Book Blitz: Holly Hearts Hollywood by Kenley Conrad with Giveaway #ReadSwoonRepeat

4 star

Summary:

Holly Hearts Hollywood is the first book in a series.

Seventeen-year-old Holly Hart wants to be a star. She moves to Los Angeles from the small town of Cedar Junction, only to hear she’s too fat and ugly to be a famous singer.

But when Shell Shocked Records looks past Holly’s plus-size and less-than-graceful-personality to offer her a recording contract, Holly cannot believe her good fortune. On closer inspection, however, the the record execs want Holly to do all the singing, and a thinner and more beautiful girl, Lacey, would lip-sync and get all the credit. Holly goes for it because after all, she wanted to sing.

Contractually bound to secrecy, Holly is more than happy to sit backstage and write in her journal while Lacey shimmies in the limelight and basks in the fame. Before she knows it, Holly is friends with Serena, the pop-star daughter of a music-mogul, flirting with an intern, and developing a strange half-friendship with Lacey.

When Grayson Frost, the biggest country star in America, and coincidentally, a former school bully begins dating Lacey, Holly hopes that he won’t recognize or torment her.

Through a series of embarrassing and weird events, Holly gets to know Grayson and learns that he is much nicer and more mature than he was four years ago. Holly is horrified when she starts falling for him. When Grayson admits he fell for Lacey’s voice, what is a girl to do when she can’t legally tell the truth at the moment when the truth matters the most?


From the synopsis alone, I was already confident that I would like this book. The plot really interested me because it's something so very familiar that it's actually quite refreshing. The story is told in a diary/journal type way, and I think that this suited the overall sweet personality of the main character. 

I gave this 4 stars just because I didn't like how the story ended. I just want this book to end in a way where everything is resolved and won't leave me frustrated. Don't get me wrong, I like my plot twists and surprises and angst as much as the next reader, but this book that just felt really sweet and romantic had no business having that kind of ending. Even so, that was not a deal breaker and if there is a second book, which I hope there is, I would be glad to read it.

Kenley Conrad did a great job with constructing an emotional connection between the characters and readers.

In conclusion, this book was great! It's cute, light and swoony. What more can I ask, right? I would definitely recommend this to all YA lovers out there!
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Holly Hearts Hollywood
by Kenley Conrad
Publication Date: September 2014
Publisher: Swoon Romance



From nine to five, Kenley is a home insurance agent. At all other hours of the day she is a young adult author, singer, dancer, cat lady, fangirl, wife, bookworm, and internet enthusiast. Her favorite pastimes include crying over really good books, riding with her husband on their motorcycle, and binge-watching seasons of television shows. When she’s not working or writing, she likes to perform in local community musical theatre productions.

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What We Normally Do on a Random Saturday (Beryl & Audrey)

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As you all know we're sisters, which means we live together, sleep together, get to annoy each other, dance together and all that jazz. That also means that  we can easily document whatever the other is doing. And we definitely have a routine. In this post, we will be showing you guys what we do on a normal Saturday. Basically, it's a day in our lives blog post. 

Let's start with when we wake up.
9:30 to 9:45- Obviously this is when we wake up. Since it's our summer vacation, we sleep past midnight, and wake up late. We wouldn't be up by this time if we weren't going out. Yes, we are lazy creatures. There is no denying this fact.

9:45 to 10:00- Beryl allots this time checking out notifications, instagram, twitter, pageviews and comments. Meanwhile, Audrey spends this time lying down, wrapped in the blankets like a burritto, wishing that it was night again.

10:00 to 10:30- It's breakfast time!!! YAY. We eat whatever's on the table, providing it's edible.

10:30 to 11:00-  Beryl usually uses half of this time to lie down again and the other half picking out her clothes for the day. Audrey uses this time to read on her iPad and wait impatiently until Beryl is finished picking out her clothes so that she can pick out her own.

11:00 to 11:45: Beryl takes a bath for around 15 minutes. After taking a bath, she does whatever her weird mind directs her to. Audrey takes a 30-minute bath because she prides herself on being clean and smelling good not because she's just slow and wants to irritate people. Obviously, Audrey wrote this part. And she does not regret anything.

11:45 to 12:00- Um, we lie down again? I don't really know what we do at this time. Seriously no idea. Maybe a wizard is robbing us of our memories or something. Why would they be robbing us of our memories, you ask? Well, maybe, they're taking us to their secret world and showing us their magic way. But then why would they take our memories if they take the time to show us their ways, you wonder? Well, we haven't gotten that far yet.

12:00 to 12:45- Food time again!! We LOOOVVEEEEE food. 

12:45 to 5:00- It's either we watch tv series all day, lie down all day, sleep all day, go the grocery or mall. We don't know if it's just us, but we love going to groceries because we get to buy food. HAHA. Who doesn't love food? 

5:00 to 6:00- Watching YouTube videos. Recently we've been addicted to YouTube. There are a lot of great YouTubers. ( Tyler Oakley, Troye Sivan, Zoella, Caspar Lee, Joe Sugg, Alfie, Joey Graceffa, etc...) Basically, their gang. I wish there was a vidcon in Manila. Comment down below your favorite YouTubers! =) 

6:00 to 7:00: DINNERRR. WEEEEEE. They say that you should eat a lot during breakfast, but we're the complete opposite. We love dinner time, and that's the time we eat a LOT. Which will probably lead to us getting fat, but whatever.

7:00 to 8:00- We shower. Again. Because we are addicted to being clean and also because this is what people normally do. We bloggers are not so different. We eat and sleep and go grocery shopping. Just like you guys.

8:00 to 10:00- This is the time when we start panicking about what we'll post today (well, Beryl panics and Audrey watches her tv series). This is also the time when we start thinking to ourselves: If only we'd done this earlier, we wouldn't have to do it now when all we wanna do is watch our tv shows/read our favorite books. Usually, Beryl figures out what we need to do and tells Audrey to do it while Audrey glares at her for making her stop watching her show.

10:00 to 10:30- We'll publish the blog post around this time and share it so that people know we exist. We then wonder what we will post tomorrow but won't really think of anything because by this time, our brains will be useless jelly.

10:30 to11:00- We reply to emails and see if there are any comments awaiting moderation. That's like a fancy way if saying: "Do you approve of this statement, master?" We're not making sense, are we?

11:00 to 12:00- Audrey resumes watching her tv series. Beryl continues watching youtube videos and laughing to herself like a crazy lady. 

12:00 to Whatever- Well, we sleep again and dream about bunnies and marshmallows and chocolate and stuff. Although, Audrey hasn't dreamt of anything in a long while. Is that an indication that something bad's gonna happen? I hope not.

So that's our day! We think we left out the toothbrush-ing and... other things. We definitely do that but we're pretty sure that no one wants to know about that so be grateful that we have spared you from this horrible fate.

What did you think about our totally normal day? Anything you wanna say? Just leave a comment!

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