Hollywood, Ending

Green’s novel of betrayal and survival, trust and love is a fluent condemnation of the machine of commercialization and a paean to art . . . A spellbinding, tender, incisive, funny, and compassionate story of love and creativity.

Booklist, starred review

Wise, tender and engaging

People, Book of the Week

Sharply relevant in today’s landscape of constant attention and the pressure of a public life

Today

Green’s storytelling is astute, empathic, and magnetizing

Booklist, starred review

Green’s a tender writer whose abiding concern through all his work is what it takes to remain decent in a ruthless and impersonal world. Once, that might have seemed a sentimental question. Today, it is more crucial than ever

Slate

A love story but also an interrogation of modern stardom, art and the struggle to be real in a social media-fueled world of artifice and performance. Come for the Hollywood intel, stay for the breathtaking passages

US Weekly

In the author’s anguished portrait of modern fame, the most challenging performance is that of an authentic self . . . Kai emerges vividly on the page. Green depicts the young man’s bewilderment with radiant empathy

New York Times

Thought-provoking and captivating

Daily Beast

In an era in which more and more people must market themselves on social media, courting the dizzying highs and crushing lows of fame, Green still hopes we’ll find something better

Guardian

It’s been nine years since Green last published fiction, but this story about what fame does to the people inside it is well worth the wait

Good Housekeeping

A classic portrait of young love

Kirkus, starred review