A review by joyagoffney
At Face Value by Emily Franklin

3.0

My critiques: Franklin used a lot of parenthesis to clarify her points and to further explain when she could have just included them as sentences. I didn't enjoy that stylistic choice. Also, her mean girl, popular clones were often very commercial, which is fine I suppose, but it didn't seem very realistic. Lastly, the story was very outdated given that the story revolved around teenagers using email to message each other which does not happen and definitely won't happen in the future. However, I do commend Franklin on writing an interesting book that revolved around a crush and teenage angst. It was very simple, and yet still entertaining. Not a waste of time.