apatrick1982 's review for:

Cracked Up to Be by Khristine Hvam, Courtney Summers
4.0

3.5 stars

I kept hearing about Courtney Summers so I decided to go back and read her first novel. I was a bit skeptical because the title is blech and the cover is extra-blech. And on the surface, the plotline - a super popular girl rebels and is no longer popular because of the incident at a high school party and you spend the whole book wondering "What happened?!?!"- I feel like it's been done before.

However, the MC Parker is fascinating and awful and hilarious and just so irrevocably damaged that I kept rooting for her.