Unrivalled
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3.0 • 5 Ratings
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- £1.99
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Publisher Description
Bestselling author Alyson Noël brings you the high energy, glamorous, and murderous world of the Beautiful Idols. Go behind the velvet rope to the gritty LA club scene where anything goes, and mystery is around every corner.
‘A frothy, smart and fun read.’ – Heat magazine
Welcome to the party
EVERYONE wants to be someone.
Layla Harrison wants to be a reporter.
Aster Amirpour wants to be an actress.
Tommy Phillips wants to be a guitar hero.
But Madison Brooks took destiny and made it her own a long time ago.
She’s Hollywood’s hottest starlet, and the things she did to become the name on everyone’s lips are merely a stain on the pavement, ground beneath her Louboutin heel.
That is, until Layla, Aster, and Tommy find themselves with a VIP invite to the world of Los Angeles’s nightlife and are lured into a competition. The prize, or rather the target? Madison Brooks.
Just as their hopes begin to gleam like stars through the California smog, Madison Brooks goes missing. . . . And all of their hopes are blacked out in the haze of their lies.
Readers of Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars won’t want to miss Unrivalled!
Reviews
“Not all of LA’s beautiful people lead beautiful lives. Alyson Noel shows us with the details of an observant insider what they’re really up to, late into the night. Like a good celebrity, Unrivaled is mysterious and compelling and so gorgeous you won’t be able to look away.”(Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the Gossip Girl series
“This glitzy, suspenseful, shamelessly addictive read offers an all-access pass to the glimmering world of Hollywood celebrity, where fame is a game, dark secrets are currency, and love doesn’t come without a high price.” Margaret Stohl, author of Beautiful Creatures
“If you love Pretty Little Liars, you’ll love this sexy teen drama set against the backdrop of the glamorous LA club scene—where every choice poses a threat and nothing is what is seems.” Kami Garcia, author of Beautiful Creatures and Unbreakable
About the author
Alyson Noel is a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
She was born and raised in The OC and has lived in both Mykonos and Manhattan, but now finds herself settled right back in California where she lives and writes full time.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The first book in the Beautiful Idols series starts slowly but builds into an impossible-to-leave web of secrets and blackmail. Alyson Noël’s novel revolves around three ambitious 20-somethings who seize on the opportunity of a lifetime: spending the summer working as promoters for the hottest clubs in Los Angeles. The catch? They must compete against each other for a large paycheck. We tore through Unrivalled to find out just how far they’d go. With its mix of trashy L.A. scenes, romance and a whodunnit, it ticks all the boxes for a satisfying read.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
No l (the Immortals series) sets this first book in her Beautiful Idols series in the glitzy, elitist, and seamy Los Angeles nightclub scene. Eighteen-year-olds Layla, Tommy, and Aster are thrown together after signing up for a contest competing to promote clubs owned by a powerful Hollywood mogul. The girl they all desperately want in their clubs: starlet Madison Brooks, a former small-town girl with a mysterious past. Layla has journalistic dreams, Tommy hopes to make it as a musician, and Aster is Persian royalty who wants to be a Hollywood starlet herself. No l cycles among the stories of Layla, Tommy, Aster, and Madison in a gossipy, third-person narrative that makes for addictive reading yet does little to endear these characters to readers. No l gives a bit of sincerity and na vet to each, most of all Tommy, but competitive, money-hungry superficiality and backstabbing dominate. No l seems to be interested in exploring the lengths to which people will go to get ahead, but the novel has little to say about it beyond the splashy, lurid repercussions of her characters' actions. Ages 14 up.
