One complaint: The thing I like least about this series is the heavy-handedness of the it's-in-Hollywood aspect. By the end of this one, JoJo had grown on me enough to almost carry the series on her own (though to be fair, it's her interactions with Myla that really show her off best). And the two 'outsider' characters, JoJo and Jake, are really enjoyable. Birnbach? Never can even remember his name! - has enough backstory and personality to be compelling. Even a character like Ash - at first glance a personality-free pretty-boy in the mold of Ben Birnbaum. Sure, the plotlines are a lot more predictable than something like Gossip Girl, but overall, this was a pretty fun book. I would have liked more of Amelie (so endearing!) and a little less of Myla (boring and bitchy, though only her boyfriend plot - all her friend intrigue stuff was right up my alley). Though the lack of Anna and Ben certainly is a huge boost, I continue to genuinely enjoy the new characters in this one.

That's a shame, since we got ten books' worth of the original characters - and while ten books of Sam and Cammie was pretty enjoyable, ten books worth of Anna and Ben was sheer torture. I'm definitely worried the next A-List: Hollywood Royalty book will be the last in this series, there are a couple of developments in this one that point to that (not to mention the severely lagging sales figures). Unfortunately, as soon as I actually started reading it, rationing more or less ended - I was only able to make it last two days! Sigh. I let this one sit on my shelf for a few months, since at this point, all the series I love are in serious decline, and so I feel like I need to ration.

Sunset Boulevard by Zoey Dean