Crystal

by Katie Price

A glittering and sexy story of passion and betrayal and one woman’s search for true love.

Crystal is beautiful, talented and ambitious. All her life she has dreamed of making it as a singer. After years of trying to break into the music industry, her chance finally comes when her girl band enters a TV reality show contest.

But Crystal has a secret. She’s fallen for the wrong man and this one mistake could cost her everything— her friendships, her fame and her chance of ever finding love again…

Genres: Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Celebrity

288 pages, Hardcover

First published November 10, 2009

About the author

Born as Katie Infield in Brighton, East Sussex, England on May 22 1978, I changed my last name to Price when my mother Amy remarried. I have an older brother, Daniel, and a younger sister, Sophie.

Although I had many interests when I was younger, a friend suggested that I should pursue a modeling career. So I sent a few shots to an agency and was taken on. I attended loads of castings, had my fair share of negative responses then one day, in a studio next to where I was working, a model failed to turn up for a shoot. The photographer asked around if anyone would be interested in doing a topless shoot… and the rest, as they say, is history!

My topless modeling career took off in 1996 when I appeared in The Sun as part of the ‘Page 3′ pictorial. The legendary section of the tabloid features a different girl each day posing topless. I was the first topless model to grace the Page 3 for a whole week – fully dressed on a Monday, then each day revealing more and more untill Friday – full topless. The exposure boosted my career and I soon became one of the UKs most famous models, under the pseudonym ‘Jordan.’

From there on I graced many magazine front covers , not just in the UK but also across Europe. My popularity soon reached even further afield and I posed for Playboy, landing on the front cover of the September 2002 issue.

I have been through many well-publicised relationships. And my illnesses, including the removal of a tumor from one of my fingers and complications with my pregnancies and family, have been very public.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Predictable and trashy, unlikeable characters and frustratingly slow but a good sun bed read non the less.

Two stars.

[Em · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought it was amazing. Katie price is an amazing author. infact i own every fiction book that she has ever written. They look stunning on my book shelf. Crystal follows a similar style to angel. It demonstrates the perfect world (or un-perfect) of being a pop star. I love the world that katie creates, the glamorous world of modelling, acting, singing, being a footballers wife. I absolutely 100 percent reccomend all of katies books, somehow they are all intergrated through characters which is brilliant because when you have finished one book and think you know a charcter completely she can surprise you with more information in the next one. Love love love it xx

[Natalie Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I very much enjoyed this Book, Another great book from Katie Price. Which in itself is beyond amazing. I for one didn't know she could even spell?? lol Good Book over all, a must read.

[Krystal · Rating 1 out of 5]

What an utter load of crap. No idea what the target audience is here because the storyline is simple and feels more appropriate for the tween market, but there's far too much blunt swearing, vulgar, sexual language and generally promiscuous behaviour for that! It's no original idea - it's 'American Idol' written from the viewpoint of a contestant, only with a far less interesting back story and way too much cliched, love triangle romance. I am ashamed to share a name with this main character - she's conceited, written to be perfect which comes across instead as unlikeable and annoying. There's also zero reasoning as to why she has such a lack of self-control when it comes to her friend's boyfriend, aside from the terrible fact that 'he's so dreamy'. Every single character has been stolen from somewhere, and the story is so incredibly shallow that there is just nothing to hold the interest. Katie Price writes like a horny teenager with the English skills of a thirteen year-old. I have no idea who this drivel will appeal to, but I have to be honest, this did hit the DNF pile after only 90 pages. It was that or beat my head against a wall repeatedly.

[Julie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've read a couple of other books by Katie Price and found them frivolous but readable.
This I found silly and I disliked the reality t.v theme. This is something I don't particularly enjoy in real life either.

[S · Rating 1 out of 5]

So bad. Even my bored, tired of quantum Physics self found this way too trashy and cheap.

[Rei · Rating 3 out of 5]

OBVIOUSLY she didn't write this, as I don't think she has an original creative bone in her being, and I'm not a fan of the... woman, at all but the ghost writer did a good job.

Picked it up when I had a quid to spare and was mildly -very mildly- surprised. The writing is very childish using loads of brackets in my opinion (because they look liked they forgot something, like this for example.) But the story is an easy read, obvious storyline, but easy to follow.

The characters were typical and attempted to be deep in personality; not sure if they succeeded but despite my apparent dislike for it, I didn't mind it. Sitting on my shelf, and haven't touched it since. Three stars. I can't push four as I feel its too much. (:

[Redfox5 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked Crystal more than Angel. The story as well as the character because apart from at the start where she was sleeping with her mates boyfriend, she was a little less selfish than Angel was. I liked that Jez was in the book. I like when authors cross over characters. Angel even makes an apperence. I'm not sure I would have been so forgiving towards Jake and even though the book description is very different. I had him pictured as this guy:

Think it must have been to do with his personality as Jake is supposed to be 29! It made picturing the sex scenes all kinds of wrong but I just could not shake his image!

[Eve Hatton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was amazing! It wasn't as predictable as similar books I've read and was full of twists I just wasn't expecting! This is the first of Katie Price's books that I've read and now I am so excited to read the others!

