Main Character: Eva Cordes
Series: The 310, Book 1
A new cell with the right area code. A sky’s-the-limit credit card. A chance at becoming a Hollywood It Girl. What else could Eva possibly want?
Caught in the middle of senior year’s juiciest scandal, Eva Cordes graduates early and moves to L.A. to live with her aunt — the top talent agent for teens — who plans to make her a star.
Eva has another reason for heading to Hollywood: it’s time for her to get to know her mother — a once-famous model who left Eva to be raised by her grandparents.
But when she gets stuck rooming with a bunch of outrageous teen starlets, and her mom doesn’t want to admit she even has a daughter, Eva’s life is one big tabloid story after another.
Smoking-hot Hollywood insider Danny wants to be her leading man, but he’s officially off-limits. With all these complications, how can Eva ever make it down the red carpet without falling flat on her face?
This is the first book in the 310 series from MTV Books. I live in the 310 so I was curious to see how different my life would be from the people from this series. I don’t live too far from Downtown L.A., I’ve had lunch on Rodeo Drive, I’ve shopped (okay, so I window shopped) at the Beverly Center and I’ve walked up and down the street near the Kodak Center where the stars are.
This seemed like the perfect book to start the summer with and while I enjoyed it, I didn’t think it was all that.
In this book, we follow Eva Cordes as she leaves her life in Massachusetts to come to the bright lights of Hollywood. She’s come to live with her Aunt who is going to make her a star. She’s running from her troubles at home and when she lands in L.A., her life takes on some drastic changes.
Lots of new people and trying to weed out the fake from the real is about as easy as solving the world’s problems and we see Eva go through some major hiccups on her journey to self discovery. I started off, not giving a damn about Eva because of her emails with her friend from back home, Jeff. She was such a liar and a fraud that I couldn’t find it in myself to sympathize with her but over the course of the book, I started to like her.
She’s got some major issues with her family, this white boy wanna be rapper that won’t leave her alone and then a roommate from hell who just so happens to be one of the IT girls in Hollywood. Seeing all of these things fix themselves (with a lot of help from her too) made for an interesting read. This book showed me just how different my 310 is from Eva’s and I’m okay with that because in my 310, I know who my friends are and my family isn’t afraid to claim me as one of their own and I’m glad for it.
Over the course of the book, Eva comes into her own without completely selling her soul to the devil and that’s saying something. I ended up liking her and what’s surprising is that I ended up enjoying the friendship that blossomed between her and her roommates, Jacinda and Coelle. The way that Jacinda and Coelle came to her aid when she needed them made me glad that Eva wasn’t completely alone in the world. Her relationship with her Aunt left a lot to be desired since Laurel had Eva doing some weird crap that no Aunt should make their niece do and Eva’s mother was a complete mess and well, the bright side of it all was that she met Danny and I heart Danny.
Baseball player from UCLA? Yum! This book has definitely got me all curious about the rest of the books in the series so I’m pretty sure that I’ll be checking those out as well. I’m curious to see if we get books from Jacinda and Coelle’s POV or if it’s more from Eva. I guess, I’ll have to find out for myself.
Would I recommend this? Sure, it’s not the best book out there but it’s good for a couple of hours of entertainment. It’s light, fluffy and perfect for a lazy day at the beach.
