Spoiled is about a Park Avenue princesses caught in a glamorous panic of wealthy-people problems (status, sex scandals, where to summer) and using wealthy-people medication (gossip, Barneys, Grey Goose with a twist of Valium) to keep their despair as recessed as the lighting in their nurseries. **SPOILER**Molly Dix is a regular girl in Indiana, reading celebrity magazines and running and going to school and coping with her mom’s illness, until her mother, days away from death due to cancer, reve...

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...

4/8/2016On reread, I'm downgrading this from 4 stars to 3.5 stars, and to be honest? It's getting a bonus half star because it's written by the Fug Girls and it's a lot like reading their blog. I've become a lot more critical as a reader in the past four years. On reread, it took me a while to get into this one. It's funny, yes. But it's also a little bit...generic? Maybe it's because YA has come a long way in the past four years, or maybe it's just because there are seven million YA books out t...

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

I found this book really easy to read although i did take my time to finish it because it is quite big.I found that the tittle connected to me and i was expecting some kind of teenage princess.I also thought the blurb really summed up the story really well.My favourite quote is probably between the two main characters at a magazine interview."i was nearly reluctant to leave the perfect plush dress and felt that i was going to hug it good bye but than i was whisked away to make-up".I think this r...

Dear Heather Cocks,Whaddup with the ending?Best Regards, Claire

I love gofugyourself.com, so when the writers of that blog announced they were writing a YA book, I was totally in. I knew it wasn't going to be high class literature, and instead was going to be my favorite kind of YA summer read: vapid high school drama that involved fashion, bitchiness and Hollywood. That's exactly what I got: a superfast read that let me escape my boring world for a while. It's not a great book, but it's amusing and kept me reading while drinking a fruity cocktail.I'd actual...

If this book were a dress, Chloe Sevigny would wear it.

I have had this book on my tbr for a bit now and love the way the cover is done. I have read a few other stories with a similar theme but I still really enjoyed the progression of the characters and it almost felt a bit like a guilty pleasure. I was into it.Good Read!

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...

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...

I received this ARC from the publisher, along with an ARC of Sweetly. Which one to read first? I love the Go Fug Yourself blog so I'd been hearing about Spoiled for some time now. This isn't my favorite genre of YA, but I was still interested to see how the bloggers' snarkiness would play out in novel form.Brooke Berlin has just discovered that thanks to her famous actor father Brick Berlin's fooling around, she has a half-sister about the same age. Unluckily for her, Midwesterner Molly Dix has

I’ve never been particularly girly – at the age of five, my favorite color was green and I spent the majority of my time collecting bugs in the backyard and bringing them into the house (much to my mother’s dismay). Not much has changed since then – I don’t own a single piece of designer clothing, have barely figured out that mascara goes on one’s eyelashes, and find myself routinely shoveling manure at the barn. Therefore, I was well aware going into this book that I might not be the happiest c...

Let me start off, in the spirit of full disclosure, by saying that Jessica and I go way back. Way back. Way, way back. The kind of way back *cough*freshmen year of college*cough* that knows where the bodies are buried... That said, even if I didn't know Jessica personally, the international success of her and Heather's celebrity fashion blog Go Fug Yourself, a snarkilicious guilty pleasure of over four million readers a month, plus the Fug Girls' front row presence at every fashion week from New...

Spoiled is written by the women who run Go Fug Yourself (Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan), so when I started reading it, I knew there would be snark, some romantika (I have no idea why I typed it like that, it just came out), and general fluff.Spoiled does have all of those things, and yes, maybe it is a bit cliche, but it's really an enjoyable beach read. No, I'm not dying to read the (apparent) sequel. No, I didn't cry...But I did laugh and was generally happy with the book. And it's what I w...

Overall, great book for teenage girls interested in social media or other social platforms. I first encountered this book and with my love for science fiction I was a bit skeptical that it would be a cheesy teenage girl story, but when I started reading it I could barely put the book down and had to tear myself away when my eyes were straining to go to sleep. Very engaging story and it never really has those parts where you just try to read through them fast so you can get onto the interesting p...

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

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...

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...

I enjoyed The Royal We so much I decided to make this my next treadmill book. ******Well, this was definitely not up to the same standard as The Royal We, but it was intended to be no more than a YA trifle and that's exactly what it was. Teenage Molly Dix's mother dies and she learns that her father is matinee idol Brick Berlin, so instead of living with her grandparents, whom she's known all her life, she departs Indiana to live with Berlin and his teenage daughter Brooke who hates Molly on s...