Hollywood, Ending by John Green
Publisher: Dutton Books
Publication Date: September 22, 2026
Format: Hardcover - 304 pages
Paperback - 416 pages
Audiobook - 8 Hours 41 Minutes
Kindle - 291 pages
Nook - 368 pages
ISBN (Hardcover): 978-0525426073
ISBN (Paperback): 979-8217422227
ASIN (Audiobook): B0GSTNXDQF
ASIN (Kindle): B0GSTLM6HS
BNID (Nook): 978-1101592434
Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
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Book Description:
A behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story that brilliantly confronts the private cost of a public life
For rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve 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 follows Kai and Juniper from their first days on location to the movie’s premiere, brilliantly juxtaposing their story with the on-screen study of Warhol’s life at the dawn of celebrity culture.
Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold onto. Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only Green can tell it.
My Book Review:
In Hollywood, Ending, author John Green weaves an intriguing story about a pair of rising young actors who are finding their way in Hollywood, and how they try to balance a public and private life within the celebrity culture.
Juniper Castillo has been a child star since she was six years old, now at the age of twenty-two she is poised to film her first adult movie, a biopic on the final year of Andy Warhol's life, and she is determined to make it in Hollywood as an adult actor.
Kai Laramie is a twenty-one-year-old up and coming actor who is making his first movie and is looking to make it in the Hollywood movie industry.
Set in Pittsburgh, PA, the reader is easily drawn in as they follow the filming journey of Juniper and Kai as they are on location to shoot the film. For Juniper it is all business and how to make it, while for Kai it is all new to him and becomes quite overwhelming even though he's a natural. While on the set, Juniper and Kai lean on each other with a blossoming friendship. As the shoot comes to a close and the film's media junket kicks in, it's a time of tension and trying to find a balance between their private and public life. Can their budding relationship stand the pull of Hollywood's celebrity culture?
Hollywood, Ending is an intriguing tale that takes the reader behind Hollywood's curtain and easily keeps them engaged as they follow Juniper and Kai's story. I really enjoyed following the filming process on location, and how two people who are so different come together and form a bond that gets them through the filming journey. I was intrigued by Juniper and Kai's backstory, and how they've both suffered trauma in their childhood which continues to follow them into adulthood. Their partnering helps them both rediscover their personal selves while challenging them with how to deal with fame in the Hollywood industry as well as an unexpected chance at finding real love and happiness in their lives.
There was a great mixture of emotion, drama, angst, banter, humor and crazy antics mixed in this story. The author does a great job of describing Juniper and Kai's lives, and how their undeniable chemistry slowly becomes something much more real as they find a balance in their private and public lives.
Hollywood, Ending is an enjoyable behind-the-scenes Hollywood romance story.
Rating: 4 STARS
About The Author
John Green is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything is Tuberculosis. His first novel in nine years, Hollywood, Ending, was recently published on September 22nd, 2026.
John’s books have won many prizes, including an Audie Award, an Edgar Award, the Michael L. Printz Medal, and a Los Angeles Book Prize. Green’s books have been published in more than 55 languages and over 60 million copies are in print worldwide.
John grew up in Orlando, Florida and currently lives in Indianapolis with his family.
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