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A review by elena_gilbert
The Princesses of Iowa by M. Molly Backes
4.0
A beautiful, popular high school senior returns from a summer in France to maintain her social status at least long enough to become Homecoming Queen, all the while feeling out of place among her friends, who include a super bitchy best friend, a sprightly second best friend, and a bunch of football team assholes including one named Tyler? The Creative Writing teacher is replaced by a hot grad student teacher? YES, PLEASE!
Minus a star for what felt to me like insufficient character growth, although for taking place over the course of only a month, the main character did kind of turn her whole world upside down and start questioning everything about it. This book could possibly have benefited from multiple POVs, because it was hard to understand other characters' motivation and there were still unanswered questions by the end.
Also, the homophobia story line was lacking somehow, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Minus a star for what felt to me like insufficient character growth, although for taking place over the course of only a month, the main character did kind of turn her whole world upside down and start questioning everything about it. This book could possibly have benefited from multiple POVs, because it was hard to understand other characters' motivation and there were still unanswered questions by the end.
Also, the homophobia story line was lacking somehow, but I can't quite put my finger on it.