What do you think?
Rate this book
Hottie #2
Burning Ambition
Alison Cole and the Department of Hotness are back and ready for action in the sizzling sequel to Hottie — all about a Beverly Hills princess who can shoot fire from her fingertips!
Ever since defeating her evil stepmother, Carmen, Alison's life has been totally fla-mazing. But when she wins a coveted internship at Jen Magazine, she'll have to take on fifteen-year-old Editor-in-Chief Pixie Furmanovsky — the biggest Superbrat the world has ever seen! Pixie always gets what she wants, and now she's after Alison's boyfriend, T!
Can Hottie give little miss BratGirl a Super Sweet Sixteen that she'll never forget? Or is this Superteen about to get superfired?
Ever since defeating her evil stepmother, Carmen, Alison's life has been totally fla-mazing. But when she wins a coveted internship at Jen Magazine, she'll have to take on fifteen-year-old Editor-in-Chief Pixie Furmanovsky — the biggest Superbrat the world has ever seen! Pixie always gets what she wants, and now she's after Alison's boyfriend, T!
Can Hottie give little miss BratGirl a Super Sweet Sixteen that she'll never forget? Or is this Superteen about to get superfired?
260 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2010
59 people want to read
About the author
Jonathan Bernstein
26 books56 followersI am the author of Bridget Wilder: Spy-In-Training.
Bridget Wilder is an adequate daughter, an unexceptional student and a mediocre friend. She's just found out she's also the biological daughter of one of the world's most lethal and notorious spies, the legendary Carter Strike.
Now Bridget lives in two worlds. One, where her family forgets her birthday and so-called class clowns call her Midget Wilder to her face. And another world, where she's trained by a covert CIA department to become a fast, smart, fearless ,gadget-toting secret agent who's tough enough to take on the most fearsome of bad guys.
How many secrets can she keep? And how many secrets are still being kept from her. When you're a a spy-in-training, do you ever really know who you can trust?
I'm also the co-author of Mad World: An Oral History Of New Wave Artists And Songs That Defined The 1980s, which features brand new interviews with the likes of New Order, The Smiths, Duran Duran, Echo & The Bunnymen, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Human League, Dexys Midnight Runners, OMD, Thomas Dolby, ABC, Thompson Twins and many, many more.
I also wrote the YA book Hottie which has been described, not by me but accurately, as Clueless meets X-Men. It's packed with as much comedy, action, unrequited crushes, requited crushes and destruction of designer clothes as I could pack into 320 pages.
It's ridiculously over-the-top sequel was titled Burning Ambition.
I'm also the author of Knickers In A Twist which is a dictionary of British slang that addresses Cockney rhyming slang, TV catchphrases, pop-culture references, swearing and incomprehensible abuse that I brought with me from my native Scotland.
My first book was called Pretty In Pink: The Golden Age Of Teen Movies which was an extremely un-intellectual look at the 80s, taking in every genre from slasher to gross-out and paying extended homage to the John Hughes canon.
I also write the occasional screenplay, with the Disney evergreen Max Keeble's Big Move, Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan, Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector (I've got a mortgage, okay?) and the upcoming Jackie Chan movie The Spy Next Door to my name.
As I mentioned, I was raised in Scotland, spent some time in New York and moved to Los Angeles a few years ago.
I'm on Facebook and you can also find me on www. jonathanbernsteinbook.blogspot.com where I talk more about Hottie, discuss the latest reality show that's making me mad but I can't stop watching and post videos of ancient Scottish comedians.
I've also started a blog for my slang dictionary. Bookmark www.knickersinatwistbook.blogspot.com and learn a new word or phrase every day. Some of them will stop you getting punched in the face. Others will get you hit even harder!
Bridget Wilder is an adequate daughter, an unexceptional student and a mediocre friend. She's just found out she's also the biological daughter of one of the world's most lethal and notorious spies, the legendary Carter Strike.
Now Bridget lives in two worlds. One, where her family forgets her birthday and so-called class clowns call her Midget Wilder to her face. And another world, where she's trained by a covert CIA department to become a fast, smart, fearless ,gadget-toting secret agent who's tough enough to take on the most fearsome of bad guys.
How many secrets can she keep? And how many secrets are still being kept from her. When you're a a spy-in-training, do you ever really know who you can trust?
