Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss by Kasie West

Publication Date: February 5, 2019
Publisher: HarperTeen
Rating: ★★★

Lacey Barnes has dreamt of being in a movie for as long as she can remember. However, while her dream did include working alongside the hottest actor in Hollywood, it didn’t involve having to finish up her senior year of high school at the same time she was getting her big break. Although that is nothing compared to Donavan, the straight-laced student her father hires to tutor her, who is a full-on nightmare.

As Lacey struggles to juggle her burgeoning career, some on-set sabotage, and an off-screen romance with the unlikeliest of leading men, she quickly learns that sometimes the best stories happen when you go off script.

Review:

There isn’t a Kasie West book I haven’t read.

Every time I pick one up, I don’t even need to know what’s going on. I can gather it from the first few sentences and that’s why I love her books so much. I love the fluff in all of her books because she writes it so flawlessly. This book was interesting and threw me for a little bit of a loop. I didn’t expect to hear a story about teens on a movie set. It was cool to see the behind-the-scenes perspective.

I really enjoyed the characters. Lacey (what a GREAT name for a main character, haha) and Donovan. They were very similar and easy to like. They were stubborn, sweet, and driven to be better all the same.

One thing that I could complain about was the speed of this book. I feel like I was sitting in traffic that would open a little bit and then slam on its brakes. It was fast paced and then would dramatically slow down to the point where I was questioning if I wanted to skip over that part.

The other thing that I couldn’t really get into was the amount of sabotage that this book had in it. It kept me entertained in the beginning to see who it was going to be, but when nothing kept happening, I was beginning to get frustrated. I was wondering and wondering and it got old fast.

Overall, Kasie West books are always winners to me. If you are a young adult genre lover, then you need to read her books. There’s a lot of them so buckle down!