Famous Last Words

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Something’s not adding up. Ever since Willa moved to Hollywood with her mom and new stepfather, big-break actresses have been mysteriously disappearing….only to show up months later dead portraying a famous horror movie scene. Yet somehow, Willa feels like she is strangely connected to these girls. In this thrilling novel by Katie Alender, we are taken through a series of paranormal activity, the sights Hollywood has to offer, and of a teenage girl trying to fit into a new crowd going into high school. Our main viewpoint focuses around Willa, who, despite most girl’s dreams, does NOT want to move to Hollywood to live in an old, extremely fancy mansion, she does  NOT want a famous stepfather, and she definitely does not want to have to start all over with a new group of people at a new school, next to the strange boy named Wyatt, who nobody seems to really like, (in particular, because of the fact that he seems obsessed with the mystery and finding the Hollywood killer), in an entirely different state across the country from what she was used to, especially since most of her new “friends” only seem to like her because of her stepfather’s reputation. What she does want is for her life to go back to the way it was before. Before her dad died. Before the ghosts started to creep into her life- How does a dead girl just show up in her swimming pool, why is there mysterious writing on the walls that only she can see, why is she suddenly having flashbacks of other girl’s lives, but most of all…why does she always feel like she’s being watched?! Willa just wants her life to go back to the way it was before any of this Hollywood cerial-killer nonsense became any of her business. Join Willa as she slowly gets to the bottom of this mystery and finds a way to adjust to the likes of Hollywood in this amazing, eye-capturing book. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did, and look into other mysteries of Katie Alender’s works.

This are the kind of dreams you don’t wake up from, Henry….

More Info: You can order a copy of Famous Last Words on amazon for $9.81, or find it at Barnes & Noble for $10.14. You can follow author Katie Alender on Twitter at https://twitter.com/katiealender?lang=en or on Facebook at https://m.facebook.com/KatieAlenderBooks/. You can also follow her instagram here https://www.instagram.com/katiealender/, and check out her website at http://www.katiealender.com/.

~FUN FACTS~

• An avian hospital was actually built on the set of Birds, the first death scene recreated by the Hollywood killer.

• The setting of Vertigo, another movie in which a famous death scene is remade, was changed from Paris to San Francisco.

• The first movie to ever be made in Hollywood was In Old California, which was filmed in 1910. Prior to that, there were no movie theaters in Hollywood because they were banned!  

I hope you enjoy this well-written mystery, and remember: DON’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS MOVIE, OR A MOVIE BY ITS BOOK!!!