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Messy

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By Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

By Jessica Morgan

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Sometimes life gets Messy.

When sixteen-year-old Brooke Berlin catches a taste of fame and her movie-star father’s attention, she decides it’s time to take her career to the next level–by launching a blog that will position her as a Hollywood “It Girl” who tells it like it is. But between schoolwork, shopping, and spray-tan appointments, she hardly has the time to write it herself…

Enter green-haired outsider Max McCormack, an aspiring author with a terrible after-school job pushing faux meat on the macrobiotic masses. Max loathes the celebrity scene almost as much as she dislikes Brooke, but wooed by an impressive salary, Max reluctantly agrees to play Brooke’s ghost-blogger — and the site takes off. How long will their lie last? Can the girls work together to stay on top, or will the truth come out and ruin everything they’ve built?

Along with an entourage of fame-hungry starlets, scruffy rocker wannabes, and sushi-scarfing socialites, the case of Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan’s dazzling debut, Spoiled, are back for another adventure in Tinseltown.

  • Praise for Messy:"I love the way Heather and Jessica write. They're so funny, and so fashion-y, which is incredibly rare."
    Mindy Kaling, Emmy-nominated writer, actress, and New York Times bestselling author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
  • "This companion novel to Spoiled is a treat.... there are enough witty observations and laugh-out-loud lines to make this about as much fun as you can have reading a book... an engaging, well-plotted story."
    VOYA
  • "Satirizing Hollywood is a time-honored literary pastime, but timely satirical touches keep things fresh...For most of the lowlife celebrities skewered, fame will be justly fleeting, but this novel should have a longer shelf life, thanks to a cast of complex characters who offer ample evidence that, F. Scott Fitzgerald notwithstanding, the rich and famous are like you and me."
    Kirkus
  • "This engaging, entertaining follow-up companion to Spoiled (2011) features plenty of snark, style, and Hollywood-centric satire, but also sympathy for the girls as they navigate familiar issues like wanting parental approval and pursuing their dreams."
    Booklist
  • "This story of hidden identities and love triangles is a fun and fast read... All of the characters have well-developed personalities, and teens will want to be along for any future adventures."
    SLJ

On Sale
Jun 5, 2012
Page Count
368 pages
Publisher
Poppy
ISBN-13
9780316201810

Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

About the Author

Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan are the creators of the Internet’s wittiest, longest-standing celebrity fashion blog, Go Fug Yourself, which made Entertainment Weekly‘s Must List and the Guardian‘s list of 50 Most Powerful Blogs. They are the authors of The Royal We as well as two young adult novels, Spoiled and Messy, and have written for publications ranging from New York magazine to Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, W magazine, and Glamour.

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