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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
Oh my god. I'm brimming over with emotions now and this is gonna be one disorganized mess of a review but oh my god it was so good. It was so so good. I honestly almost cried. It was soo real.
I know all of you people out there, like my friends who hate flawed characters. There's something about them that make people annoyed you know? But for some reason I always look for a sort of flaw in my characters and I shamefully admit that I don't see many and when I do I feel just like my friends.
But this book. Bree. She was so so so flawed and relatable to your teen years + she's relatable just as a person. We're all flawed, we're all stupid and idiotic and maybe even broken in some way. We've all had that moment of crying in the bathroom, that moment of utter humiliation, that moment when you feel like the world is crashing down on your shoulders. And you know what? I didn't hate her for having her flaws. It made me love her even more than I could possibly love any other character I deemed okay. She did a lot of stuff that was wrong but what's to say we can't do anything wrong? She had a lot of growth throughout the novel and she had a personality. I didn't like her personality at first. She was boastful and it nagged at me. But she was HUMAN. And she had flaws. And she was just like me. She was strong and beautiful but at the same time idiotic and dangerous. And yeah the stuff that she did was hard to read through, I being such the sensible no flawed characters reviewer I am but it was TRUE. I don't know what wrecked me with this book but it did. It really did.
It was like a raw uncovering of everything you've been through in your youth. All the feelings, all the stupid choices, all the ignorance of that little sensible voice nagging at you.
And oh god. The meaning of the book. It was so strong and so real that it rang true.
I don't know what else to say.
I'll write again when I'm not in this kind of emotional after reading wreck.
Thank you for literature :)
I know all of you people out there, like my friends who hate flawed characters. There's something about them that make people annoyed you know? But for some reason I always look for a sort of flaw in my characters and I shamefully admit that I don't see many and when I do I feel just like my friends.
But this book. Bree. She was so so so flawed and relatable to your teen years + she's relatable just as a person. We're all flawed, we're all stupid and idiotic and maybe even broken in some way. We've all had that moment of crying in the bathroom, that moment of utter humiliation, that moment when you feel like the world is crashing down on your shoulders. And you know what? I didn't hate her for having her flaws. It made me love her even more than I could possibly love any other character I deemed okay. She did a lot of stuff that was wrong but what's to say we can't do anything wrong? She had a lot of growth throughout the novel and she had a personality. I didn't like her personality at first. She was boastful and it nagged at me. But she was HUMAN. And she had flaws. And she was just like me. She was strong and beautiful but at the same time idiotic and dangerous. And yeah the stuff that she did was hard to read through, I being such the sensible no flawed characters reviewer I am but it was TRUE. I don't know what wrecked me with this book but it did. It really did.
It was like a raw uncovering of everything you've been through in your youth. All the feelings, all the stupid choices, all the ignorance of that little sensible voice nagging at you.
And oh god. The meaning of the book. It was so strong and so real that it rang true.
I don't know what else to say.
I'll write again when I'm not in this kind of emotional after reading wreck.
Thank you for literature :)
Mean girls: the novel.
I found this book enthralling but also kind of uncomfortable. It's very much a learning from poor life choices book.
I found this book enthralling but also kind of uncomfortable. It's very much a learning from poor life choices book.
I did not expect that this book would be so enjoyable & amazing
ew ew ew.
I absolutely despise this book
gave up at 65 per cent but im counting it as a full read because I wasted 5 hours on it
I absolutely despise this book
gave up at 65 per cent but im counting it as a full read because I wasted 5 hours on it
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Self harm
Read this in English. This was a good read, like Bourne's books are. It's about Bree who wants to be a writer. She's a loner at school, with only one friend, and she doesn't even want to belong with the others. Then she hears from the teacher she adores, that she needs to be more interesting, to get a life to write better. So that's what she does, a little makeover, getting close to the most interesting girls at school and there - she's more interesting and more popular - what at what price, is it worth it?
She writes a blog about her manifesto and journey to be more interesting and that's eventually what saves her. This is quite a thick book but I read it in a couple of day, it was that interesting! So, a good recommendation for younger and older readers.
She writes a blog about her manifesto and journey to be more interesting and that's eventually what saves her. This is quite a thick book but I read it in a couple of day, it was that interesting! So, a good recommendation for younger and older readers.
This would have got 5 stars had it not been for the ridiculously overdone plot.
The entire book is a cliche; unpopular girl going under a transformation to become popular and then it all come crashing down towards the end before she sees the light and realises it's not even about being popular after all. Yeah, cliche.
But, unlike a lot of books that take this route, The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting had a fascinating protagonist who got a lot deeper into the whys and hows of popularity. The books also tackles a lot of very present issues in society, issues that books of a similar plot can tend to skate over far too briefly.
I had high hopes for this book after reading Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne, and in comparison to that, this book didn't even come close. But judged solely as an individual book, there are more great things than not great things and I really did enjoy reading it. Overall, this book was good. Not great, but definitely not bad by any means.
The entire book is a cliche; unpopular girl going under a transformation to become popular and then it all come crashing down towards the end before she sees the light and realises it's not even about being popular after all. Yeah, cliche.
But, unlike a lot of books that take this route, The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting had a fascinating protagonist who got a lot deeper into the whys and hows of popularity. The books also tackles a lot of very present issues in society, issues that books of a similar plot can tend to skate over far too briefly.
I had high hopes for this book after reading Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne, and in comparison to that, this book didn't even come close. But judged solely as an individual book, there are more great things than not great things and I really did enjoy reading it. Overall, this book was good. Not great, but definitely not bad by any means.