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skinnygetout's review against another edition
3.0
A pretty fun read. The plot of this book reminded me so much of Mean Girls, that I kept saying, "On Wednesdays we wear pink" in my head I read. There is the requisite amount of cattiness going to far, a revelatory moment of regret, and promises of better behavior in the future. Pretty typical in that regard, but there are enough plot hooks to keep it interesting.
usef's review against another edition
3.0
i know a lot of people hate this book for being very cliche and having the mean girls trope but i kind of enjoy that trope for some weird reason, yet i didnt really like how it was portrayed in this book ?
this book is a relic of its time, it was published in 2013 if im not wrong and that is very painfully obvious with all of the references, i chuckled at some but a lot where really cringey :/
its supposed to be written in like the pov of the main charachter, who is a teenager, and i think the author pulled that off kind of well, but sometimes it felt weird
i cant say anything good about this book without adding a but.
this book is a relic of its time, it was published in 2013 if im not wrong and that is very painfully obvious with all of the references, i chuckled at some but a lot where really cringey :/
its supposed to be written in like the pov of the main charachter, who is a teenager, and i think the author pulled that off kind of well, but sometimes it felt weird
i cant say anything good about this book without adding a but.
book_nut's review against another edition
2.0
It's basically Mean Girls in print form (and yes, I rewatched the movie to make sure). I wanted something unique, something different. And all I got was a semi-graphic blow job. (Yeah, I know it was supposed to be funny.) Disappointing.
operasara's review against another edition
4.0
Confessions of a Hater by Caprice Crane is a fantastic book that follows former nerd Hailey as she moves across the country. In her new town Hailey decides to reinvent herself following the rules she found in her sister's diary. She bands together with the invisible kids at school to take down the popular kids.
This is a fun book that will be enjoyed by readers who loved the movie Mean Girls. Hailey is a fun character who gets in a lot of hijinks that are fun to read about. I flew through the book enjoying every juicy and fluffy moment. It wasn't the most original story but it was fun.
Approrpiateness: This book is full of adult content that is fine for teen readers but not really anything that parents would want their middle school readers reading. It's got sex (including a couple fairly graphic oral sex moments), drugs and drinking. I recommend this book to readers 14+
Review copy provided by Amazon Prime
This is a fun book that will be enjoyed by readers who loved the movie Mean Girls. Hailey is a fun character who gets in a lot of hijinks that are fun to read about. I flew through the book enjoying every juicy and fluffy moment. It wasn't the most original story but it was fun.
Approrpiateness: This book is full of adult content that is fine for teen readers but not really anything that parents would want their middle school readers reading. It's got sex (including a couple fairly graphic oral sex moments), drugs and drinking. I recommend this book to readers 14+
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zaicaner's review against another edition
3.0
The story behind it was okay. I wasn't too crazy for this main characters. She really did annoy me. i am also not really sure I like the other characters as well. I know that there is a ship in this book and sadly I did not ship the ship.
mkschoen's review against another edition
3.0
I did like this book. I liked it better when it was the movie "Mean Girls," though. Seriously, if you've seen Mean Girls you know the entire plot. Still, the writing was funny and the plot moved quickly, and definitely worth it for a teen.
wackyykacky's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
i accept this book for what it is- a product of society in the 2010s! that said, this was so hard to get through and all of the diet talk (with no acknowledgement of the weirdness of the diet talk) made me CRINGE!
ithinkitsme's review against another edition
1.0
I only finished this book because I wanted to see if it'll get any better. It was boring, uninteresting, and cliche. I had to force myself to finish it and I'm not any more impressed than I was. I thought this would be a story about embracing individuality or something, but I just couldn't like Hailey, who isn't any different than Skylar.
wistyallgood's review against another edition
4.0
Not so long ago, though it feels like years, I went on a walk with my father and we got into a big discussion about books. I told him that I've always had this fantasy of someone suprising me for my birthday with a book. That's right. Never, in my life, had anyone gotten me a book for my birthday, even though it is well known that I'm a book lover. To this, my dad said that he would buy me a book. I was so excited by this, it was kind of ridiculous. Anyway, time passed, and my dad hadn't bought me a book yet. Making sure not to sound ungrateful (because I wasn't- just excited), I brought it up to him. It turns out, he was nervous. He really had no idea what to get me. I gave him detailed instructions on where to go in Barnes and Noble, but eventually he decided that the best course of action was to take me to B&N and let me pick out the book of my choice. Obviously, this was a very exciting idea, but I still wanted the experience of someone picking out a book for me.
