3 out of 5 This book has all the classic clichés of a Middle Range YA novel; predictability, romance, fawning girls, social media, evil popular chick and backstabbing BFFs. Despite all these things, it was a short and sweet YA novel, it is what it is. It does not in any way evoke massive personal revelation or use amazing literature; but it is a nice and easy coming-of-age read with classic laughs and puns. Kath McKenny struggles with the cliques at her school as all teens do in YA; but she has a date to the end-of-term party with her forever-crush, he even publically confirmed on social media. Until he updates his status; taking the new giggly, pretty, well-developed Lana Elliot instead. After getting over the massive humiliation, her best friend Chay talks Kath into the ultimate revenge plan; create a perfect - and very fake - online guys for Lana, once she falls for him, they'll show what a brutal dumping feels like. |
This was a classic YA romance book, I found it to be an easy flowy read, I actually read it on holidays so I never felt compelled to finish it in one go. I had flirty romance and backstabbing, and was simply a cliché YA novel.
Of course with the 3-star rating I have some issues with this book -
- It was hugely predictable; I could see every plot twist coming from a mile away, in a way, it was ok as I wanted an easy holiday read, but it was in no way a brain jerking novel.
- The characters had no depth; every single character despite Sebastian, were very shallow and boring. They all seemed to be very alike and almost carbon copies or one another.
- Some plot inclusion were extremely unnecessary; I won't spoil it, but Sebastian's revelation at the end was not necessary. We are explained that the secret he's hiding affects his family and therefore Lana, but it was an unnecessary ideal.
It was a cute and sweet read, but not one that will leave you shell shocked, it's one that is going to my archive shelf - won't re-read. All in all an ok YA novel that sits mid-range and is simply something easy to be read when you don't feel like really trying.
Hayley xx