Messy is written in the hilarious, sarcastic and witty manner that is the trademark of the Go Fug Yourself girls. Every page is infused with priceless jabs at both factual and fake Hollywood stars, most of whom–being the unplugged teen that I clearly am– I’ve never even heard. But here’s the catch: I laughed anyway. I didn’t even know who they were talking about and I laughed anyway. Okay, laugh is a weak word to describe my snorting-slash-snickering-slash-rolling-around-on-my-bonbon-strewn-floo...

At first I kept thinking that I was not the target audience and this was a shallow chick lit novel. Later, the heart of it got to me so I raised the rating. Interesting interwoven stories of high schoolers on the edge of Hollywood. I enjoyed it.

Over-all I really liked this book, I thought it was a good sequel to Spoiled. This book was a teen fiction book, and it was directly related to how teenagers act and how they feel about their lives at the moment, but instead of regular teenagers they're daughters of the most famous movie star in the world. I would recommend this book to teenage girls because it just relates to them a lot and it has a lot of relating to reality. In the end I really liked this book and I hope I can find more books...

I liked this even more than Spoiled! I liked the writing aspect of it, and I like that it wasn't as catty as Spoiled - that is, that the two girls were working together (mostly) rather than fighting. I also liked Max as a narrator. And Brady was a great love interest! Also the dialogue and writing was so witty. Ahhh I wish the Fuggirls would write more books!

Oh dear lord that was awful

I didn't realize that I was accidentally reading the second book first, although that kind of came out in the text with a few references. I enjoyed the characters, even if the book seemed a bit more aimed at tweens than The Royal We, which is what first introduced me to these authors.

i was just checking the release date on this. i'm kind of horrified that i typed "messy cocks" into amazon without blinking.in this companion novel to spoiled, the focus moves to max macormick, molly's green-haired best friend from the first book. unexpected circumstances find her ghost-writing brooke berlin's blog, so that brooke will be taken seriously in the business and max can earn money for an NYU writing program. but when they both fall for the same guy, max is tempted to reveal brooke's

This takes place after the events of Spoiled and is more of a companion novel than a sequel. Like Spoiled, there are two narrators. Instead of it being Brooke and her half-sister though, it's Brooke and Molly's best friend Max. Brooke decides that she needs to have a "blogographer," which is basically a ghostwriter for her blog. Said ghostwriter ends up being Max...which is interesting, because Brooke and Max hate each other. Of course, they end up getting along a lot better and also of course,

3.5 stars. I thought that this follow up to Spoiled was great, but maybe not as stellar. I still loved the writing, the mixing in of made up and real celebrities and celebrity lore, and the true heart buried beneath the Hollywood veneer. The story centers much more on Brooke and on Molly's best friend Max (Maxine). Brooke has decided that she wants to start a blog, but she needs a ghostwriter. Max steps in only because she desperately needs to escape her crummy job at a local trendy vegan restau...

An amazing book! It just surprises me what Hollywood is like.

After a rocky start in Spoiled, Brooke Berlin and her newly discovered half sister, Molly Dix, have settled into something like sisterly love, but the drama is far from over.Now that Brooke's caught a taste of fame and her movie star father's attention, she wants to launch a blog that will position her as the ultimate Hollywood insider. But between schoolwork, party-planning committee meetings, and spa treatments, she hardly has the time to write it herself...Enter Max McCormack, an aspiring aut...

1/9/2016Interestingly, on reread? I think I preferred this one to Spoiled from a story perspective, but Spoiled feels stronger somehow?? It's pretty bitchy at times, but that fits in well with the teen it-girl approach of the story. The characters are fun, but frustrating. The writing is a little generic, but still enjoyable. The plot is kind of ridiculous, but silly and pretty fun. It feels quite dated as far as YA goes, despite only being four years old. But it's fine. Forgettable. But fine. 4...

Leave it to the Fug Girls to write a book that I would usually not touch with a ten-foot pole--I mean, fashion and Hollywood? Really?--and make it hilarious AND relatable. Messy switches narrative between Max, a self-made outcast who dreams of writing at NYU, and Brooke Berlin, the wanna-be starlet daughter of one of Hollywood's biggest action heroes. Brooke schemes to extend her star power by starting a Hollywood insider blog, and hire Max to ghostwrite it. Predictably, things go askew. Heather...

the follow-up to spoiled, the debut YA novel by heather ckocks & jessica morgan, the ladies behind the go fug yourself blog. this is far from great literature that is soon to enter the canon, but it was definitely fun, funny, & clever. the plot focuses on max, the green-haired misanthropic daughter of the school headmistress. she dreams of attending writing school & needs to produce a writing sample for her application. unfortunately, this inspires major writer's block. to try to make money for

I love the Fug Girls and I enjoyed their first book (Spoiled) and I was ready to jump into a YA series after learning there would be a sequel. Messy was a valiant effort but it fell flat for me. The teenage dialogue was clunky and the character's histories were revealed so slowly that I still didn't have any connection to them until halfway through the book. It was a formulaic YA novel. And of course I will read the next one.

This book was so much fun. The characters were all complete people, not cardboard stereotypes, and the story was a delight to follow. Loved Max, Molly, the boys, and even Brooke.

I really enjoyed reading this book in a different point of view than the other book. On the other hand, though, it was not as good as the first book. It was hard to get hooked and read at home. It also doesn't necessarily carry on the story line from the first book.

My love of Spoiled is pure and unabashed. I will rhapsodize about the brilliance of that book to anyone who will listen. It is utterly delightful, chiefly because it never takes itself too seriously. The weird problem I noticed with Spoiled, however, is that although it is intended for young adults...it has not appealed to many of the actual young adults who read it. I had several students say they found it boring or slow, particularly in the beginning. I read it in about a day, so I have no rec...

Messy is the second book in the Spoiled series. Set six months after the events of Spoiled, Brooke Berlin decides to amp up her celebrity status by starting a blog about the rest of Hollywood’s celebrities – only to have a Ghostwriter (or should I say, Ghostblogger) do it for her.I read this a day after Spoiled as a ‘you survived your first week of school – you deserve a treat!’ type of thing. I had borrowed this a few days ago thinking it was a stand-alone novel. Alas, it wasn’t, so I bought Sp...

Green-haired alterna-girl Max MacCormack only goes to Colby Randall, a posh Hollywood prep school, because her mother is the principal. She's full of scorn for the rich and spoiled around her, and especially loathes that her mother forces her to take part in extra curricular events like planning the spring carnival. Max needs to earn money, and her current after school job is not working out as well as she expected. When she is offered insane amounts of money to ghost write Brooke Berlin's blog,...