Hollywood, Ending
Kai emerges vividly on the page. Green, who knows a thing or two about being devoured by fame, depicts the young man’s bewilderment with radiant empathy ... Relative to Kai, Green approaches Juniper too tentatively. Early on, her voice verges on robotic ... Kai comes to see Juniper more wholly than she can see herself — which, if hardly flawless in its handling, may be just what Green is getting at here. In the author’s anguished portrait of modern fame, the most challenging performance is that of an authentic self. And so, as Hollywood, Ending evolves into a love story of a familiar scope for Green, it still reveals itself as far thornier and subtler than what he’s delivered before — indeed, far more grown-up.
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Has the remarkable warmth that made his young-adult books...beloved contemporary classics ... Hilariously frank and profane ... Has moments that come as close as Green has every gotten to savage. At heart, though, he’s a tender writer whose abiding concern through all his work is what it takes to remain decent in a ruthless and impersonal world.
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[A] spellbinding, tender, incisive, funny, and compassionate story of love and creativity.
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