Love Fast Los Angeles

by Davey Havok

Alvin is a party photographer. His controversial, taste-making site has brought fortune and fame to hundreds including the wild girls of the hit reality series “All F’s.” With a fiery, freshly broken heart, Al attempts to enact his vendetta against a former online-teen- heart-throb while struggling to gain the affection of disaffected socialite, Sky Monroe. In this millennial love story, filled with fast cars, pop stars, outrageous poseurs, lavish parties, golden guns, designer drugs and drag queens, dark Hollywood looms behind a blinding spotlight, directing all. Here celebrity is god, irreverence is revered, and obsession takes the wheel to run every red light in this pop fueled noir.

Genres: Contemporary, Fiction

258 pages, Hardcover

First published February 8, 2018

About the author

David Paden Marchand, best known by his stage name Davey Havok, is the lead vocalist of the American rock band AFI, the electronic music band Blaqk Audio, and hardcore band XTRMST.

Reviews

[Kile · Rating 1 out of 5]

The only reason I could get through this book is because Davey read it to me. I want to like it. I tried.

[Tessa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Extremely disturbing and offensive... definitely not for people with special needs. people with special needs should not be reading books that contain misspelled words nor have a very crappy spelling grammar and a very crappy storyline.

[Sarah Karasek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maybe I'm trying too hard to think of this as some sort of masterpiece, but here goes: When I first started reading, I couldn't stand the voice/style. Then I started to read it as if the style were part of the voice of the narrator (not the author). The narrator, Alvin, is not very likeable. The writing style seems to reflect him very well though, so I started to read this as a sort of experimental novel. If that's the case, this has some madhat experimentalism going on that I 100% dig. Even the typos, if they're actually typos, add to it. (If they're actually typos, please Davey, let me edit/copyedit/proofread the next book!)

Downside: The last pages of this seem more ending-adjacent than actual ending.

[Victoria Mendes · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did not find a single character I could latch onto and like, so I didn’t exactly like the book. There are a few things that made me giggle ... I thought it was going to be a thriller but I never found myself on the edge of my seat. It’s just not my cup of tea. If you like the sounds of what is essentially an LA dumpster fire of a story then you’re going to want to pick this book up. I just CBA to care about it 😂

[Ignacio Limón · Rating 5 out of 5]

The MC is a total degen and I love it. Some of this isn't far off from what you may see in circles within the corporate/tech world or communities with way too much money and time on their hands. Alvin is not meant to be likeable, Mr. Havok went out of his way to make this man a total @$$ and I'm here for it.

[Jameson Ketchum · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love Davey and AFI but I enjoyed his first novel Pop Kids a bit more. Maybe because few to no one is likable in this one. I don’t think they’re necessarily supposed to be likable though! This one just didn’t grip me. I wanted the main character to fall off a cliff by the third chapter. Cool lingo though haha

[Jay Bakowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

I accidentally read this book before Pop Kids, the first DXH book, and knew nothing about the universe of the story. If you love the stories about the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the 1980s I believe you’ll enjoy the modern universe with the same themes!

[Jeannie · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Kelly Cafek · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had the hardest time getting through this one. The editing, or intentional grammatical errors, made this one super hard to follow. The story fell flat, without having a clear plot line.

[Nicholas Hatton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book. Amidst the all-action premise of Love Fast Los Angeles, there is a lot of black humour and there are a lot of “home truths” about life on the fringes of super-stardom in one of America’s most famous cities. The cultural references in the book add to the entertainment factor and the “name dropping”- sometimes somewhat abstract and unexpected- adds to the humorous element and reveals something about how people in Hollywood live.
The protagonist is relatable and enviable, despite the fantastical nature of some of his escapades. Morals go out of the window in an internet age where everybody is watching each other, information is instant and where people must, at once, flatter and destroy each other to survive.

[Rowan Reeves · Rating 2 out of 5]

2/5 ⭐

If you go into this realizing that the main character is a crazy LA party boy with verrrry relative (and dubious) morals, it's a lot of fun.

It's weird! It's nasty!

And it paints a picture of a dirty, strobe lit celebrity scene littered with glitter and coke spoons. If that's not something you think you'd vibe with, this book won't be for you. There's plenty of grammar mistakes, and a very esoteric vocabulary, but it really fits the perspective of Alvin.

Whether or not you know Davey, AFI, Blaqk Audio, or any of his other projects, this is a uniquely insane book that almost counts as absurdist literature.

[Samantha Leighanne · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had hoped that his second attempt would be better, but it was much the same. This with slightly different commentary and the characters aged up, but you can honestly read my review for Pop Kids and my feelings here are pretty much the same. Super disappointing.