Crystal is one third of girl band Lost Angels who enter a talent show band ambition (basically X factor) and their lives change forever. Crystal learns the hard way that once you are famous it is hard to trust anyone and she finds herself the centre of some very nasty stories. All her life she has wanted to be a singer but she learns that with it comes fame wihich unlike her band mate Belle isn't what she wanted.

[Georgina Ball · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice story. Easy to read, easy to follow, a little predictible, ok, quite predictable, but a nice chick-lit read. I think Katie is reliving a lot of the experiences from her own life in this book and it contains information which only someone like her, i.e. a celebrity, would know, which makes it quite interesting for us ordinary folk. It's a fun book, it'll make you laugh once or twice and *may* move you to tears depending on your own disposition. Would I re-read this book? No. But would I read another of Katie Price's book? Probably.

[Alice Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

Crystal is yet another fun celebrity-filled romp from Katie Price. In Angel we had Angel Summer, who made it big time as a model. This one features Crystal, whose girl band wins a TV talent competition and achieve global fame overnight.

I didn't quite enjoy Crystal as much as Angel; obviously the book is littered with cliches and I couldn't quite connect with the main character. I think I preferred the character of Tahlia and would have liked to read a whole book about her! Katie's books always leave me feeling satisifed though, they're fine for when I want a bit of trash in my life!

[Alice Percival · Rating 4 out of 5]

I recently reread this book whilst I was in hospital and, as usual with Katie Price's books, I got sucked in and found myself wanting to be a part of the story.
I have read a number of her books and have enjoyed them all as I find that her books are easy to read and I like books which I can easily get lost in without requiring too much thought on my part!
I like that Katie weaves the characters from her other novels into each one, I think it makes the stories feel more real and I am always left wanting to know what happens next.

[Kelly Simpson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crystal is beautiful, talented and ambitious. All her life she has dreamed of making it as a singer. After years of trying to break into the music industry her chance finally comes when her girl band enters a TV reality show contest.

But Crystal has a secret. She's fallen for the wrong man and this one mistake could cost her everything - her friendships, her fame and her chance of ever finding love again...

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Crystal by Katie Price is the second of her books that I have read, and like the first book I was surprised at how well it was written, the storyline was entertaining throughout.

It was good that characters from the first book "Angel" were crossed over and linked into this story, it made it feel more "homely".

I enjoyed the story and how it explained about the girls band and the show they won but it screamed X-Factor!!!

Overall I enjoyed the book.

[Karianne Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Katie writes what she knows, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but can feel a bit lazy writing at times. You won't dislike the characters but you won't like them enough to care what happens. It's lack a certain something, and maybe if it were written under a pseudonym or by another author it would be easier to separate it from Katie's own life.
I liked it, but left it behind on holiday for the next person to read.

[ReaderSP · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read Katie's last book and was very impressed. I liked the style and felt that the characters were believable. I do think that this second book is not as good as the first. I know that Katie didn't sit down a write it herself but it doesn't really matter who wrote it. The book is a good, girly read that would recommend to anyone.

[Filomena · Rating 3 out of 5]

Taková průměrná, místy zábavná knížka, díky které zabijete dlouhou cestu vlakem z kolejí domů. Pokud hledáte knížku nenáročnou, dobře čtivou bez nějakých hlubších myšlenek (třeba jako odpočinek od povinné četby nebo skript), vřele doporučuju.

[Daisy Souster · Rating 5 out of 5]

Again guilty as charged! I would never read one of her books now, but at the time I loved these type of books, and this book delivered just what I wanted at the time. A light hearted summer read about the glamorous life of an unrealistic celebrity in love.

[Alka · Rating 2 out of 5]

claim to fame is it is written by a celebrity. and truth be told, not too badly written either..its just a larger version of a typical M&B kind of romance, not the type I wanted to spend my time reading.

[Amz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book so much couldn't put it down. Loved the ending as it was a nice one . Glad he come back and loved her more than ever to propose on such a lovely day! Baby Christmas and engagement aye!

[Lucieeee Evansss · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think the storylines of Katie Prices books are quite good as the main characters are normal people who enter stardom and fame. I Read this on Holiday and once again found it an easy read (:

[Ruiyao · Rating 2 out of 5]

i'm too old for this.

[Lynn O'Neill]

a friend lent it to me and said i could bring it on holidays and leave it there if i wanted....i wanted...not my cup of tea at all. It is too repetitive and maybe i'm a little old to enjoy it...

[Franchesca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thought it was amazing!

[Bethany · Rating 4 out of 5]

very good, preferred angel and angel uncovered though.

[Mel]

i only read this as Wella challenged me to! I could feel myself getting dumber while i read it! Even the sex scenes were boring!

[Sarah · Rating 1 out of 5]

dire! I'm afraid to say I found it terribly boring and didn't finish it! not my cup of tea at all! :)

[Natasha May Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A real girly book I guess. However I really enjoyed this. I always think about this in general life, what happened in the story. It felt so true to life.

[Caroline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Again chick lit, easy read, one for the sunbead or beach x x

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was very easy to follow and had a good storyline but i found it wasn't as good as the Angel series.