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kadyjak's review against another edition
3.0
Not a great literary masterpiece, but entertaining at least. It's hard to feel too much sympathy for Madison initially. When your protagonist has a car, a laptop, seemingly unlimited access to a credit card, no thoughts of ever earning a thing for herself, no apparent rules of behavior from her parents, and where her biggest problem is that someone hacked her profile, your first thought is not, aww, poor thing.... And she honestly did it to herself. No, she may not have posted those things online, but her hacker didn't write anything she hadn't already told other people. So yeah, not a lot of sympathy for that. But I'm glad that she actually grows through the book and understands why there's really no distinction between the two.
Her penchant for odd abbreviations was annoying too, but that's probably fairly realistic for a teenager. As obnoxious habits go, I suppose it could have been a lot worse.
Her penchant for odd abbreviations was annoying too, but that's probably fairly realistic for a teenager. As obnoxious habits go, I suppose it could have been a lot worse.
booksinherhead's review against another edition
4.0
So... Top 8's protagonist is a girl named Madison MacDonald. She is a typical high-school girl with 4 best friends, and a super hot boyfriend. But when she get's back from Spring Break, where she had no connections to the outside world, she finds her FriendVerse (Like a Facebook or MySpace) has been Hacked!!! And someone has posted all the horrible comments and secrets!!! It seems that nothing is ever going to be the same again.
The way this book appeared was very interesting. A few times, the book showed Madison's actual FriendVerse profile, which had all her info, and shows her "Top 8" (Wait, what the heck is a Top 8? On FriendVerse, you have a list of your Top 8 friends, and at Madison''s school, the order of people in your Top 8 is very serious.) The "meat" of the book is written in regular old chapters.
For the plot and content... The main part of the story is about Madison trying to find out who the heck her hacker was. Well, I got super annoyed with Madison, I thought she was kind of a bratty, oblivious person. Then, I saw through the story, which really ticked me off, because I wanted to really enjoy the story. I realized who the hacker was!!! It was so disappointing. But... I didn't see through the story enough to see something else, so I am sort of torn between weather I like this book extremely so or much.
In the end, I think I have decided that I will rate the book 4 stars, because I could still keep reading even after I had realized the hacker, and Madison ended up being a bearable character
snarkywench's review against another edition
2.0
This book didn't knock my socks off. I think the whole solution to having one's friendverse site hacked would be to delete it. Or is that just me? Despite this, I think it had an interesting message about dissing people behind their backs. The hackers (of which I guessed very, very early) parroted Madison's own comments about people on her myspace-like site while she was on vacation. So while she had been hacked, she couldn't really defend heself against the comments. An interesting predicament indeed.
The formatting throughout is very interesting as it shows Madison's actual profile page including the changing top 8 friends, comments and so on. This got a little old after awhile as the msn's were also included in the text. I am not against their inclusion but I have a problem when they are pretty pravalent in a novel. What I really did enjoy was the great songs and quotes listed at the start of each chapter. One of my student's (grade 8) read this book and really enjoyed it so maybe I am just being old and jaded? Or maybe it's just something to read
The formatting throughout is very interesting as it shows Madison's actual profile page including the changing top 8 friends, comments and so on. This got a little old after awhile as the msn's were also included in the text. I am not against their inclusion but I have a problem when they are pretty pravalent in a novel. What I really did enjoy was the great songs and quotes listed at the start of each chapter. One of my student's (grade 8) read this book and really enjoyed it so maybe I am just being old and jaded? Or maybe it's just something to read
megbarrett's review against another edition
lighthearted
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
this would be a guilty pleasure, except i refuse to feel guilty about it! a fun mystery about a girl figuring out who hacked her social media account. i have read this many times.
jennc's review against another edition
3.0
Cute and funny. A bit on the young side of YA but still enjoyable.
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