True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet
By Lola Douglas
268 Pages
5/5

The cover of the book is what caught my attention at Chapters. It was so sparkly! Well, at least the star was. I think I got a little overexcited about the book at the time, but.. that's okay. This one seemed really similar to Secrets of My Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita, but there were also many differences. They were both mainly about popular, young Hollywood celebrities going undercover and going to high school. One of the differences is that this book is written in diary/journal format. The other book was a first person narrative, .. but I still loved both of them!

Morgan Carter is a recovering drug addict, and her mom is sending her out of the spotlight for a while. Morgan hates the idea, but what can she do? She's given a completely different identity - her new name is Claudia Miller. When she meets some new friends, she horrified by how everybody believes tabloids and has so many opinions about celebrities. But she can't blow her cover and tell them the truth that she knows about, right? Yeah. She gets into trouble when she's making up all these lies and excuses to everyone, especially a guy named Eli. Eli obviously likes her, and she's lying to him so much. Claudia can't believe it, but she keeps doing it. She can't even remember all the lies she's told, but she has to go with it. It's not like she would go up to Eli and tell her that her dad didn't actually strangle her dog and break the dog's neck. .. She told him that.

Will Morgan, err.. Claudia, like high school more than Hollywood? Will she ditch Hollywood for high school? Or will she return to the spotlight?

I loved this book. The beginning was very similar to Secrets of My Hollywood Life, but as the book went on, they were had more and more differences. This book was enjoyable, and it was worth buying! (Even if it's only to look at the sparkles every once in a while..)

*Jessica
*Would have been 99 hours
*Can be published in a teen newsletter