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The Last Beautiful Girl
by Nina Laurin
Hoooooooo-ey.
This was a Thing.
So... The book takes off around 100 pages in, a little under a third of the way in. From this point on there is actually a decent spooky/mystery factor. This is what gets the book three stars.
But sweet Christ catapulting over a crocodile farm, do you have to slough through Isabella Brixton to get there.
This might be one of my least favorite main characters of any story I have ever read. She is the most obnoxious, spoiled, entitled, god-awful brat: Anyone who tells her what she wants to hear is perfect, and anyone who calls her out is an asshole. In those first hundred pages, she postures incessantly about her feminism.
I've included specifics in my updates for the book, but this ranged from "dress codes are sexist" (they are not, get over yourself) to demanding to know if her mother would be asking her to help out more if she were a boy (oh my GOD you spoiled little beast) to saying that the word "DRAMATIC" is just "a sexist word to describe a woman who's passionate about what she does", which will become increasingly hilarious as you plug along into the novel and get a feel for what an overly-dramatic little princess this girl is.
She gets mad that there's no wi-fi, and smashes her phone. She calls a man "pompous and annoying" (LOL) because he warned her that the floors in the house were unstable and that she should be careful. She acts like a little snit when she gets her phone taken away in class, and says that the teacher should "get with the program" because everyone has phones now. What a chore it is to pay attention to a teacher when he's talking.
There's so much more. Isa is the WORST.
LOL SHE WAS NEVER GOOD. She was never nice, never cool, never special: She was a spoiled brat who thought she could do whatever she wanted because her parents raised her to think she walked on water.
Spoiler: She survives, which is extremely disappointing. I was rooting for OG Isabella.
The only reason this book is getting three stars instead of one is because there are hints that the author is self-aware about the character she's written, in a few conversations between her parents and a couple of interactions with Nick. I am willing to believe that the POV is just heavily skewed because we see 90% of the book from Isa's incredibly messed up perspective.
This was a Thing.
So... The book takes off around 100 pages in, a little under a third of the way in. From this point on there is actually a decent spooky/mystery factor. This is what gets the book three stars.
But sweet Christ catapulting over a crocodile farm, do you have to slough through Isabella Brixton to get there.
This might be one of my least favorite main characters of any story I have ever read. She is the most obnoxious, spoiled, entitled, god-awful brat: Anyone who tells her what she wants to hear is perfect, and anyone who calls her out is an asshole. In those first hundred pages, she postures incessantly about her feminism.
I've included specifics in my updates for the book, but this ranged from "dress codes are sexist" (they are not, get over yourself) to demanding to know if her mother would be asking her to help out more if she were a boy (oh my GOD you spoiled little beast) to saying that the word "DRAMATIC" is just "a sexist word to describe a woman who's passionate about what she does", which will become increasingly hilarious as you plug along into the novel and get a feel for what an overly-dramatic little princess this girl is.
She gets mad that there's no wi-fi, and smashes her phone. She calls a man "pompous and annoying" (LOL) because he warned her that the floors in the house were unstable and that she should be careful. She acts like a little snit when she gets her phone taken away in class, and says that the teacher should "get with the program" because everyone has phones now. What a chore it is to pay attention to a teacher when he's talking.
There's so much more. Isa is the WORST.
Spoiler
When she gets possessed by Isabella Granger, everyone's like "Oh, this isn't the Isa I know! She's different and terrible now!"LOL SHE WAS NEVER GOOD. She was never nice, never cool, never special: She was a spoiled brat who thought she could do whatever she wanted because her parents raised her to think she walked on water.
Spoiler: She survives, which is extremely disappointing. I was rooting for OG Isabella.
The only reason this book is getting three stars instead of one is because there are hints that the author is self-aware about the character she's written, in a few conversations between her parents and a couple of interactions with Nick. I am willing to believe that the POV is just heavily skewed because we see 90% of the book from Isa's incredibly messed up perspective.