This review can also be found at BookShelfery.FAMOUS IN LOVE by Rebecca Serle is so fracking adorbs! If you love contemporary YA romance, this is for you! 
 Paige Townsen is your typical American girl: she goes to school in a suburb of Portland (at least I think it was Portland), she works at a little shop part-time for spending money and she gets good grades. She's also had the same best friends since she was in grade school. But Paige has acting ambitions, and when she gets cast in the biggest teen blockbuster of the year, her life starts spinning out of control. 
 Enter Rainer and Jordan, the sexy leading men of LOCKED (the movie they are filming). Rainer is warm and friendly and Paige has this connection to him that makes her feel secure and less like an island. However in all her scenes with him, she struggles as an actress. With Jordan, her connection is hot and sizzling, not even the cool rain on the beach in Hawaii can put it out. And she manages to nail every scene with him. 
 (Yep, we have ourselves a love triangle and I don't mind. I know who I'm rooting for. I'm putting it on record now that I am Team Jordan!) 
 Anyway, her interaction with both boys was done well. It was really easy to see why she fit with each of them and why she had a hard time making decisions about them, and let's face it, they didn't make things easy on her. Yes, there is a bit of insta-love. But it's explained and I totally get it. Paige is in a place she's never been before, and one of them reminds her of home. She is of course going to latch on to that and look at things through rose-colored glasses. Where she lacks chemistry with Rainer, she makes up for it in spades with Jordan. Everything between them is spicy and delicious. 
 Friendships also struggle in FAMOUS IN LOVE. Which makes sense, right? Paige is ripped from her middle-class America environment and all that entails, to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. Not physically Hollywood but proverbially. All of a sudden, she is on the cusp of being famous; she is being recognized around town in Hawaii, several people have asked for her autograph, and magazines have named her the next big thing. It's everything she thought she wanted. But it is coming at the expense of some important things in her life. Like her friendships. I enjoyed seeing the reality of what the industry can do to someone like her. 
 I do wish Serle had explored more of Paige's struggles with her friends and family. They get some paige time (hahahaha - I crack myself up) but not enough to really get to the meat and bones of the issue. 
 That ending? Damn. Can't wait for book two.