Hollywood Kids by Jackie Collins

Hollywood Kids is an awesome book.  It has Hollywood drama, drugs, murder and sex.  The best you could have in a book.

Alright, the story is about the lives of these Hollywood Star's kids and how they live their lives.  There's a group of friends who has been friends forever.

Cheryl and Grant runs an escort business.  Cheryl got into it so she could live without using her rich parents as a bank account.  Grant, the guy she has always had romantic feelings for but always stayed friends, joined her in the business by testing girls out and supplying drugs for some of the clients.

Bobby wants to live outside his father's shadow and becomes one of the hottest, best, biggest actor and director.  At the end of the story his big shot father had to work for him.

Jordanna's parents were both amazing good looking actors until her mother committed suicide...along with her brother.  She became a wild child.  Once she got really upset with her father, she moved out and found a job.  That job was as Bobby's personal assistant.  Then next thing you know she lands the lead female role in the movie and also falling in love with Bobby, as she did him.

Then there was this guy name Mac who is another big shot movie director, but to only know that his New York life was NOT in the press.  His, recently found out, father was a mob boss who asked him to hire his newphew who killed a girl on his set.  The guy name was Zane.  Once he gets out of jail, he decicdes to hunt down all the women who testifed.  Including Jordanna and Cheryl.  The end of the story gets even better!



I suggest this book for the winter, when you're taking a hot bubble bath.  This book will have you wanting to read more and more and more!

The Cottage by Danielle Steel

This book was ok. I love most of Danielle Steel's books, but this one was alright. It wasn't that long, but it felt like a five hundred paged book. It didn't really catch my full attention, and took me forever to finally finished.
So the story is about a handsome old actor named Coop who was charming, handsome, elegant, and immature. He never wanted to grow up. He dated woman who were one third of his age, or even younger than that. He spent is money as fast as it came, and even faster. And his pride was so much in the way, he refused to play a father in any movie, he wanted to continue to play the playboy. His accountant Abe is riding him about how fast he spends his money, and that he needs to stop before he loses his prize possession, his Cottage. (Now this Cottage is huge. It has the main wing, the guest wing, and a gate house. Has a beautiful garden, a pool, and a tennis court.) His accountant his assistant (who ends up getting married and leaving) finally talked him into renting out the guest wing and the gatehouse so he could catch up on some of his debts.
Now there is this man who had a family. His name is Mark. His wife leaves him for another man, and takes the kids to New York. He's depressed and Abe, his friend and co-worker (and yes Coop's accontant) talks Mark into selling his old home full of memories that cannot be relived and moving into Coop's guestwing.
Another man, name James lost the love of his life, Maggie, to cancer. He ends up moving into the gatehouse at Coop's Cottage.
James and Mark ends up forming a friendship.
Coop meets a charming young woman named Alex who was a doctor for premies. (Mind you, Coop HATES kids). The hit it off and start dating for four to five months. During that time he finds out he has a forty year old daughter, Taryn who went through a divorce herself.
At the end of the book, James gets into a car accident and his mother Valerie flies out to see him. When Abe tells Coop how bad his debts are, Coop hits realitity and finally grows up. Mark and Taryn falls in love. James and Alex falls in love. And most shocking, Coop and Valerie falls in love.






My Opinion


This book could've been better. I rate it a 2 1/2 out of 5 stars. I know for a fact Danielle Steel could've done better. But I like the story line about how a man with peter pan syndrome finally grows up and finally conquored some fears. And I love the lovely dovey, 'I started off a heartbroken wreck nd fell in love with another heartbroken wreck' endings. Well you tell me how you feel about the book. Leave a comment or email me at respondingtojoe@aol.com

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

This book is really good! I, of course, watch the shows faithfully, so I decided to read this book. I enjoyed it. It's sort of like the show, yet different. It's like a different drama but the same.

So the book is basically about how they introduce the secret and mysterious "A" into Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer's lives.
Aria had just moved back Rosewood from Iceland. She doesn't want to go back because of not only the memories of her father's affair with one of his students, but also her old best friend, Alison's, disappearance. After dropping off her brother to practice, she goes into a bar to clear her head and meets a really cute guy at the bar. She makes out with him in the girls bathroom. Low and behold, when she went to English class *BOOM* the cute guy she made out at the bar was her ENGLISH TEACHER. Now Aria tries to figure a way to make them work. She tells no one of course, but A sends her a text letting her know that she knew too.
Emily is having a difficult time being the best child she could be and wishes to rebel. Still hoping Alison shows up after 3 years, she burdens her life by doing her parents wishes like her littler sister who actually enjoys it. The new girl Maya moves next door where Alison's family once lived and now slowly finds out that not only is she NOT into swimming she's not into her boyfriend Ben. Emily confesses to Maya how she felt about Alison. Emily is slowly discovering she's different then the other girls and A is there to remind her of how she kissed "her" way back in 7th grade.
Hanna lost weight since Alison's disappearance and have been trying to have Alison approve of her. She finally dates the guy of her dreams who totally dumps her at Noel Khan's back to school party. She gets into not only stealing jewerly at Tiffany's trouble but also grad theft auto and she gets a message letting her know that A knew. Hanna looses weight not the right way, but gaining an eating disorder that she still tries to fight against the urge. Being hot, thin, and popluar is way harder then Hanna expects.
Spencer lives in a perfectionist family and always tries her hardest to out do her older sister Mellisa her rival. Spencer not only had made out with Mellisa's exboyfriend Ian, but also makes out with her current boyfriend Wren. Mellisa catches them in the act and gets very upset and tell her parents. Everybody shuns out Spencer. Trying to be perfect when you're not is very hard. Poor Spencer, and to make matters worse A reminds her not to "covet" her sister's boyfriends.
At the end of the book the girls all find out that Alison is dead and was buried in her backyard. Jenna and Toby was back in town for some reason. At the end of the funeral, and four of the girls get the same text from A ' "I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A '


My Opinion

This book is AWESOME! I rate it a 4 out of 5 stars. I think the author did a great job discribing not only four main characters, but also the family memebers and the friends, and giving a story behind the story. When you read it's like you're there and you wanna know more. You also feel like you've been living in Rosewood all your life, like most of the people in the story. I hope you enjoy the book and tell me your thoughts on it. Email me @ respondingtojoe@aol.com or leave a comment.