FICTION

According to a Source

304p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne. May 2017. Tr $25.99. ISBN 9781250106797.
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Ella Warren loves her job as a freelance undercover spy for The Life, an online Los Angeles gossip mag. She spends her evenings in swanky restaurants and nightclubs, searching for a juicy scoop for the morning edition, and her best friend, Holiday Hall, a gorgeous British heiress and up-and-coming actress, invites her to all the best parties. Ella has always refused to turn Holiday's doings into gossip fodder. But everything changes when a cutthroat manager takes over The Life with plans to drastically reduce freelance staff. Reporters must deliver exclusive stories or else. As the pressure mounts, Ella jeopardizes her relationships with her friends, lover, and family members to keep her job. Teens will see themselves in Ella, and Stern's use of descriptive aliases, combined with teasing bits of familiar entertainment news, will keep them guessing about the real celebrities behind the sobriquets.
VERDICT Fans of celebrity gossip and fashion will be riveted by this predictable though entertaining read.

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