rock god and the LBD’s friend Spike Saunders sends them free tickets to the Astlebury Music Festival. Brilliant! Soon enough, the LBD are on their way for a weekend of henna tattoos, festival chic, awesome music, and about a million totally lush festival lads. In other words: the natural environment for the LBD! Packed with the same humor and joie de vivre that made LBD: It’s a Girl Thing an international success, LBD: Live & Fabulous! is a sassy, classy romp sure to win the LBD a whole new legion of fans.

Genres: Young Adult, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Childrens, Romance

288 pages, Paperback

First published May 24, 2004

About the author

British columnist, broadcaster and author.

Between 2003-2010, Dent published eleven young adult novels, and was also a presenter on BBC2's The Culture Show, and a magazine and newspaper journalist, including a TV column for the Guardian.

From 2011 to 2017 she wrote a restaurant column for the Evening Standard, and became the Guardian's restaurant critic in 2018. She is a regular judge on the BBC's MasterChef UK and makes frequent appearances in Channel 4's television series Very British Problems.

Grace said in her role as an author for teens: ‘....kids who claim to have never read anything longer than a text message are ploughing through my books nagging me for the next one. This makes me insanely proud.’

She lives in East London with her husband, who works in the music industry. When she's not writing comedy Grace is to be found 'faffing about on the Internet' or 'faffing about in the garden or kitchen' or 'just 'faffing about generally. "I'm an excellent 'faffer."

Reviews

[April (Aprilius Maximus)]

I've read the first two books in this series many times throughout my teenage years and I love them still every time I read them. One thing I did notice this time around though was the use of the word 'retard'. It's so offensive and I have no idea why I never noticed before but I guess that when I was a young teen, that's what people would say and that's really sad.

[Hailey]

The first one was better. This one was okay but I didn't like at the beginging how Ronnie was so upset because Jimmy didn't come and pick her up. Like she could have gone to the dance by herself and yelled at him there. It was so weird when she called the hospital to see if he was in there.

[Anisha]

i don't even know why i picked up this book. it was just UGH. :(

[Lana.]

The book came with a sticky note:
"I took a classic Jane Austin [sic]
I put in a new teenager book
read what they are reading these days."

So, I'd been warned! Yes, it's certainly not Jane Austen, where wit is valued and a huge part of the “bang”. But, it doesn’t make the bar either when compared with something contemporary and loud like Louise Rennison's “Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging".

It is, however, a (small) bit of mindless fun. Not my cuppa, and likely won't read more of the series, but mostly harmless.

[Céline]

A book of my youth.

[Brie]

I wish i could say good things about this book, I really do.

But I honestly hated it when I tried to read it as a preteen, so I thought why not give it a go now that I'm older and know what the word "mascara" is.

The story was not that great or interesting. The characters did not make me fall in love with them, I simply tolerated them for the time they were on the page.

Also the names felt awkward in it to me.

Over all, I did not enjoy this book as a preteen or a teenager, which is the age(s) the book is aimed for.

[Sara]

I admit it, I judged this book by its cover. I put off reading it for weeks because I thought it looked horrible. Really not true, however. It's a pretty cute book that has a lot of pretty funny parts. It's a tad predictable and the British slang is a bit weird at times. but it was definitely a fun read. The beginning was a little slow, but once they get to the music festival, it's a nice read.

[Sila]

Clearly a read for a younger audience (teenagers). But I read it here and there when I didn't really have much time to read, and it was fun! The best thing I got out of this book was a burning desire to go to a huge music festival for which I already started my search.

[Kathy Erskine]

OMG, like, this is chick lit at its best, i.e., the British version which has more clever dialogue than airhead speak. A truly fun read.

[Tina]

loved it

[Corrise]

Ithink this book was good but the author should should have made the part, where Jimi found Ronnie at the concert, more DRAMATIC.

[Susan O'connor]

I really liked this book. It gave you a real world look at what it wuld have been like to go to woodstock or a multiple day concert venue.....loved it

[Courtney]

Joel > Jimi

[Rebecca]

a quick witty read :)

[Rell]

the adventure continues.