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chloe_crammond 's review for:
Chart Throb
by Ben Elton
Unfortunately this was too formulaic and repetitive to be anything outstanding. The author has a good understanding of popular culture (or at least the way it was in the early 2000s) but I didn't see anything new here expressing his thoughts on it that wasn't captured in the last book of his I read (Dead Famous).
There was nothing surprising, it just progressed at a standard pace until the conclusion was reached. The only surprising part of the whole book, the very minor twist at the end, would have been so much better had he not chickened out and opted for the PG version of events.
The characters being based on real celebrities was amusing at first, but got dull really quickly, and the repetitiveness of the speech really started to grate after a while.
Disappointing and dull.
There was nothing surprising, it just progressed at a standard pace until the conclusion was reached. The only surprising part of the whole book, the very minor twist at the end, would have been so much better had he not chickened out and opted for the PG version of events.
The characters being based on real celebrities was amusing at first, but got dull really quickly, and the repetitiveness of the speech really started to grate after a while.
Disappointing and dull.