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naaaaaaaaat's review against another edition
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
exact same as movie script
charlie_dws's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
browney3dgirl's review against another edition
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
sebinsangel's review against another edition
2.0
Literally a word for word recreation of the movie. Not sure where the “original” content was. Only bright side is that some parts were told through other characters perspectives.
13iscute's review against another edition
2.0
I love the Mean Girls movie - so when I saw this at the library, I was excited to read a book based on the movie. Except... the book is exactly the movie. Line-for-line. What's the point? And why 13 years after the movie was released? (Wow, that makes me feel old.)
This book is fun for reliving the beloved movie... but you'd really be better off re-watching the movie instead.
This book is fun for reliving the beloved movie... but you'd really be better off re-watching the movie instead.
daramillz's review against another edition
2.0
I mean, if you want to watch the movie but instead of having time for that you have a multi-hour commute, then you can listen to this audiobook and basically replay the exact movie in your head. Except it’s not as good. Oh well. 🤷♀️
jugglingpup's review against another edition
2.0
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I just need to make a few things clear before I can begin: Mean Girls is one of my all time favorite movies. I have seen it enough that I can probably run through the whole movie by myself, line for line. I use “fetch” on a regular basis. I even wear pink on Wednesdays. I also know every line to all the musical numbers from the musical. I am that person.
Another major point that needs to be made: this book is based on the movie. The movie is not based on the book. I have only seen this done one other time and the results were terrifyingly bad. So I had little to no hope that this book would be good.
I was not let down, this book was pretty terrible. There were multiple times I could see Ostow trying to find a way to make the scene match the movie and still make sense. The book was first person, the movie was not. So there was obvious issues of adapting the jokes like the interviews of the students where they were talking about Regina George for example. Some of the best jokes in the movie were lost in the book because of this issue. I can’t blame Ostow for this, it is one of the issues I would expect adapting a movie into a book. There were times when this was done in a really good way, like the sex ed lesson, but it still fell flat since the punchline was still missed.
There were some added things like emails and texts between the characters. Some of the background characters got more of a role in the book then they did in the movie. Did this add enough to the story to say that there is a chance of learning the true story like the description boasts? Not even close. None of this book added to the movie. There were no extra scenes that would explain things differently. There was really nothing new. When a book gets adapted to a movie, then there are changes. I have been finding that when a movie gets adapted to a book, there is nothing new. There is no reason to read this book if you have seen the movie because the movie is better. The book loses the jokes and has weird issues where the story switches perspectives to other characters randomly. It was just not something I can recommend.
The writing itself isn’t bad. Ostow could write a story without issues. The issue is adapting movies to books really should not be done. Yet I will keep reading them hoping that one will be amazing. I would love to see what Ostow could do with a story of her own.
I just need to make a few things clear before I can begin: Mean Girls is one of my all time favorite movies. I have seen it enough that I can probably run through the whole movie by myself, line for line. I use “fetch” on a regular basis. I even wear pink on Wednesdays. I also know every line to all the musical numbers from the musical. I am that person.
Another major point that needs to be made: this book is based on the movie. The movie is not based on the book. I have only seen this done one other time and the results were terrifyingly bad. So I had little to no hope that this book would be good.
I was not let down, this book was pretty terrible. There were multiple times I could see Ostow trying to find a way to make the scene match the movie and still make sense. The book was first person, the movie was not. So there was obvious issues of adapting the jokes like the interviews of the students where they were talking about Regina George for example. Some of the best jokes in the movie were lost in the book because of this issue. I can’t blame Ostow for this, it is one of the issues I would expect adapting a movie into a book. There were times when this was done in a really good way, like the sex ed lesson, but it still fell flat since the punchline was still missed.
There were some added things like emails and texts between the characters. Some of the background characters got more of a role in the book then they did in the movie. Did this add enough to the story to say that there is a chance of learning the true story like the description boasts? Not even close. None of this book added to the movie. There were no extra scenes that would explain things differently. There was really nothing new. When a book gets adapted to a movie, then there are changes. I have been finding that when a movie gets adapted to a book, there is nothing new. There is no reason to read this book if you have seen the movie because the movie is better. The book loses the jokes and has weird issues where the story switches perspectives to other characters randomly. It was just not something I can recommend.
The writing itself isn’t bad. Ostow could write a story without issues. The issue is adapting movies to books really should not be done. Yet I will keep reading them hoping that one will be amazing. I would love to see what Ostow could do with a story of her own.
vampirebooklover13's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
lexiww's review against another edition
2.0
Cady spent the last 12 years of her life in the jungles of Africa. But starting high school in suburban Illinois? That’s where things get really wild. As 16-year-old Cady navigates the unfamiliar terrain of sophomore year, she’s thrust into learning about pack hierarchy and mating rituals of a totally new kind. Cady is befriended almost instantly by artsy Janis and Damian. But superpopular (and truly catty) Regina, queen of the Plastics—her entourage of doting gal pals—has her eyes set on Cady as well. Egged on by Janis and Damian, Cady sets out to subvert Regina’s social prowess . . . but begins to lose herself and control of the experiment in the process. When the pride turns on one another, the pack members go savage. Based on the screenplay by Tina Fey (itself an adaptation of a book), this movie novelization of Mean Girls extravagantly plays up the drama of teen social clashes. A fun—if flighty and redundant—read for fans of the film, this does exhaustingly play into potentially damaging tropes around adolescent beauty, power, and self-worth. Reader, beware.— Lexi Walters Wright, First published September 21, 2017 (Booklist Online).
ryleydoug's review against another edition
5.0
the story went by super fast and was very fast paced not only because i had watched the movie. it described what could’ve been regina’s emotions when she published the burn book.