Royce Rolls - Softcover

Stohl, Margaret

3.15

1,696 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 148473405X ISBN 13: 9781484734056

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2018

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Sixteen-year-old Bentley Royce seems to have it all: an actual Bentley, tuition to a fancy private school, lavish vacations, and everything else that comes along with being an LA starlet. But after five seasons on her family's reality show, Rolling with the Royces, and a lifetime of dealing with her narcissistic sister, Porsche, media-obsessed mother, Mercedes, and somewhat clueless brother, Maybach, Bentley wants out. Luckily for her, without a hook for season six, cancellation is looming and freedom is nigh. With their lifestyle on the brink, however, Bentley's family starts to crumble, and one thing becomes startlingly clear--without the show, there is no family. And since Bentley loves her family, she has to do the unthinkable--save the show. But when her future brother-in-law's car goes over a cliff with both Bentley and her sister's fianc� inside-on the day of the big made-for-TV wedding, no less-things get real.
Really real. Like, not reality show real.
Told in a tongue-in-cheek voice that takes a swipe at all things Hollywood, Royce Rolls is a laugh-out-loud funny romp with an LA noir twist about what it means to grow up with the cameras rolling and what really happens behind the scenes.

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About the Author:

Margaret Stohl is the #1 New York Times best-selling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series. She is also the author of the instant best-seller Black Widow: Forever Red, and its sequel Black Widow: Red Vengeance, or as noted by one television writer, "those little paper things." (The word you're looking for is books.) Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, Margaret spent her adolescence crank-calling Harrison Ford, living across the hall from a John Waters starlet, and waving to Starline Tours buses as they stopped to take pictures of her P.E. class at Mulholland Hall, where she first met Bentley Royce. These are and are not her stories. Follow her on Twitter @mstohl.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 9 Up—For most of her life, Bentley Royce has been a character on the set of her family's reality TV show. Her every move is calculated, down to daily outfits and breakfast choices. Though her mother, older sister, and younger brother take their scripted lives in stride, Bentley yearns for something more real, including a college education. When ratings begin to slip and renewal of their show becomes uncertain, Bentley starts working on a plan to transform her life. Things quickly get out of control, ending with Bentley and her sister's fianc� reportedly missing after the car they were in is found at the bottom of a ravine the night of the rehearsal dinner. The search for them takes Bentley's family away from their structured schedules and forces them to reevaluate their lives. The author uses the depths to which the actors and network executives will go to maintain fame to make a stark statement about Hollywood culture. While Stohl provides humor and some enjoyable scenes throughout, the narrative becomes weighed down with repetitive reality TV lingo. Production notes and Internet blog posts sprinkled throughout are intriguing but also distract from the plot. VERDICT Some teens may get a kick out of the superficial activities that fill up this book, but others will lose interest quickly. A disappointing read.—Karin Greenberg, Queens College, NY

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