I'm also the co-author of Mad World: An Oral History Of New Wave Artists And Songs That Defined The 1980s, which features brand new interviews with the likes of New Order, The Smiths, Duran Duran, Echo & The Bunnymen, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Human League, Dexys Midnight Runners, OMD, Thomas Dolby, ABC, Thompson Twins and many, many more.
I also wrote the YA book Hottie which has been described, not by me but accurately, as Clueless meets X-Men. It's packed with as much comedy, action, unrequited crushes, requited crushes and destruction of designer clothes as I could pack into 320 pages.
It's ridiculously over-the-top sequel was titled Burning Ambition.
I'm also the author of Knickers In A Twist which is a dictionary of British slang that addresses Cockney rhyming slang, TV catchphrases, pop-culture references, swearing and incomprehensible abuse that I brought with me from my native Scotland.
My first book was called Pretty In Pink: The Golden Age Of Teen Movies which was an extremely un-intellectual look at the 80s, taking in every genre from slasher to gross-out and paying extended homage to the John Hughes canon.
I also write the occasional screenplay, with the Disney evergreen Max Keeble's Big Move, Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan, Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector (I've got a mortgage, okay?) and the upcoming Jackie Chan movie The Spy Next Door to my name.
As I mentioned, I was raised in Scotland, spent some time in New York and moved to Los Angeles a few years ago.
I'm on Facebook and you can also find me on www. jonathanbernsteinbook.blogspot.com where I talk more about Hottie, discuss the latest reality show that's making me mad but I can't stop watching and post videos of ancient Scottish comedians.
I've also started a blog for my slang dictionary. Bookmark www.knickersinatwistbook.blogspot.com and learn a new word or phrase every day. Some of them will stop you getting punched in the face. Others will get you hit even harder!
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
June 13, 2012
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
-from "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
BURNING AMBITION begins much quicker and with more excitement than HOTTIE. Unfortunately, the Department of Hotness has peaked (which you can read in an excerpt here). There are no supervillians in Beverley Hills and soon the friends begin fighting. Dorinda and Kellyn both fall for David. T, the boyfriend, insults Alison. So, Alison hangs up her crime fighting gear to become an intern at her favorite magazine, Jen.
At first things go well. But fifteen-year-old editor Pixie Furmanovsky is close to the edge due to her father's neglect . . . and then she gains superpowers. But the Department of Hotness is in no shape to keep her at bay - they lack the convention to stop her passionate intensity. To win the day, the young teens will have to overcome their hormones to take down the tyke tycoon, and we all know how difficult that is when you're fifteen.
Sometimes BURNING AMBITION gets anvilicious. Ignoring your friends is bad. Ignoring a single coworker is bad. Ignoring your children is bad. Torturing people to get them to date you is bad. (Okay, so the last isn't really anvilicious. But it bears repeating.) Of course, BURNING AMBITION needs a strong moral center to counter-act the running joke of pee-filled balloons.
On the other hand, BURNING AMBITION is mostly just a fun and quick read. Alison isn't a typical post-THE DARK NIGHT RETURNS superhero. She's a girl into fashion and her boyfriend, who sometimes has trouble helping her friends with their issues because she's too wrapped up in her own. Though the friends have issues, they fit well together. Unlike most books I can take the main characters fighting with each other because they take steps to be happy. As mentioned above, when upset with her boyfriend, Alison finds a job that she finds fulfilling. Yes, she wants to reconcile with him, but she doesn't just lay around moping about it. Or the fighting works because it's cartoony. Kellyn and Dorinda definitely go over the top trying to win the boy.
If you need something quick this summer, you might want to pick up HOTTIE and BURNING AMBITION. Both are good beach reads. And when you read them on the beach, no one you know will see the atrocious covers.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
-from "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
BURNING AMBITION begins much quicker and with more excitement than HOTTIE. Unfortunately, the Department of Hotness has peaked (which you can read in an excerpt here). There are no supervillians in Beverley Hills and soon the friends begin fighting. Dorinda and Kellyn both fall for David. T, the boyfriend, insults Alison. So, Alison hangs up her crime fighting gear to become an intern at her favorite magazine, Jen.
