Kayla Cagan

Art Boss is about a college bound girl who loves to create art and wants to be in New York doing all the things art people do. She is hired to recreate her artwork for a fashion show and begins to question herself, her artwork, and how it belongs a s a business versus her emotional attachments. This is a fun, easy and light hearted read with a young girls hopes for a bright future doing what she loves. This would be a great book for any budding artist to read. I received this book for free from Library thing.… (altro)

Prepare for the creative genius that is PIPER PERISH (both book one AND the girl)...and friends! Once upon a time, every artist had to start SOMEWHERE. Whether their preferred outlet is paint, sculpture, video, music, fashion, jewelry, or any of the many other forms of artistic expression out there, they all started with a dream, a desire, a talent that needed molding, cultivating, and exposure. Don't tell that to Piper, Kit, and Enzo because honey, they already know! High schoolers or not, they have the talent, know what they want, and (mostly) how to get it...if only the world would cooperate and stop with the proverbial monkey wrenches. Those wrenches present themselves in numerous ways from college acceptance gauntlets to relationship drama, friendships turned competitions to familial battles, and everything in between. The work-throughs are colorful, vibrant, and powerful with long lasting repercussions carried forward for better or worse. Piper's all so certain future turns into a big fat question mark as her friends and family fall into various shards of sharp beauty around her. With her artistic inspiration firmly in grasp, and a twist of her creative mind in a new direction, it doesn't mean that her journey is at an end...just perhaps an unexpected beginning...


**copy received for review… (altro)

ART BOSS...I was happy to see the title phrase in book one, but surprised to see it applied to our girl Piper for book two. Happily surprised, mind you, but still, the shift was unexpected. Anywho, this time around, our fabulous girl Piper is taking on the Big Apple, meeting new friends while holding on to those long bonded with, and figuring out just how to make her art AND her mark in the world! It's not the future she dreamed of, but it's definitely a learning experience and with some fairly notable names to boot! I mean, it's not every day one gets to be involved in New York Fashion Week, am I right? A world of possibilities is at her feet, but the walk is gonna be anything but paved in gold. From creative roadblocks to personal struggles, artistic challenges to dream crushers, it's enough to smash anyone's spirit...but then again, you have to know Piper. She's not the girl to take things lying down...well, for long at least...and she's definitely not one to give up (after a good pep talk, either from herself or her besties)! Suffice it to say, this is one rise to fame you won't want to miss!


**ARC received for review… (altro)