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Title: Not impressed
Review: This wasn't a terrible book - I read it all the way to the end - but I was kind of waiting for it to end. I cared just enough about the characters to see what was going to happen to them. <Spoiler alert> Every character is a cliche - the codependent, needy wife; the husband who wants to abdicate his responsibilities and takes up with a prostitute; an anorexic girl; and a girl who cuts herself with razors and Swiss army knives. Marquit's jaded, in-your-face style, with liberal use of profanity and a Darwinian view of high school, is one-sided. Her characters are GOOD or BAD, not multi-dimensional. As far as the plot goes, I got the sense that most of this stuff had never happened to her, and she was going for shock value rather than authenticity. For a high school experience that is rendered in living, breathing, convincing color, I would recommend Curtis Sittenfeld's PREP instead.
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