2010, book three: La Candy
I would love if my 2010 book reviews could be an example of my highly intellectual brain and fully-formed analytical capabilities, but unfortunately there are times when a gal has a short flight to take, and those times call for something that I otherwise turn my nose up at: chick-lit. And so here we are, Lauren Conrad’s La Candy in hand (countered by a piece of Chinese literature that will be reviewed soon), shuffling up to the counter at Hughes & Hughes in Dublin Airport and crossing my fingers that nobody will see me. (My legions of adoring fans would be so let down, you know.)
For those of you not familiar with Conrad, she is the former “star” of MTV’s reality hit, The Hills, having moved on from Laguna Beach to live in LA with her best friend Heidi, who is now SO not her BFF, making loads of fake friends along the way. La Candy is the story of Jane, a pretty, girl-next-door type whose life is turned upside down when she is approached by a TV producer who wants to make her a star by filming a reality show based around her, her gorgeous best friend Scarlett (I think; it’s always a sign of a terrible book when you forget names and details straight away) and two other girls who are inserted to be their fake friends. So far, so clear.
The pros? It’s short. The writing is huge. It’s kind of like watching an episode of Gossip Girl, but without Chuck Bass or the amazing fashion so, really, it’s quite rubbish.
The cons? It’s quite rubbish. You’ll spend a lot of time wondering which one’s Heidi, which one’s Audrina, thinking about the myriad thinly-veiled references to real-life occurrences. Plus, it’s really embarrassing to be caught reading it by, say, a work colleague.
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