DNF at 51%.
I told myself I would read this book at least 50% through to see if it would get better, it didn't. The entire premise of this book is a teenage girl writing about her high school life and the fact that nothing happens, and this is literally all the book is about. I kept waiting for something to happen, either for me to click with the narrator, or for an event to take place that would keep me intrigued, but neither of these happened.
I get what Barrows is trying to do here, YA books can sometimes be written around this premise and be engaging, cute and entertaining but I found the two girls in this book to be unlikeable, the way they speak made me roll my eyes more than once, and I did not care about their every day lives at all.
A friend and I were recently lamenting the fact that it is hard to find strong, female characters in YA books these days (think Looking for Alibrandi and Tomorrow When the War Began female characters) and this book certainly didn't provide.
- I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review.