Title: Hollyweird
Publisher: Flux Books
Pub Date: May 08, 2012
ISBN: 9780738719252
Author: Terri Clark
“I won,” I whispered excitedly. “I. Won.”
“Oookay,” she said, looking unnerved by my abnormal ebullience. “Whadja win?”
“Only just a once in a lifetime, miraculous, I-still-can’t-believe-it dream come true. I, my dear best friend, am taking you” –I pointed to her – “to L.A. during summer break. You’re looking at the Grand Prize winner of EnterTEENment Magazine’s Meet Dakota Danvers Contest. We’re talking all expense paid trip, six sunny days and five balmy nights in Cali and we get to do a photo shoot with Dakota himself.” Pg5
Aly King feels like she has died and gone to heaven when she learns that she is the grand prizewinner of a date with the hottest movie star on the planet. She invites her best friend [and self-proclaimed word savant] Desi to take the trip of a lifetime from Colorado to Hollywood, California. The only hitch in the plan is that Aly’s spoiled and pampered older sister Missy must come along to chaperone the girls. Waiting at the airport is Jameson Dagon, a gorgeous, nineteen-year-old limo driver with chiseled cheekbones and an “adorable cleft chin”. He takes the girls to the Hollywood set of Paranormal P.I where the infamous hottie Dakota Danvers is waiting for them.
Things don’t turn out so great for the girls once they realize that Dakota IS too good to be true. Their first hint comes when Aly watches his mocha brown eyes turn into glowing balls of fire. Jameson confirms their fears and explains that Dakota is [get ready for this…] the son of Satan. He also reveals that Hollywood isn’t what is seems, and that his job is to figure out what’s going down before things get out of hand. The girls’ Hollywood dream date turns into a life or death mission to stop the son of Satan and save the world.
Hollweird is one of the most entertaining books I have ever read. I laughed throughout the whole book- and the hysterical one-liners kept me thoroughly entertained. From “Yo-ho-hell-o! Honk the hottie horn” to “It’s all verbit!’ the characters’ large personalities will completely entertain you. Jameson’s optimistic attitude inspires the pessimistic Aly, and together they create an absolutely angelic couple. Hollweird is the next hot teen read that everyone will be talking about!
