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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
"Inspired by the work of Tina Fey and William Shakespeare" is not a sentence I ever thought I would read, and yet it brings me great joy! As a lover of both Mean Girls, and the works of William Shakespeare, I quite loved this book! It was so fetch!
You know you are truly enjoying a book when you are super sad that you've reached the end of it. That was the case with this one.
Fly and fetch yourself a copy of this book at once!
You know you are truly enjoying a book when you are super sad that you've reached the end of it. That was the case with this one.
Fly and fetch yourself a copy of this book at once!
Plot
Did you see Mean Girls? Did you read anything Shakespeare? That's lit-ra-ly all you need to know. But if you haven't seen Mean Girls, it's about Kady, new high student who's been homeschooled her whole life in South Africa by her mom [and somehow has no accent]. Her first week of school is spent with two outcasts, one was childhood friends with the girl who is currently the queen bee. That queen bee invites Kady to the popular table, where they explain their rules of popularity. Kady's outcast friends encourage her to infiltrate the popular group, and as she does she is falling into their ways and leaving her other friends behind. Things escalate, and the burn book with comments on their peers is shared with everyone.
Review
The title tells you what to expect if you're familiar with both references, and I think Doescher did a great job with this mashup! It's a fun inclusion in an English teacher's collection if they're teaching Shakespeare [or not].
Also, the audiobook is EXCELLENT because it is a full-cast recording! That's why it gets 5 stars =)
Contains: bullying
Washyarg September 2019
for 8th+
Did you see Mean Girls? Did you read anything Shakespeare? That's lit-ra-ly all you need to know. But if you haven't seen Mean Girls, it's about Kady, new high student who's been homeschooled her whole life in South Africa by her mom [and somehow has no accent]. Her first week of school is spent with two outcasts, one was childhood friends with the girl who is currently the queen bee. That queen bee invites Kady to the popular table, where they explain their rules of popularity. Kady's outcast friends encourage her to infiltrate the popular group, and as she does she is falling into their ways and leaving her other friends behind. Things escalate, and the burn book with comments on their peers is shared with everyone.
Review
The title tells you what to expect if you're familiar with both references, and I think Doescher did a great job with this mashup! It's a fun inclusion in an English teacher's collection if they're teaching Shakespeare [or not].
Also, the audiobook is EXCELLENT because it is a full-cast recording! That's why it gets 5 stars =)
Contains: bullying
Washyarg September 2019
for 8th+
Embarrassingly, the only way I could easily get through the Shakesperian English was knowing Mean Girls inside and out. This was really fun, though!
Quick and fun. I enjoyed finding the Shakespearean equivalent of my favorite quotes.
Mean Girls is an absolute cult classic film and personally one of my all time favourites, and now Ian Doescher (author of the Shakespearean Star Wars books) has made it his own and Shakespearised it. If you haven't seen Mean Girls (I'm shocked that I'm still meeting people who haven't seen it) then here's the story...
Cady Heron, our heroine, moves from Africa where her parents were research zoologists to North Shore High where she has no understanding of life as an American teenager. After struggling to find her place in the school's hierarchy she's eventually befriended by outcasts Janis and Damien who warn her to fear The Plastics - three girls at the absolute top of the popularity food chain. When by chance Cady is invited to have lunch with The Plastics she's encouraged by Janis to infiltrate their elite group. What ensues is drama, political intrigue and a case of star-crossed lovers, absolutely everything William Shakespeare himself was a huge advocate for.
This book was hilarious, told in Elizabethan/Shakespearean English with a blend of Tudor culture with 2000's technology for here we have 16th/17th century Ladies and Sirs all using phones and going to the mall.Bar the language, there are very few differences between this Shakespearean tragedy and the original movie but it was great fun to see how the wealth of super quotable one-liners that Mean Girls boasts becomes Shakespearised - some are perhaps even more quotable than the their modern counterparts.
If you're looking for a quirky gift for a Mean Girls fan (or if you fancy putting on the play) then you must pick this book up. Super fun and easily readable in an hour or so.
Thank you to NetGalley and Quirk Books for letting me read this early in exchange for an honest review.
Cady Heron, our heroine, moves from Africa where her parents were research zoologists to North Shore High where she has no understanding of life as an American teenager. After struggling to find her place in the school's hierarchy she's eventually befriended by outcasts Janis and Damien who warn her to fear The Plastics - three girls at the absolute top of the popularity food chain. When by chance Cady is invited to have lunch with The Plastics she's encouraged by Janis to infiltrate their elite group. What ensues is drama, political intrigue and a case of star-crossed lovers, absolutely everything William Shakespeare himself was a huge advocate for.
This book was hilarious, told in Elizabethan/Shakespearean English with a blend of Tudor culture with 2000's technology for here we have 16th/17th century Ladies and Sirs all using phones and going to the mall.Bar the language, there are very few differences between this Shakespearean tragedy and the original movie but it was great fun to see how the wealth of super quotable one-liners that Mean Girls boasts becomes Shakespearised - some are perhaps even more quotable than the their modern counterparts.
If you're looking for a quirky gift for a Mean Girls fan (or if you fancy putting on the play) then you must pick this book up. Super fun and easily readable in an hour or so.
Thank you to NetGalley and Quirk Books for letting me read this early in exchange for an honest review.
As a lover of Mean Girls (more so the musical than the film, though I did grow up watching the film) and an intense lover of Shakespeare, this was right up my alley. A quick and easy read but thoroughly entertaining, especially if you know the film frame by frame. It was so interesting to see how the author translated Mean Girls to classic Shakespearian text, I also enjoyed the references to some of my favorite Shakespeare plays (especially Regina saying "If I be waspish, best beware my sting" a personal favorite quote of mine) as well as how each of the female characters embodied one of Shakespeare's female characters.
If you enjoy Mean Girls and Shakespeare take a little time to read this, you'll be entertained.
If you enjoy Mean Girls and Shakespeare take a little time to read this, you'll be entertained.
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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What a fantastically funny read. I didn't really like the William Shakespeare Star Wars books, I couldn't get into them, but here the style seemed to fit perfectly. My only regret is that I couldn't source the movie itself to watch; I think a readalong would have been amazing. Ah well, next time it's on!
REceiving an ARC did not affect my review in any way.
REceiving an ARC did not affect my review in any way.