Famous in Love

by Rebecca Serle

[Stephanie]

I picked up Famous in Love because I really enjoy the famous celebrity story line, so I was excited to jump into this one, expecting a light, fun read. But that's not really what I got. It was kind of boring.

Paige is an average teen girl who auditions for a movie that is based on a very popular book series called Locked. She gets the role as the main lead and is whisked away to Hawaii to film it. There she ends up falling for the two main boy leads and has to pretty much choose which one she wants to be with.

One thing that bothered me was that Paige, I think, is 17 years old. I would have thought that since she's not really considered an adult yet and that she's flying to Hawaii to film this movie, that one of her parents would have come with her or at least visit? But they don't. They just let her go off and be by herself with people she just met. I found that really strange and unbelievable.

I also skimmed a lot of the last half of the book, mostly because Paige seems to just tell us everything, rather than show it. So I skimmed a lot of the useless descriptions and details that seemed pointless to me or I just didn't care. I was reading the story for the romance and her being introduced to this world that she has never been in before, but there's really not a lot of that. It's mostly Paige telling us what happened that day on set, and then her being in her condo, or her being on the beach swimming, or her randomly running into Rainer or Jordan so conveniently. I had trouble following the days because it seemed like they got a LOT of days off shooting. We rarely get to read about her shooting the movie. It's mostly about her life OFF the set and her relationship with the people shooting the movie.

In the prologue, Paige tells us upfront that she made the wrong choice, between Jordan or Rainer. Then we are taken back to when she first auditioned, and then her meeting the two boys and her falling for both of them, etc. I would have really liked to have gone into the book without reading the prologue. Knowing that she 'made the wrong choice' kind of took away the enjoyment of my reading, and made it very obvious of who she chose. I mean, at first I was trying to figure it out and really was clueless, but as I read on it became very obvious, and then my interest dropped immensely because I knew what was going to happen, and I didn't like where it was headed.

I won't give away who she chooses, because I would say that's the real driving force of the book, but I was shipping her with the other guy SO HARD, and me realizing and knowing that she wasn't going to choose him kind of sucked and took away from it all. Maybe that's what the author wanted, but I wasn't happy. That may also be one reason why I skimmed a ton.

I did enjoy this book for the most part. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either, it was just meh. I think my feelings towards Paige choosing the wrong guy shows that I was a little invested in the story.