Sasha King dreams of being a serious novelist and living the good life with her surfer boyfriend, Brock. But her day job as assistant producer of Project Icon, a once-mighty ratings juggernaut that’s recently taken a hit in viewership, keeps her working nonstop.
She’s got her hands full with Icon’s two new celebrity judges, entrepreneur-actress-singer Bibi Vasquez (“Crew to be forbidden to make eye contact with Artist AT ALL TIMES,” reads her contract) and Joey Lovecraft, a horny but spiritual rock legend who doesn’t even own a TV (it goes against the teachings of his guru, Tibetan high lama Yutog Gonpo).
As the competition among the young would-be stars?—including foul-mouthed, opera-trained Mia Pelosi and apple-cheeked yodeler Jimmy Nugget (“It’s like Roy Rogers made love to a Bee Gee!”)—?heats up, Sasha finds herself constantly putting out fires. A date with a mysterious stranger makes her rethink her devotion to Brock. And then an unexpected revelation rocks her world.
Add a frighteningly smooth host (Wayne Shoreline), muckraking gossip columnists, and powerful people named Nigel, and you have the pure madcap reading pleasure of Elimination Night, a book so searingly accurate about the talent show machine that it had to be written anonymously.
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"If you followed American Idol the last two years (judges JLo and Steven Tyler) you would enjoy this book. Is it fact or fiction? Hard to tell but interesting no doubt. You have to translate the names in your head. Simon is Nigel, BiBi is JLo, Joey is Steven. Fun read."
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Kim (5 out of 5 stars)