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Prom by Ellie O'Ryan

nagam's review

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3.0

Reasons to read this book:

1. You want something fun and innocent, without any vulgarness or implications of sexuality.
2. You want a very lighthearted read that you can breeze through.
3. You like books with multiple points of view and knowing the full story from almost every perspective.
4. You REALLY like all things Diseny. :)

Reasons not to read this book:
1. It's incredibly predictable. Pretty much everything I thought would happen DID happen.
2. You like a lot of drama. There was an inkling of drama, but really not a ton. There wasn't a huge climactic point where everything seemed to be completely up in the air. Each character had his or her own problems all throughout the book.

Overall, this was a fun read. I don't really like that I don't know who the author was since this was put together after the Disney movie was made. It was written pretty well, but with a few too many exclamation marks for me. I am not the kind of girl that needs to be convinced something exciting is happening with the use of an exclamation mark.

My favorite character was the resident bad boy, Jesse. However, the whole book seems a little disjointed timeline wise, and it felt like it took half a day for him to whip himself into shape and fall in love with the girl.

theresidentbookworm's review

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5.0

Prom is the golden standard by which I measure all other movie novels against. Prom not only tells the story of the movie in the fleshed out way on words can, it does what every great movie novel should. It adds extra material. It has more substance to it, and I actually enjoy reading it more than I do watching Prom. Though I would rate Prom very high on my lists of movies about Prom. The list isn't really long, but still. Recommended!
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