Hollywood, Ending
New Release#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world.
“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, Reading Picks for Fall
“Green’s storytelling is astute, empathic, and magnetizing.” —Booklist, starred review
For rising talents Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve both been waiting for. They’re on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives—in exciting, but also terrifying, ways.
John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel brilliantly juxtaposes the on-screen study of Warhol’s life at the dawn of celebrity culture with the intimate struggles of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone.
Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only Green can tell it. Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.
- Pages
- 313
- First published
- September 22, 2026
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Ebook
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Shelved by 3 Litcadians
Reviews
Started September 29, 2026 · Finished October 3, 2026
Definitely a book that leaves a lasting mark on your heart. I picked this book up for a YouTube book club (Smosh Mouth), and was excited to read Green's first adult audience novel. I didn't know what to expect going in, I only read the description, which did not prepare me for the true story the book would be trying to tell. Trigger/Spoiler warning ahead! The true story of this book lies in the traumas we can face, and how we survive afterwards. While Kai's trauma from child molestation really shocked me and made me put the book down to prepare for what was ahead, it was written in a way that as a survivor of SA myself, felt so real. Juniper's trauma was also one where the complicated aspects of her abuse show in the grief of a person who is no longer there. It's not a simple thing to navigate, nor to heal from. It surprises you when those memories resurface in ways you aren't prepared for, and can really derail you from finding satisfaction in something you are putting your everything into. This book will stick with me for a while, and I'm glad I stuck through until the end.
