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A review by sunshine169
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4.0
As a forever fat girl, and one who was bullied in high school for it, I went through a whirlwind of emotions with the character Callie. Most of the book she was very fat shamy. Every opinion she had about Millie revolved around her looks.
She also made light of the fact that she participated in the total destruction of Millie's Uncle's gym. Callie and her dance teammates were angry that the gym pulled their funding. Instead of getting mad at the school board for not funding them in their first place, they took out their anger on the gym without thinking about why funding was pulled. Obviously the place couldn't afford it anymore. Destroying it as a prank does nothing to help the situation. Callie was the only one recognized in the video so she took the blame for it and didn't rat out her teammates. This was both silly and commendable... and her only redeeming quality early in the novel. I honestly didn't start to like Callie until near the end when she had her "awakening" and all of a sudden saw Millie as her best friend.
I have been known to neg a book for this kind of character but recently I realized that a bad attitude character doesn't mean it is a bad character. It is just realistic that people have these thoughts and at least Callie was able to grow away from them.
Millie is a bad ass.
Read this book.
She also made light of the fact that she participated in the total destruction of Millie's Uncle's gym. Callie and her dance teammates were angry that the gym pulled their funding. Instead of getting mad at the school board for not funding them in their first place, they took out their anger on the gym without thinking about why funding was pulled. Obviously the place couldn't afford it anymore. Destroying it as a prank does nothing to help the situation. Callie was the only one recognized in the video so she took the blame for it and didn't rat out her teammates. This was both silly and commendable... and her only redeeming quality early in the novel. I honestly didn't start to like Callie until near the end when she had her "awakening" and all of a sudden saw Millie as her best friend.
I have been known to neg a book for this kind of character but recently I realized that a bad attitude character doesn't mean it is a bad character. It is just realistic that people have these thoughts and at least Callie was able to grow away from them.
Millie is a bad ass.
Read this book.