L.A. Candy starts out excrutiatingly slow. Honestly, I never even cared about what was happening to any of the characters until the last 30 pages. Why did I stick with it? Because the e-book version was 209 pages. I can read 209 pages of anything. The negative points: 1.) The product placements scattered throughout the book. I swear Ms. Conrad must have scored some kind of an endorsement deal by meantioning clubs, restaurants, stores you name it. It's pretty common in the beginning of the book but drops off drastically after that. 2.) The use of internet/Text speech. I get that this book is catered to the 17+ age demographic but I actually found it annoying reading acronyms such as BFF & WTF in a book. 3.) The characters seem to do a 180 degree turn in personality about 1/4 of the way through. It was confusing to have them change that quickly, that soon in the book.
Other than the negative I did end up liking the book. I was on the fence of whether I would continue on with the series but I think I will give the next one a shot. I will say this in the positive side. I did watch a few episodes of "The Hills" and while you can tell that the show was setup and was toted as "Reality" this book gave an insight into how real a reality show is. The first rule of writing a book is "Write what you know" and clearly Ms. Conrad did that here.
Other than the negative I did end up liking the book. I was on the fence of whether I would continue on with the series but I think I will give the next one a shot. I will say this in the positive side. I did watch a few episodes of "The Hills" and while you can tell that the show was setup and was toted as "Reality" this book gave an insight into how real a reality show is. The first rule of writing a book is "Write what you know" and clearly Ms. Conrad did that here.
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