Hollywood Is Like High School With Money by Zoey Dean

Hollywood Is Like High School With Money

by Zoey Dean

Twenty-four-year old Taylor Henning has just landed her dream job as an assistant at a major movie studio. But when her catty coworkers trick her into almost getting fired, she realises that the old saying 'Hollywood is like school with money' just may be true. The thing is, Taylor wasn't exactly a social butterfly in high school - how is she supposed to do any better the second time around? That's when she meets her boss's popular sixteen-year-old daughter Quinn and has an epiphany: maybe this teenager can teach her how to use her queen bee tactics to succeed in the popularity contest that Hollywood seems to be.
Quinn comes up with a plan to teach Taylor one lesson a week-everything from Always know more than your enemies to No matter what, it's *never* your fault. Things are going swimmingly until she's directed to steal her coworker Kylie's boyfriend, and something happens that's not in the game plan: Taylor falls for the guy. Now she must do the impossible: harnessing her inner mean girl while staying true to herself.

Reviewed by ibeforem on

3 of 5 stars

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I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, it wasn’t badly written. The pace is good, the characters are colorful (though a little stereotypical), and it’s a window into a world most people don’t know anything about. On the other hand, the "mean girl" stuff doesn’t sit well with me. The fact that Taylor resorts to those sorts of tactics was enough to sour any good feelings I formed about her at the beginning. Frankly, I thought her ending was a little more happy than she deserved. I think what it really means is that this particular vein of chick-lit is not for me.

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