Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Loser/Queen by Jodi Lynn Anderson


Cammy is a nice invisible girl. She lives with her grandparents, volunteers at an animal shelter, is kind, generous and a good person. She is also clumsy, embarrassed, embarrassing, and frumpily dressed. When a mysterious texter, known only as the White Rabbit, offers her the chance to get back at the mean girl who makes fun of her, Cammy takes it. After the mean girl goes down the White Rabbit offers many more chances to be better looking and popular. All she has to do is follow orders. Most of the time the texts are nice things that help people out, but sometimes the texts ask her to play pranks. Soon things are out of control, she is lying to her friends, and she is losing the part of herself that was nice. Can Cammy figure out who the White Rabbit is and reclaim some of the good person that she was before it’s too late?


The book is interesting. I read it in one night because I liked the characters, but the story was a little slow. Most of what happened seemed a little improbable. Cammy’s friendship with Gerdie never came across as a really fun and happy one, but in the story they are supposed to be the best of best friends. Cammy is struggling with the bad things that she has done, but there’s nothing that bad about the things that she does. She makes new friends but never gets sucked into a dramatic elite group that makes you feel like she is in over her head. The story is not over the top, it’s incredibly realistic and many girls I’m sure will be able to identify with the story. I admire this more realistic portrayal of teen life, but I would have liked a little more cattiness and drama.



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