At first things go well. But fifteen-year-old editor Pixie Furmanovsky is close to the edge due to her father's neglect . . . and then she gains superpowers. But the Department of Hotness is in no shape to keep her at bay - they lack the convention to stop her passionate intensity. To win the day, the young teens will have to overcome their hormones to take down the tyke tycoon, and we all know how difficult that is when you're fifteen.
Sometimes BURNING AMBITION gets anvilicious. Ignoring your friends is bad. Ignoring a single coworker is bad. Ignoring your children is bad. Torturing people to get them to date you is bad. (Okay, so the last isn't really anvilicious. But it bears repeating.) Of course, BURNING AMBITION needs a strong moral center to counter-act the running joke of pee-filled balloons.
On the other hand, BURNING AMBITION is mostly just a fun and quick read. Alison isn't a typical post-THE DARK NIGHT RETURNS superhero. She's a girl into fashion and her boyfriend, who sometimes has trouble helping her friends with their issues because she's too wrapped up in her own. Though the friends have issues, they fit well together. Unlike most books I can take the main characters fighting with each other because they take steps to be happy. As mentioned above, when upset with her boyfriend, Alison finds a job that she finds fulfilling. Yes, she wants to reconcile with him, but she doesn't just lay around moping about it. Or the fighting works because it's cartoony. Kellyn and Dorinda definitely go over the top trying to win the boy.
If you need something quick this summer, you might want to pick up HOTTIE and BURNING AMBITION. Both are good beach reads. And when you read them on the beach, no one you know will see the atrocious covers.
November 5, 2012
Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com
You thought Hottie and her friends were done after the first novel? Think again! The Department of Hotness is back! What a fun series!
Alison Cole and her band of friends have taken it upon themselves to fight crime in their city. The most hysterical encounter is when they take out the PBG gang. Okay, I'd love to tell you what that stands for, but why take all the mystery out of it???
Alison enters the contest to be America's No. 1 Jen Girl. Jen magazine is Alison's Bible. When she actually wins, she's in Heaven. What Alison will soon discover, though, is that working at Jen may just be Hell.
At first, the 15-year-old Editor-in-Chief, Pixie, becomes Alison's BFF. But Pixie is bipolar, and when she doesn't get what she wants, she goes ballistic. Alison discovers this fairly early on and the rest becomes a nightmare. Pixie discovers a gorgeous dress at one of her daddy's research divisions, and finds that it has amazing powers. Powers that are far stronger than Hottie's gifts.
Alison and the Department of Hotness have to face their toughest enemy yet in the teenage Pixie. Throughout the story, Alison's friends have issues of their own, and Alison and her boyfriend, T, also have to deal with the one-sidedness of their relationship.
I don't know if there will be any other books in the HOTTIE series, but if so, I'll be in line to read them. Alison is such a strong, take-charge character, and her friends are so neurotic that you can't help but laugh out loud at their adventures.
You thought Hottie and her friends were done after the first novel? Think again! The Department of Hotness is back! What a fun series!
Alison Cole and her band of friends have taken it upon themselves to fight crime in their city. The most hysterical encounter is when they take out the PBG gang. Okay, I'd love to tell you what that stands for, but why take all the mystery out of it???
Alison enters the contest to be America's No. 1 Jen Girl. Jen magazine is Alison's Bible. When she actually wins, she's in Heaven. What Alison will soon discover, though, is that working at Jen may just be Hell.
At first, the 15-year-old Editor-in-Chief, Pixie, becomes Alison's BFF. But Pixie is bipolar, and when she doesn't get what she wants, she goes ballistic. Alison discovers this fairly early on and the rest becomes a nightmare. Pixie discovers a gorgeous dress at one of her daddy's research divisions, and finds that it has amazing powers. Powers that are far stronger than Hottie's gifts.
Alison and the Department of Hotness have to face their toughest enemy yet in the teenage Pixie. Throughout the story, Alison's friends have issues of their own, and Alison and her boyfriend, T, also have to deal with the one-sidedness of their relationship.
I don't know if there will be any other books in the HOTTIE series, but if so, I'll be in line to read them. Alison is such a strong, take-charge character, and her friends are so neurotic that you can't help but laugh out loud at their adventures.
April 3, 2013
This book, like the 1st one, is one of the best novels in the world. Also I wrote a Fan Sequel to this book called Hottie 3: The Best Fan Fic in the World.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews