Meet Thea, the celebrity wife who can't wait to stop playing by the rules...
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Thea has had enough of being the wife of sexy rock star Toby. She simply wants a normal life but Toby often disappears for days on end without even a phone call to put her mind at rest. So when rumours spread about his affair with an MTV starlet Thea decides that enough is enough.A funny and mischievous take on relationships by the author of Wow!
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A celebrity wife with integrity? The rock stars don't know what's about to hit them! For Thea, wife of sexy rock god, Toby, life isn't always a ball. OK, so there are some compensations if you like being in the public eye - the occasional ritzy award ceremony or chic music industry bash, and gossipy lunches with the glamorous, if bitchy, wives of other celebs, but on the whole things are surprisingly dull. Particularly if, like Thea, you just want to lead a normal life with the man you love. And even more particularly if the man you love keeps doing a Liam Gallagher and disappearing for days on end, without even a phone call to put your mind at rest. So, when rumours about Toby's affair with an up-and-coming MTV starlet start to get a little out of control, Thea decides enough is enough. It's time to take fate into her own hands, stop being a rockstar's sometime accessory and track down the one man who can prove she's a person in her own right . . . With the ferocious wit that made Claudia Pattison's debut novel, WOW!, so compelling, FAME GAME is a funny and mischievous take on the relationships that define you and proves once and for all that an independent woman is underestimated at man's peril. Praise for WOW! 'The literary equivalent of Heat magazine' - Independent 'An unashamed page-turner . . . you won't be able to stop reading' - Hello
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is simply a trashy, enjoyable novel about the entertainment industry, with its preoccupation with money, sex, and drugs. The author tells a cautionary tale about life in the fast lane, and the things that can happen when one falls prey to the call of the fame game.
The characters are diverse, as are the storylines that bind them. I can't say that any one of the characters is particularly compelling or likable, but their stories will most certainly keep the reader turning the pages to see what happens to them. The book is definitely a guilty pleasure. Fans of Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins will, undoubtedly, enjoy this book.
The characters are diverse, as are the storylines that bind them. I can't say that any one of the characters is particularly compelling or likable, but their stories will most certainly keep the reader turning the pages to see what happens to them. The book is definitely a guilty pleasure. Fans of Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins will, undoubtedly, enjoy this book.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Emma
Format:Paperback
I adored Claudia Pattison's first book Wow! and couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. Fame Game has all the dry wit and bitchy humour we saw in Wow!, as well as some great one-liners, but it's also an unexpectedly sensitive and thought-provoking read. The heroine Thea isn't as tough as Wow!'s Ruby Lake but she's very likeable all the same and I loved her observations on the wacky world of the celebrity wife.
By Janie U
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It was really interesting whilst reading this book to try to put together the fictional "celebs" in this book with real celebrities, particularly in the rock star world.
The book was a very easy read and quite good fun but really nothing to get very excited about.
The story about Thea trying to find her father worked quite well and it came to a very good conclusion which actually felt quite real, although to get there were some huge co-incidences and opportunities.
I would like to know how it feels to be a rock stars wife in real life and to not be interested in the whole fame thing - so made me think a bit.
The book was a very easy read and quite good fun but really nothing to get very excited about.
The story about Thea trying to find her father worked quite well and it came to a very good conclusion which actually felt quite real, although to get there were some huge co-incidences and opportunities.
I would like to know how it feels to be a rock stars wife in real life and to not be interested in the whole fame thing - so made me think a bit.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Everyone who, like me, loved Pattison's first book and rushes to buy the Fame Game is probably going to be disapointed. It is not that the book is terrible, far from it, it is just that Claudia Pattison, the author, has become a victim of her first novel, like so many author have done before her. In otherword, we were expecting this novel to be even better than the last one.
Readers probably will find it hard to understand, respect, left alone like, the central character who doesn't have the sparkle of Claudia's previous heroine.
And essentially, this is the novel main weakness: the lack of characters interesting enough to make you care.
In fact, the sub plot, where the character look for her father, is actually what make the book worth reading... A shame that the author didn't developed it better as this would have made a good novel on its own.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is unputtadownable. The story really gripped me, and I needed to know what happenned next. Absolutely Fantastic.
She's got a knack of making the boring bits (you know the ones all books have) interesting. I will be looking forward to rest of her books.
She's got a knack of making the boring bits (you know the ones all books have) interesting. I will be looking forward to rest of her books.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Jennie
Format:Paperback
This book is perfect for a lazy sunday afternoon. It is not too taxing and the story bubbles along at a pleasant pace! Claudia Pattison ensures that enough happens to Thea to keep her reader but the story line is not over complicated by needless detail.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you're an avid reader of Heat and/or interested in zeleb gossip, this is the perfect novel for you. The characters have depth, most of them anyway, and the author inserts the perfect amount of twists and turns. A brilliant read.
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