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A review by futurama1979
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
2.0
Disclaimer: this was assigned reading for my MG and YA class.
Honestly my least favourite book we've had to read for this course so far. I was so close to rating it one star but there were a few tiny elements I liked, namely the little section with the chant lyrics as a clue to figure out where the lost book was.
But in all honesty this was really hard to get through. A super dated obsession with gender and not being like other girls, a consistent and overdone gimmick of the MC being a feminist while she spews misogynist rhetoric constantly, and zero character development for said MC really turned me off of this novel. I'll probably not be picking up anything else by this author again.
Honestly my least favourite book we've had to read for this course so far. I was so close to rating it one star but there were a few tiny elements I liked, namely the little section with the chant lyrics as a clue to figure out where the lost book was.
But in all honesty this was really hard to get through. A super dated obsession with gender and not being like other girls, a consistent and overdone gimmick of the MC being a feminist while she spews misogynist rhetoric constantly, and zero character development for said MC really turned me off of this novel. I'll probably not be picking up anything else by this author again.