Main Characters: Winter, Rey
Series: None
What’s the best revenge when your best friend ditches you for the popular crowd? Alyson Noël reveals all in her hot new young adult novel.
As freshmen at Ocean High last year, Winter and her best friend Sloane thought they could ditch their nerdy past, launching from invisible to cool. But after another miserable year of standing on the sidelines they make a pact to do whatever it takes not to go unnoticed in their sophomore year, promising each other that whoever makes it into the cool group first will bring the other along.
One Sloane gets a taste of life on the A-list, she slams that door in Winter’s face. Suddenly cast out of her former best friend’s life, Winter takes revenge the modern way: by announcing all of Sloane’s dirty little secrets on an anonymous blog. Then the blog becomes more popular than she ever dreamed and Winter must decide if her retaliation is really worth the consequences — and if the price for popularity is one she’s willing to pay. Once again, Alyson Noël navigates the tricky waters of the high school social scene with the heart and humor her readers have come to love.
The blurb for this book is what drew my interest. The whole revenge blogging had me curious to see how Alyson Noel would write it and I’m glad to say that I enjoyed her efforts. This book isn’t this deep thinking novel. It’s a book about a pair of girls who stopped being best friends because one of the best friends got popular and the other one got left behind.
Nobody likes to be left behind and it was no different for Winter but in Winter’s case, not only was she left behind but Sloane was a jerk to her. When Winter fled to New York for some Daddy-Daughter time, I was one part outraged that she would take off the way that she did but one part relieved because she needed space away from Sloane and everything to regroup. I thought that she’d come back from New York a different and better person but the way that she obsessed over every little thing about Sloane, under the guise of “research” for her blog made me want to smack some sense into her.
What really made this book for me was the little romance between Winter and Rey. I adored Rey right from the jump and watching them get things wrong time after time, kept me invested in their story because I wanted them to get it right and when they finally do get it right, I sighed a breath of relief because I knew that he was into Winter and I was glad to see that I wasn’t wrong. It was also a relief to see those two get together because it was another smack upside Sloane’s face because of Sloane’s new crush on Rey.
This book was about karma and how you should treat others as you wish to be treated. Winter wasn’t the best person but she learned her lesson and she realized that being petty isn’t going to change things and it’s not going to make her feel better and when she cleans up her act, I cheered her on.
This book was a quick weekend read that made me smile and I enjoyed it for the light, fluffy read that it was. Winter was a great main character and I enjoyed getting to know her, Rey and her family. Sloane was an itchy b word who got what she deserved and this book was really a great way to spend a few hours. Kudos to Ms. Noel on a job well done. I was entertained.
…and that’s your scoop,
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