So we get to B&N, walk up a flight of stairs, and I lead my dad to the YA section. Then I tell him to pick a book for me. He picked this very book for several reason:
- It was literally the first one he saw and he wanted to get this nerve-wracking time over with (the pressure I put on him was a lot to handle!)
- He thought the cover was cool, as do I.
- The author's first name is Caprice, and my dad's beloved old 88' Chevrolet Caprice is currently sitting in our driveway.
- I feel like this needs to be repeated: it was the first book he saw. Within maybe 10 seconds of us being there, this was his book of choice.
Anyway, for him, our trip was over, and it was time to go pay. I thought that was hilarious, because one cannot simply spend less than a minute in B&N. That's just a ridiculous notion. So he went off to look at some other books nearby while I meteiculously perused the whole YA section. By the end, I had picked 4 other books besides this one that I really wanted. Now, to me, 5 books was an astronomical number to buy. I had rarely bought books in the past because I had such a killer local library, but it had recently shut down for renovations so I was desperate for good reading material.
The way I saw it, my dad would fulfill his promise and pay for this book, and I'd pay for the other 4 from my somewhat limited cash supply. But to my complete shock and amazement, my dad decided to treat me and bought ALL 5 BOOKS FOR ME! I was equal parts thankful and apologetic for months after that. But I was also so freaking happy. I cleared a special space on my book shelf, which barely had any books on it, and lined all the books up nicely, and I would just stare at them for hours.
Fast foward to right now. Since that day, my dad and I have gone back to B&N way too many times, and my single bookshelf has expanded to become my own personal and beloved library. I got a summer job to make more book-spending money ( I, of course, put most of that money into savings because I'm not a complete idiot), and I met a lot of life-long friends there.
Point being, the way I see it, a whole new chapter in my life began that day that my dad bought me those 5 precious books. (Thus is actually the only one of those 5 that I've read because they're all just too sacred to read!) It encouraged me to start my own library, to get a job, to read more- and it all started with my dad choosing this very book for me. So for that, this book will always hold a very special place on my heart.
As for the actual book, the first half was the best thing ever. I laughed,my mom laughed when I read her certain lines, I related, I nodded many times. I just utterly loved it, fully expecting it to me a 5 star book. (There's even a sentence in there that gave me an idea for a whole essay for class!)
Then at about the 60% mark, things escalated into I don't even know what. I'm pretty sure my smile faded starting with that little sexual scene. Do 15 year old 10th graders actual do that kind of thing? Man, you're a baby, and you're inner monologue was just...ew. Not to mention, my dad bought me this book. So that's horrifying to think about.
Then, suddenly the one book with normal parents became just another divorce story (seriously, YA authors, functional parents exist. I'd love to see more of that, because then I could relate to) A pet peeve: not every single character in a book has to be messed up. Normal people do exist. But in this book, suddenly an average group of friends contained a drug-addict, a shop lifter, and a girl who got pregnant freshmen year. Now I'm not judging, because a fictional story is a fictional story, but an average character would have been a nice way to balance it all out.
And the whole thing with Skylar was just ridiculous and Mean Girls-esque, and Skylar and Hailey's connection was positively soap opera-y.
But I still really, really enjoyed this book, even with its faults. I'll probably return to this one in the future, for sentimental reasons alone.
So we get to B&N, walk up a flight of stairs, and I lead my dad to the YA section. Then I tell him to pick a book for me. He picked this very book for several reason:
- It was literally the first one he saw and he wanted to get this nerve-wracking time over with (the pressure I put on him was a lot to handle!)
- He thought the cover was cool, as do I.
- The author's first name is Caprice, and my dad's beloved old 88' Chevrolet Caprice is currently sitting in our driveway.
- I feel like this needs to be repeated: it was the first book he saw. Within maybe 10 seconds of us being there, this was his book of choice.
Anyway, for him, our trip was over, and it was time to go pay. I thought that was hilarious, because one cannot simply spend less than a minute in B&N. That's just a ridiculous notion. So he went off to look at some other books nearby while I meteiculously perused the whole YA section. By the end, I had picked 4 other books besides this one that I really wanted. Now, to me, 5 books was an astronomical number to buy. I had rarely bought books in the past because I had such a killer local library, but it had recently shut down for renovations so I was desperate for good reading material.
