Review: It Started with a Dare by Lindsay Faith Rech.

Posted September 14, 2010 by Rowena in Reviews | 2 Comments


Main Characters: CG Silverman, Alona, Grace and Sumara, etc.
Series: None

Self-proclaimed nobody CG Silverman sees her move to an upscale new school as her chance to be somebody different. Her devil-may-care attitude attracts the in-clique, and before CG realizes it, a routine game of truth or dare launches her to iconic status.

While this rebel image helps secure CG’s newfound popularity, it also propels her through a maze of unprecedented chaos, with each new lie and every dare opening doors that, in most cases, were better off left shut.

CG is on a collision course with disaster. Will she be able to keep up the façade? Or will the whole world find out she’s a fraud?

This is the first book that I’ve ever read by Lindsay Faith Rech and I will give it to her for writing a story that I couldn’t for the life of me put down. As much as I wanted to walk away from the book, I couldn’t. I hate these kinds of books where a life is built up on a bunch of lies because when the crap hits the fan, I kept wanting to punch CG in the face.

I remember being a teenager and telling the little white lies so that you could come off cool but when you start telling lies that could ruin people’s lives…it’s not cool.

The things that CG did to be apart of the “cool crowd” with Grace, Alona and Sammie made me want to punch her. Repeatedly. She’s a complete fraud. She lied to everyone about everything and I knew that her time for comeuppance was going to come…I just didn’t count on liking her afterward.

I guess if this was real life, I would be a true friend to CG, haha. I still wanted to be her friend after all was said and done. The thing about this was CG learned her lesson and when it counted most, she was honest. She did a lot of growing as a person over the course of this book and I enjoyed the ride.

Getting to know CG wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be going into this book but I’m glad that I stuck it out because I ended up liking the story and her okay.

She wasn’t at her best when she was friends with Alona and Grace. She was this fake fraud of a person and I didn’t like her at all. The whole thing with Mr. Fenowitz left a total bad taste in my mouth and even though I knew that he’d get over it, a part of me didn’t want CG to have a happy ending because of what she did to Bill. I really felt bad for him but because I’m a softy, I forgave CG in the end and when we finally meet Alex, I was glad.

Overall, this book was entertaining. While CG is spewing her lies, you can’t help but get wrapped up in it all but when Glory finally lights into CG, I was so glad. I was so glad that someone was able to call CG out on her crap and get her priorities in line again. She does a lot of groveling that I was totally on point with so the book ended the way that it was supposed to end and everything was great but even with all of that stuff squared away, most of my enjoyment of this book stemmed from waiting for CG to get her just desserts in the end.

It was an enjoyable way to spend a few hours but I’m not sure I’d ever re-read this book because I don’t think my heart could handle something like this story again. =)

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2 responses to “Review: It Started with a Dare by Lindsay Faith Rech.

  1. Mmm, sounds complicated, I think. and I know what you mean, I hate when the whole thing is based on lies and you know at some point things will just blow up in her face.

    😀

    I like your review though.

  2. The thing about this book was for a huge chunk of the book, we’re watching as CG lies her way around everyone and everything, it got annoying after a while.

    Thanks!

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