Elimination Night

The thinnest of thinly-veiled tell-alls, the writing is a little on the heavy-handed side, and reads less like a novel and more like the cathartic morning pages of a miserable American Idol staffer. I personally had hoped for a little more finesse in the storytelling, but I doubt there are many peop......more

So sad. I had hoped for something so much better. Something along the lines of "The Devil Wears Prada" or "The Nanny Diaries". But, (sigh) no. I got a book that tried to hard to be charming and funny. Instead, for me, it fell short. And the sad thing, it could have been so so so much better. The firs......more

Like the reality shows that it skewers, readers cannot help but feel that they are being (poorly) scammed by the "anonymous" author of this book that really tries way too hard to make you believe that you're really reading a true tell-all thinly veiled as fiction. Do these shows truly hide the exit......more

This book intrigued me when I first noticed it at the library. The cover is eye-catching, and the premise is interesting, at least for an ex-American Idol viewer like myself, especially the whole Anonymous author who was allegedly an insider on the show. So I had to give it a try. I can't say I was......more

So this book is written by Anonymous, the reason being given on the back cover, that the book is “so hilariously accurate about the inner workings of the talent show machine that it had to be written anonymously”. And the book does seem like it could be accurate about that sort of stuff, although ar......more