The way I saw it, my dad would fulfill his promise and pay for this book, and I'd pay for the other 4 from my somewhat limited cash supply. But to my complete shock and amazement, my dad decided to treat me and bought ALL 5 BOOKS FOR ME! I was equal parts thankful and apologetic for months after that. But I was also so freaking happy. I cleared a special space on my book shelf, which barely had any books on it, and lined all the books up nicely, and I would just stare at them for hours.
Fast foward to right now. Since that day, my dad and I have gone back to B&N way too many times, and my single bookshelf has expanded to become my own personal and beloved library. I got a summer job to make more book-spending money ( I, of course, put most of that money into savings because I'm not a complete idiot), and I met a lot of life-long friends there.
Point being, the way I see it, a whole new chapter in my life began that day that my dad bought me those 5 precious books. (Thus is actually the only one of those 5 that I've read because they're all just too sacred to read!) It encouraged me to start my own library, to get a job, to read more- and it all started with my dad choosing this very book for me. So for that, this book will always hold a very special place on my heart.
As for the actual book, the first half was the best thing ever. I laughed,my mom laughed when I read her certain lines, I related, I nodded many times. I just utterly loved it, fully expecting it to me a 5 star book. (There's even a sentence in there that gave me an idea for a whole essay for class!)
Then at about the 60% mark, things escalated into I don't even know what. I'm pretty sure my smile faded starting with that little sexual scene. Do 15 year old 10th graders actual do that kind of thing? Man, you're a baby, and you're inner monologue was just...ew. Not to mention, my dad bought me this book. So that's horrifying to think about.
Then, suddenly the one book with normal parents became just another divorce story (seriously, YA authors, functional parents exist. I'd love to see more of that, because then I could relate to) A pet peeve: not every single character in a book has to be messed up. Normal people do exist. But in this book, suddenly an average group of friends contained a drug-addict, a shop lifter, and a girl who got pregnant freshmen year. Now I'm not judging, because a fictional story is a fictional story, but an average character would have been a nice way to balance it all out.
And the whole thing with Skylar was just ridiculous and Mean Girls-esque, and Skylar and Hailey's connection was positively soap opera-y.
But I still really, really enjoyed this book, even with its faults. I'll probably return to this one in the future, for sentimental reasons alone.
familywithbooks's review against another edition
3.0
I wanted to give this book 5 stars, and up until the last 15% of the book it was well on its way to 5-stardomhood (is that a word? It is now!) It had all the makings of books I love and I was so ready to let my teenage neice near it. But then...it just changed. What started out as "Mean Girls 2.0" with a healthy dose of quick wit, sarcasm and pop culture references that fit, quickly reversed. The first few chapters went along nicely with the Mean Girls movie. New girl moves to new town, wants to reinvent herself, meets "nice" people vs "mean" girls, hangs out with mean girls but quickly realizes nice girls are where it's at! Only problem was the "nice" girls? They weren't so nice themselves.
In typical teenage fashion, the nice girls, dubbed The Invisibles, decide to take on the mean girls in a war of who can come out on top. But there's lying, there's cheating, there's drug use and a whole lot of in-fighting. And that was where the book lost me. At the end of the story, when the characters are "making up" I just kept thinking WHY? Why would these characters want to make up with each other when they are so mean to each other, even during the apology!! Cut your losses and find someone WORTHY. And the drug-use story? Were you just trying to fill pages? It was barely a storyline and felt like it wasn't necessary. If you aren't going to address and you're going to toss it away with 2 lines at the end of the book, then don't bother writing about it. If I related to that character, I would feel let down and feel even more that no one cares because even an author who brought it up can't talk about it.
I'm torn on this one. I think I may just stick to her books for adults from here on out. And I will warn my neice away from this unless she is reading it as what not to do/be!
In typical teenage fashion, the nice girls, dubbed The Invisibles, decide to take on the mean girls in a war of who can come out on top. But there's lying, there's cheating, there's drug use and a whole lot of in-fighting. And that was where the book lost me. At the end of the story, when the characters are "making up" I just kept thinking WHY? Why would these characters want to make up with each other when they are so mean to each other, even during the apology!! Cut your losses and find someone WORTHY. And the drug-use story? Were you just trying to fill pages? It was barely a storyline and felt like it wasn't necessary. If you aren't going to address and you're going to toss it away with 2 lines at the end of the book, then don't bother writing about it. If I related to that character, I would feel let down and feel even more that no one cares because even an author who brought it up can't talk about it.
I'm torn on this one. I think I may just stick to her books for adults from here on out. And I will warn my neice away from this unless she is reading it as what not to do/be!