Anon Pls.: A Novel

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Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Follows Cricket Lopez the assistant of one of the most notorious celebrity stylists that will become famous on Instagram. From its creator comes a fun debut novel that promises to be… everything you might expect from DeuxMoi. When Cricket Lopez, assistant to one of the most notorious celebrity stylists, revamps her old fashion Instagram account and turns it into a source for celebrity gossip on a drunken whim, she never thinks it will become anything. The only characteristics I can think of to give Cricket, the protagonist, is that she's a doormat and selfish.

The way she's tapped into our obsession with celebrity culture, demystifying it and also creating even more intrigue with celeb blind items and news breaks is attention-worthy, and the account is a staple for me. After a successful night of attention, DeuxMoi continues to blow up even farther than Cricket ever expected. I don't regret the time that I spent with the book, but it did only take a little over an hour to read so it wasn't a massive commitment on my time.

It was whatever, but felt included to shift this into something of a women's fiction market than just being left to wither and die in the 'how do we market this' wasteland that is general fiction. You don't even know what Cricket looks like, you don't even know what they have in common and or her personality in general through this whole thing that would make him fall in love with her. But when the account grows overnight and, even wilder, when she starts getting gossip from fans and insiders — juicy gossip—she has to face facts: her Instagram is now famous. Honestly, this book was a very pleasant surprise and I definitely recommend it if you need something unique and fun.

We follow fictional founder Cricket Lopez as she makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to turn what was created as a style Instagram account into a hub for tips about and sightings of the rich and famous. Anyway, if you want to play a drinking game with this book, go ahead and take a shot every time a brand name or an actor is named-dropped. Sexy, suspenseful, and so good you won’t want to put it down—not even to check on the latest stories in Deuxmoi’s feed. But if nothing else, this book reminded me of a movie I would put on in the background while I painted a Homecoming poster for student council in high school — and that’s actually a compliment, don’t fret! Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen, also by William Morrow and out this year was a better time spent, though that has more in common with Cover Story than it does here.

It's light and fun, full of inside jokes and celebrity references that fans of the instagram account will get instantly, and those who aren't as familiar can still enjoy. But I think if the book was written better, then the book would have made it a lot more obvious who the person is behind the app.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You just wonder how in the world she has a job and how in the world did she even get to the level that she was at. Kirkus Reviews praised the authors' prose and drew comparison to other books in the autofiction genre.I was surprised to learn that Ollie is based on a real person and am dying to know who Sasha is inspired by. The novel does a good job of exploring the motivations and land mines that come with running an account as popular as Deuxmoi.

DeuxMoi now has over two million followers on Instagram alone and regularly shares celebrity sightings and stories. I've just read more compelling books about stylists, like The Stylist which was also published by William Morrow. But as the account grows and becomes more and more famous, she has to wonder: is it - the fame, the insider access, the escape from real life - really worth losing everything she has? It is being developed as a one-hour drama series via Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros.I will stand by the fact that a good plot line is a thousand times more satisfying than a badly written sex scene until I DIE. Which, sure, would make sense if she actually wanted to work with celebrities, but Cricket has no motivation for becoming a stylist. As the account grows and becomes more and more influential, she has to wonder: is it—the fame, the insider access, the escape from real life—really worth losing everything she has?