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A review by imallmadhere
The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch
4.0
I added this to my bookshelf in preparation for #YALLFest where author Katie Crouch would be a speaker. Having just finished it I am quite glad I stuck with it. I wasn't going to write a review but then I saw all the negative reviews and felt it important to add another opinion.
This book was a slow starter for me. The main character Alex is not a very strong personality, she seems completely dependent on those around her for affirmation. Additionally her being the "fat" girl is a constant in the first half of the book. Later in the story she loses twenty pounds or so and is skinny so her denotion of fat in the beginning seems even less realistic. However getting past all that there is a unique setting and concept here something new in the field of the paranormal YA category.
Alexandria Lee is returning to Savannah to live with her grandmother after her mother's tragic death in a car crash. Her mother raised her in california on a communal farm surrounded by free loving hippies and the occasional pot smoking. So moving to the old south to live in a mansion with her very formal seemingly traditionalist grandmother is quite the shock. Add to that the new membership in The Magnolia League a debutante society which has something very odd about its members. Alex is a member by virtue of her birth and stands to be the next head of the magnolias but there is something too perfect about all these girls. They are too pretty, too skinny, too rich and Alex knows something is up...
This book was a slow starter for me. The main character Alex is not a very strong personality, she seems completely dependent on those around her for affirmation. Additionally her being the "fat" girl is a constant in the first half of the book. Later in the story she loses twenty pounds or so and is skinny so her denotion of fat in the beginning seems even less realistic. However getting past all that there is a unique setting and concept here something new in the field of the paranormal YA category.
Alexandria Lee is returning to Savannah to live with her grandmother after her mother's tragic death in a car crash. Her mother raised her in california on a communal farm surrounded by free loving hippies and the occasional pot smoking. So moving to the old south to live in a mansion with her very formal seemingly traditionalist grandmother is quite the shock. Add to that the new membership in The Magnolia League a debutante society which has something very odd about its members. Alex is a member by virtue of her birth and stands to be the next head of the magnolias but there is something too perfect about all these girls. They are too pretty, too skinny, too rich and Alex knows something is up...