With a title like that, can you really go wrong? Ha!

Sex.Lies.Murder.Fame. It's not your regular chicklit novel. It's far from it. It's a women's fiction book. It's a thriller. It's a psychological insider's perspective on celebrity life. It's a comment on the publishing industry. It's about ugly people and pretty people and drugs and drinking and gettin it on with anything that moves. It's by Lolita Files. (That's not a pen name!)

I friggin could not wait to finish this book so I read it everywhere. I read it at work a lot while my classes wrote their essays. Which was fine until I got to the very graphic sex scenes that sent me into a palpitating chaotic whirlwind that I had to hide under the circumstances.

Yes, it's that kind of read.

Loved this book

I love this book. I almost am sure this would make a great film with the right casting and director. There's sex, love, suspense, murder what more could you want.

Very deceiving....good book though.

Set amid the backdrop of New York City's impervious and highly competitive literary world, a disinherited, struggling writer, Penn Hamilton, plots his course to stardom. Born with dastardly good looks and a genius I.Q., Penn seduces the top editor in the business, Beryl Unger. Beryl is a homely, narcoleptic, obsessive-compulsive workaholic who instantly falls for Penn's charms and his manuscript. The spin-doctors are engaged and Penn, as much as his novel, is an overnight sensation. The money, power, respect, and women ensue. When Beryl discovers that Penn has another lover and threatens to expose him and ruin his budding career, Penn ends the charade by committing a heinous crime.

This novel is a dark comedy, filled with cynicism and wit, and a touch of satire surrounding literary figures (editors, agents, etc.) and concepts (Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk). Files offers a credible plot behind the evolution of Penn's ascent as an artist and embodiment of himself as a "brand" spanning all genres - music, fashion, literature, cinema, even legal scandals - the total package. He becomes an infamous, opportunistic, conniving, heartless protagonist - and yet, he is still fairly likeable. Files keeps the novel fresh and hip. Through Penn, the reader hangs with the "in crowd" and meets modern icons in today's entertainment arena.

If readers are adventurous enough to veer away from the "Reesy and Misty" novels and are patient enough to appreciate the rather lengthy passages dedicated to character development, the underlying ripples of black humor, and the clever infusion of actual literary works and personalities, I think File's fans may appreciate this book as an enriched departure from her traditional `girlfriend' type of novels

i chose this book because one of the main characters is an editor, but i kept reading it because it was awesome. the book explores all of the things mentioned in the title, coldly delineating each one. definitely parts that made me gasp out loud. this book explores what people will do to reach fame, and makes you wonder where you'd stop if you wanted it badly enough.

The story of a megalomaniacal gorgeous genius who can’t do anything wrong (except that whole homicidal sociopathy thing, that is) and his narcoleptic, OCD’d editor, with all kinds of literary gracenotes and self-conscious name-dropping that is possibly really clever and also possibly really overdone. I liked parts of it, disliked others, found it quirky, finished it quickly. Now I’m not sure if I should have started it at all. Oh, well, c’est la vie, n’est-ce pas? Or in this case, c’est la lecture.

Definitely a book true to its title. It was my first time reading Lolita Files but I will read her again. Her writing style is incredibly thoughtful and well laid out. I really enjoyed the character development and would actually have liked to see more. I felt like there was no resolution to the characters Miles, Brookie or Rex. It have been nice for a more concrete ending rather than an imagine it yourself. Overall I did really enjoy the book.

This book was very slow to start. The ending was interesting, and not what I was expecting. Interesting read.

This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for years!!! Seriously, what took me so long to read it!! I love Lolita Files....she does no wrong in my eyes!!!

Dark satire set against the vivid lifestyle of three memorable characters, to be a scalding critique of society’s obsession with fame and celebrity.