The Other Story is a novel by Tatiana de Rosnay. It is the story of Nicholas Kolt, a French author who doesn’t handle his rise to fame well.

When his one and only book becomes a bestseller, then an Oscar winning movie, he starts leading the high life and becomes addicted to following himself on Facebook, Twitter and all internet and social networking sites.

The main character is so unlikable, that it is hard to care about anything in this book. I found it tiring. There is a mystery at the heart of the novel concerning his missing Father, but that never fully plays out, and it is too little to save this very disappointing book.

Skip this one and try Sarah’s Key by the same author.