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A review by geo_ix
How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot
2.0
It's meant to be about how she wants to be all popular and that, and it is. It’s a complete show of how being 'popular' is. Basically, she’s the most unpopular kid in school, she finds one of them self help type books that's old and gives you steps to being the most popular. So she changes herself to match whatever the book says exactly, even if she loses her soul in the process.
I mean, I'll only judge the girl on her naivety. She’s just so daft. Seriously. Everyone around her is so lovely. She has a crush on her best friend since they’re kids, and she mistakes his embarrassment as anger when she calls him out as a kid about picking on each other meaning he likes her. Then she just thinks he came back to be her friend when she had no one because he’s a good person. Then there’s the fact she pervs through his window every night. Not from her bedroom, no she goes upstairs to her bathroom. Sits in the dark. And stares. With binoculars. Totally normal....
I wanted to reach into my kindle and slap her a million times. But of course, the other characters made up for her stupidity. I did kind of enjoy the story, and it was very fast paced and easy to read, even for something that’s probably written for someone in Primary School, and start of high school, I don’t know, maybe 11-14 year olds…
I mean, I'll only judge the girl on her naivety. She’s just so daft. Seriously. Everyone around her is so lovely. She has a crush on her best friend since they’re kids, and she mistakes his embarrassment as anger when she calls him out as a kid about picking on each other meaning he likes her. Then she just thinks he came back to be her friend when she had no one because he’s a good person. Then there’s the fact she pervs through his window every night. Not from her bedroom, no she goes upstairs to her bathroom. Sits in the dark. And stares. With binoculars. Totally normal....
I wanted to reach into my kindle and slap her a million times. But of course, the other characters made up for her stupidity. I did kind of enjoy the story, and it was very fast paced and easy to read, even for something that’s probably written for someone in Primary School, and start of high school, I don’t know, maybe 11-14 year olds…