Spoiled, Heather Cocks
Spoiled, Heather Cocks
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Spoiled

Author: Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan

Narrator: Kathleen McInerney

Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2012


Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Molly Dix has just discovered that her biological father is Brick Berlin, world-famous movie star and red-carpet regular. Intrigued (and a little terrified) by her Hollywood lineage, Molly moves to Los Angeles and plunges headfirst into the deep of Beverly Hills celebrity life. Just as Molly thinks her life couldn't get any stranger, she meets Brooke Berlin, her gorgeous, spoiled half sister, who welcomes Molly to la-la land with a smothering dose "sisterly love"...but in this town, nothing is ever what it seems.

Set against a world of Redbull-fuelled stylists, tiny tanned girls, popped-collar guys, and Blackberry-wielding publicists, Spoiled is a sparkling debut from the writers behind the viciously funny celebrity blog GoFugYourself.com

Heather Cocks is a die-hard sports fan, a Leo, an ex-reporter, a Notre Dame grad, a dual citizen of the U.S. and U.K., a sandwich enthusiast, and a former producer for America's Next Top Model. Jessica Morgan is a Southern California native and UCLA alumna who has produced reality shows ranging from Growing Up Gotti to the docu-series 30 Days. She collects shoes, books, and unpaid parking tickets. Both ladies live in Los Angeles and watch almost everything on the CW.

Together, Heather and Jessica skewer celebrity fashion crimes on their popular blog, Go Fug Yourself, which draws millions of monthly readers and made Entertainment Weekly's Must List. Their dispatches from the front rows are routinely the most-read pieces on New York magazine's Web site during Fashion Week. This is their first novel for young adults.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Pragya on December 02, 2011

Well, I didn't think much of the book frankly and wouldn't have read it if I hadn't been gifted it. The first word, line, page didn't prompt me to read further. But I still give the book 2 stars because it has a plot and there are no grammar or other issues, so it is writing! Never mind the plot is......more

Goodreads review by Carol on June 28, 2012

It’s unfortunate, but not surprising, I guess, that there is a backlash to Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan’s Spoiled, a novel that is a fun and important read. Important? Yes, because as a YA novel these keen observers of the nexus of celebrity and fashion took a subject matter that fascinates youn......more

Goodreads review by Arianne on December 10, 2012

I think I just need to stop reading fiction for myself. I have so much more fun that way. Spoiled was the book that my 14-year-old tutoring student picked out for her English assignment, so there was nothing for me to do but saddle up and spend a few hours in her world: celebrities, makeup, fashions,......more

Goodreads review by Olivia on September 13, 2015

I’ve never been particularly girly – at the age of five, my favorite color was green and I spent the majority of my time collecting bugs in the backyard and bringing them into the house (much to my mother’s dismay). Not much has changed since then – I don’t own a single piece of designer clothing, h......more

Goodreads review by Kate on May 13, 2011

I received this ARC from the publisher, along with an ARC of Sweetly. Which one to read first? I love the Go Fug Yourself blog so I'd been hearing about Spoiled for some time now. This isn't my favorite genre of YA, but I was still interested to see how the bloggers' snarkiness would play out in nov......more


Quotes

"Spoiled is soapy, funny and full of the Fug Girls' trademark Hollywood snark. I want to read the sequel NOW."

Megan McCafferty, New York Times bestselling author of Bumped and the Jessica Darling series

"Followers of the authors' take-no-prisoners, celebrity-fashion blog will expect the satire. What surprises are moments of emotional depth-Brooke and Molly especially are rounded individuals-in this obsessively readable, smartly subversive take on lifestyles of the rich and narcissistic and their many enablers, from top stars to trashy-tabloid bottom feeders."Kirkus

"Fashion bloggers Cocks and Morgan, best known for their Web site Go Fug Yourself, bring humor, heart, and formidable writing skills to this exuberant debut. . . The fashion knowledge, eye for Hollywood ridiculousness, and wicked humor that the authors are known for is on full display."—Publishers Weekly