Faking 19

Name: Faking 19
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Alyson Noël
ISBN: 9781427212115

Author: Alyson Noël

Narrator: Katie Schorr

Unabridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 02/15/2011

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Family, Girls & Women

Synopsis

On the surface, 17-year-old Alex has it made; she is beautiful and smart. Plus, she's best friends with M., the absolute most popular girl in school. Feeling bored with their fancy Orange County suburban town, Alex and M. decide to check out L.A.'s glitzy nightlife scene.

Pretending to be 19, Alex and M. meet Trevor and Connor, two rich older guys. At first, Alex can't believe her luck--she gets to hang out at hip Hollywood houseparties and downtown L.A. clubs. These weekend trips into the city become the perfect distraction for Alex, who is secretly struggling with her failing senior year grades, her absentee father, and her clueless mom.

But, after the initial fun wears off for Alex, she is forced to reevaluate her friendship with M., who is hiding some secrets beneath her perfect Burberry-clad exterior...in Alyson Noël's Faking 19.

About Alyson Noël

#1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noël has had 9 books on the NYT bestseller list and more than 8 million copies in print. Her books have been translated into 36 languages and have made numerous US and international bestseller lists.Born and raised in Orange County, California, she’s lived in both Mykonos and Manhattan and is now settled back in Southern California. You can learn more about her books at alysonnoel.com.

About Katie Schorr

Katie Schorr's audiobook credits include narrating the novels in Alyson Noel's bestselling Immortals series – Evermore, Blue Moon, Shadowland, and Dark Flame. Of her work on the series, AudioFile magazine has said, "Narrator Katie Schorr has a wonderfully raspy, youthful voice, which she puts to good effect on the cast of teenaged characters."Schorr’s one-woman show, Take Me. Seriously., ran for six months at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and she performs throughout New York in new works at The Ensemble Studio Theater and Ars Nova, among other theaters. She has appeared on VH1's Best Week Ever and co-stars in the web series Head in the Oven with Saturday Night Live actor Bill Hader. She is the co-creator of Yoga Partners: A Web Series.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 24, 2012

Reviewed by Amber Gibson for TeensReadToo.com Alyson Noël took me for a joyride in FAKING 19 into the oh-so-fabulous, wild party life of two beautiful high school seniors in SoCal. At first glance, Alex may seem like she has it all. She's pretty, smart, and her best friend is the most popular girl at......more

Goodreads review by Jolene on October 30, 2011

This reminds me of McCafferty with her use of language. I really like McCafferty - Jessica Darling's books are like Seinfeld, but teenage girl. To me. When I was about halfway through this, I read the other reviews. Anyone who gave this a bad review, doesn't appreciate voice. I found it realistic, whi......more

Goodreads review by Demi on May 22, 2013

Unlike most people, I actually found this book in my library as part of a two-novels-in-one book called 'Keeping Secrets.' The blurb was as follows: 'We usually tell our best friends everything. Our crushes, our embarrassing stories, our secrets-but sometimes there are truths so deep and dark that we......more

Goodreads review by Fred on September 26, 2012

I listened to this on audiobook, and the narrator's voice was so perfect, it really captured the right tone, and voice is everything to this book. A sweet and slightly after school specialish story of a girl whose slow social and academic drowning might be a cry for attention from her remote, absent......more

Goodreads review by Salma on August 05, 2016

This book evidently disappointed me to the core. After reading it,I just couldn't believe I had done that. I really didn't get the whole story. I mean,yes I understand the author was trying to give us a breakdown of the dangers of peer pressure and leaving a ragged life but then I was expecting somethi......more

Quotes

“Deliciously funny and irreverent. I couldn't put this down!” —Niki Burnham, author of Royally Jacked

“I loved Faking 19...A totally convincing look at one teenager's broken world, and how she reaches inside herself to fix it.” —Joe Weisberg, author of 10th Grade

“Gloriously, outrageously funny. . .” —Jackie Fischer, author of An Egg on Three Sticks

“Alex and M., despite their foolish mistakes, are fresh and endearing characters.” —teenreads.com