4% FAMOUS by Deborah Schoeneman
ISBN: 030723746X
Format: Hardcover, 288pp
Pub. Date: May 2006
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Deborah Schoeneman’s debut novel 4% Famous introduces us to the world of New York City gossip. I was nervous even picking this one up because I adored Page Six Bridget Harrison’s Tabloid Love so much that I feared I would take it out on poor innocent Schoeneman. Here’s what I discovered. These books are totally and completely different. The only similiarity is that both authors work as gossip columnists. Schoeneman’s book reads much more like a fresh, young and newly minted Jackie Collins. If anything, Jackie should start watching her back because younger, stronger women with their fingers placed more firmly on the pulse of the scandalous world of Hollywood Gossip are coming out of every crack in the sidewalk of New York City. And as you know, that is the city that never, ever sleeps. I’m sure Ms. Jackie Collins is getting her fair share of beauty rest and these energetic girls aren’t wasting a minute.
Deborah’s debut novel, 4% Famous is full of delicious gossip. It reads like one long blind item. You will find yourself desperately trying to figure out who the “Hollywood Prince” is or the “Literary Wunderkind”. I didn’t feel the same kinship with the main character as I did with Tabloid Love, but it is very readable and highly enjoyable. I’m already mad at myself for reading it a few weeks too early because this one would have been PERFECT for the beach!
