by John Green
First sentence: “When I got the news that Matthew Malone wished to make my acquaintance, I was rereading the script for Andy Warhol Never Gets Old in a bare-walled apartment the studio had rented for me.”
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Content: There is swearing (including multiple f-bombs) and fade-to-black sex. There is also talk of sexual and emotional abuse. It’s in the Adult Fiction section of the bookstore.

John said no spoilers, and I agree: the less you know going into this, the better it will be. Know it’s about fame and the things that Hollywood insists must be done in order to have it. It’s about the business of making movies – not the actual making of them as much as the machine surrounding it. It’s probably based on John’s experiences with the Hollywood machine, and the way the whole fame surrounding The Fault in Our Stars impacted him. And it’s a good book. It’s got characters that are sympathetic, a story that is compelling, and it’s thoughtful and funny (I’d forgotten that I like funny John). It deals with trauma and anxiety and abandonment, but it never feels heavy-handed. And I think John’s writing suits 20-somethings really well; I was never annoyed that they felt too pretentious, which is a feeling I got a lot when reading his YA fiction.

In short, I enjoyed this quite a bit.