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3.5 stars
In Cracked Up To Be, Courtney Summers really shows how cruel high school-aged girls can be. The main character, Regina struggles with both addiction and popularity.The author paints a picture of the horrible things that can go down in High School like rape, alcoholism, abusive relationships, and struggling to fit in. This quote from the book shows the reality and harshness of the teenage years and High School. “Imagine 4 years.Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two pregnancies (one a...
Courtney Summers’ This Is Not a Test turned out to be one of my favorite books of 2012, though I never would have guessed it. Thus, I was thrilled to get a review copy of What Goes Around, which conveniently contains the two Summers books I have yet to read. I do not know what I’ll do with my life now that I have no more Courtney Summers. All the Rage needs to hurry up.Read the full review at A Reader of Fictions.
Liked the second story more than the first one. The second one was pretty intense.
Because I've read and reviewed them before, separately, this is going to be an unusual review. It's not so much about these particular books as why you need to read Courtney Summers.This omnibus is the perfect introduction to this author. Her books tend to be pretty bleak. There's humor, but it tends to be incredibly dark and sardonic (my favorite kind of humor). Ultimately, though, it's an incredibly realistic portrayal of high school. This isn't Grease or even Mean Girls; this is Welcome to th...
In the first half of the book, Cracked Up to Be, Courtney Summers gives you a look into how cruel some girls can be in high school. The main character Regina, struggles with popularity and addiction. This book gives you an inside look at the reality of high school. In Cracked Up to Be Regina struggles with loosing friends, loosing her popularity status, and being raped. Here is a quote that is relatable to many high school students, "Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two pregnancies...
3.75/5 Stars
CRACKED UP TO BEGrade: C-Perfect, popular, Parker has never been a nice girl, but since she turned to drinking after her best friend went missing, she's taken uber-bitch to a new level. If Courtney Summers didn't write with such raw, compelling voice, I probably wouldn't have finished CRACKED UP TO BE. Yes, Parker was a complicated character and she carried pain with her, but in real life, I haven't seen a lot of teenagers have so much pain that this was an excuse for acting like they didn't car...
Fantastic read, especially for high school students!
Really liked this, both books had their strengths and weaknesses.Cracked Up to Be: I really enjoyed Parker's ability to just bulldoze people with sheer honesty and by not giving a single fuck about social conventions and the like. She is not unsociable because of some quirk or whatnot or because she doesn't understand people or anything like that.She does, she knows people, knows how communication works, how people use little lies and ignore some things to be civil and talk and she ignores all o...
I'm rating it for the first part of the book only. 'Cracked up to be' is mesmerizing and I love Parker's voice so much. Everytime she opened her mouth to say something, I tried to up her by saying someting back--something wittier, smarter, bitchier--but I failed. Parker was unbeatable :) I love both Chris and Jake, but I'm leaning toward Chris more. Okay. A lot. I'm pretty sure majority of the readers would take Jake's side, but boy, do I adore Chris. xoxo...I DNF-ed the second part 'Some Girls
god I forgot how good reading crap about mean girls and high school drama could be
The first half of the book, Cracked Up to Be, gave a real thought on how rude some people can be to others in high school. Regina was one of the main characters and she had problems with popularity and what turned into addiction. Regina struggled with losing her friends and popularity and being raped. One of the quotes from the book that I felt describes how high school drama is, “The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You’re not responsible for everything. You can’...
At first, I was really excited to read this book but I was just sooo disappointed at everything. The characters to me were so cliche and I could not realte to any of them. Idk why this book has high ratings. In my opinion it was an epic FAILURE!
Content wise it would have had more stars but I really didn't like any of the characters.
I am currently reading this book 📚 as of today Tuesday 7/14/2020 chapter 3 page 25, my best friend Ashley Robinson mailed me this book with a lot more Christmas 🎄 gifts a entire box full of Christmas gifts Christmas 🎄 2018, so it was really a nice thing for her to do for me. :)
publisher: St. Martin's PressYAMan, being a teenager is hard. Reading these brings back so many memories. Luckily I didn't experience some of the things these girls experienced. Flailing, feeling like what your peers think is the most important thing in the world, feeling like no one understands you, not having anywhere to turn... those are universal teenager experiences that this book, really these two books, address.In Cracked Up To Be, Parker Fadley was once one of the golden children of her
Wonderful duo. Can't wait for Summers' next.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid girls.
This book is on my TBR stack. It contains Cracked Up to Be and Some Girls Are, the latter of which was originally a book on the reading list of West Ashley High School for this summer, but then pulled because of parent protest. What happened next is very cool, much cooler than banned books. Book lovers of the internet rose to the occasion and have supplied literally hundreds (yes, hundreds. 830 at the last count, I think) of copies for teens to read. Read about the adventure here. I have picked
