Folks! I just watched the first episode of Loch & Ness and oh my god! That was some QUALITY television. They've amped up the chemistry of the books to a frankly absurd level. Every time Jayden and Fang (aka Rob Hennings and Nathan O'Donnell) are on-screen together my laptop overheats...
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When Delilah meets Sawyer Saffitz (son of Anya Saffitz, aka Hollywood royalty), she becomes hooked on a decade-old scandal. In her quest for the truth, Delilah uncovers blogposts written by the mysterious “gottiewrites” and is soon caught up in a world of greed, fandom conspiracy theories … and murder. And the deeper Delilah digs, the more dangerous it becomes – because someone is willing to kill to hide the truth.
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If you like a young adult novel with a twisty turny ending you will love this book.
The main character is Delilah. She is a teenager who wants to be an actress and who loves true crime stories. When a school audition with Sawyer, the son of famous parents, goes embarrassingly wrong, Delilah gets a taste of what it is like to be splashed all over social media for the wrong reasons.
A few years earlier Sawyer's famous mother, Anya, stars in a television series when one of her co-actors is murdered in real life, and another co-actor is imprisoned for his murder. Delilah and Sawyer decide to investigate the crime together which leads them into some devastating realisations.
The book alternates between Delilah's perspective, blog posts and forum messages. It is an interesting format and easy to get caught up in the various messages that were being posted.
It made for gripping reading about the cult of celebrity, fame and fandom. It was a quick read as it was fairly addictive. I very much wanted to see where this book was heading and it had a great twist at the end.
I highly recommend this for a young adult audience.
ISBN: 978 1406397390
Publisher: Walker Books
Formats: e-book, audio and paperback
No. of Pages: 320 (paperback)
About the Author:
Wren James is the Carnegie-longlisted British author of many Young Adult novels as ‘Lauren James’, including Last Seen Online, Green Rising, The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker and The Quiet at the End of the World. Amazon MGM Studios is developing The Loneliest Girl in the Universe as a feature film. Joe Roth and Jeffrey Kirschenbaum will produce the film alongside Katherine Langford.
They are a RLF Royal Fellow and the story consultant on Netflix’s Heartstopper (Seasons 2 and 3). Season 3 will guest star Jonathan Bailey, playing a role created by Wren.
Wren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League, editor of the anthology Future Hopes: Hopeful stories in a time of climate change, and a member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability Committee. They work as a consultant on climate storytelling for museums, production companies, major brands and publishers, with a focus on optimism and hope. They run a Queer Writers group in Coventry.
Their books have sold over two hundred thousand copies worldwide in seven languages. The Quiet at the End of the World was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and STEAM Children’s Book Award.
Wren’s writing has been described as ‘gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘a strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly.
Wren was born in 1992, and has a Masters degree from the University of Nottingham, where they studied Chemistry and Physics. They have taught creative writing for Coventry University, WriteMentor, and Writing West Midlands. Follow them on Instagram @laurenelizjames.
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(media courtesy of the author's website https://wrenjames.co.uk/)
(all opinions are my own)
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