Another mean girls book.
Sofia Flores is the new kid at Adams High School in Mississippi. She’s used to moving around a lot, her mom is a medic in the army and her father is apparently not in the picture.
Her mom is distinctly non-religious, despite her heavily religious mother and Sofia’s abuela. The town that they have moved to is DECIDEDLY religious.
The “cool kids” being the most religious of all. She meets Brooklyn, apparently the town’s lone goth girl, then meets Riley, Grace, Alexis and the rest. Riley seems to have a grudge against Brooklyn, and after a dead, skinned cat is found under the bleachers, Sofia volunteers to serve as a double agent, spying in Brooklyn for Riley, and on Riley for Brooklyn. At Brooklyn’s party, Sofia sees Brooklyn making out with Riley’s boyfriend. Then the book goes off the rails. (No pun intended)
“I’m going to get the evil out of her.” –Merciless, Danielle Vega
At this point, the story decided that it needed an exorcism. That’s not a metaphor. Riley and the others decide to do an exorcism on Brooklyn. Because obviously her actions meant that she was full of the devil!
Of course it’s not really an exorcism, it’s more like a torture session. And these righteous girls get way more than they can handle.
Coming off the heels of Girls on Fire, my last review, this rates extremely poorly. The prose is sub-par, and the meanness of the girls that the story was trying to portray really was just psychosis. Another book without a single like-able character.
Sofia Flores is the new kid at Adams High School in Mississippi. She’s used to moving around a lot, her mom is a medic in the army and her father is apparently not in the picture.
Her mom is distinctly non-religious, despite her heavily religious mother and Sofia’s abuela. The town that they have moved to is DECIDEDLY religious.
The “cool kids” being the most religious of all. She meets Brooklyn, apparently the town’s lone goth girl, then meets Riley, Grace, Alexis and the rest. Riley seems to have a grudge against Brooklyn, and after a dead, skinned cat is found under the bleachers, Sofia volunteers to serve as a double agent, spying in Brooklyn for Riley, and on Riley for Brooklyn. At Brooklyn’s party, Sofia sees Brooklyn making out with Riley’s boyfriend. Then the book goes off the rails. (No pun intended)
“I’m going to get the evil out of her.” –Merciless, Danielle Vega
At this point, the story decided that it needed an exorcism. That’s not a metaphor. Riley and the others decide to do an exorcism on Brooklyn. Because obviously her actions meant that she was full of the devil!
Of course it’s not really an exorcism, it’s more like a torture session. And these righteous girls get way more than they can handle.
Coming off the heels of Girls on Fire, my last review, this rates extremely poorly. The prose is sub-par, and the meanness of the girls that the story was trying to portray really was just psychosis. Another book without a single like-able character.
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