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How to Break a Boy - Laurie Devore

11.05.2018 - 20.05.2018 (see my review on goodreads)

2 stars out of 5

Olivia is a Mean Girl. But she isn’t THE Mean Girl. She’s basically her southern town’s equivalent to Regina George’s best friend. And she has a tragic backstory™️: her dad died when she was very young, her mom freaked and moved her and her brother to a small town in the South of the US. Then, after she became a mean girl, her alcoholic brother died. So, on top of being already quite bitchy and not very likeable, she becomes even more closed of. Then her best fried, Adrienne (THE Mean Girl), sleeps with her boyfriend. All hell breaks loose in Olivia’s mind. She manages to get the resident Golden boy to prentend to date her and schemes.

As you can probably tell from my summary (and the rating), I’m not a big fan of this book. The first 100 pages were a pain to get through for some reason. I probably think it’s because I can’t find a single thing I have in common with Olivia that would make me empathize with her, and that resulted in me not liking her AT ALL. And not liking the protagonist of a novel written in first person narrative is not good.

However, I loved the way it was written. Laurie Devore’s writing is what made me decide to push through despite me not really enjoying the story. After I got over me not liking Olivia at all, the words seemed like they were flowing just right.

All in all, if you like mean girls, are into high school popularity stories and all that kind of stuff, this book is just right for you. However, if you don’t like that type of thing, many pick something else.

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See I wanna read this and hope I’ll like it but it sounds too similar to Winner Take All. The characters do anyway with the mean personalities. I need fluff and stuff. The characters can still be mean but have a redemption arc. Or at the very least not be psychotic

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“Right. Lack of opportunities,“ Daddy says. "Corporate America don’t bring jobs to our communities, and they damn sure ain’t quick to hire us. Then, shit, even if you do have a high school diploma, so many of the schools in our neighborhoods don’t prepare us well enough. That’s why when your momma talked about sending you and your brothers to Williamson, I agreed. Our schools don’t get the resources to equip you like Williamson does. It’s easier to find some crack that it is the find a good school around here. "Now, think ‘bout this,” he says. “How did the drugs even get in our neighborhood? This is a multibillion-dollar industry we talking 'bout, baby. That shit is flown into our communities, but I don’t know anybody with a private jet. Do you?” “No.” “Exactly. Drugs come from somewhere, and they’re destroying our community,” he says. “You got folks like Brenda, who think they need them survive, and then you got the Khalils, who think they need to sell them to survive. The Brendas can’t get jobs unless they’re clean, and they can’t pay for rehab unless they got jobs. When the Khalils get arrested for selling drugs, they either spend most of their life in prison, another billion-dollar industry, or they have a hard time getting a real job and probably start selling drugs again. That’s the hate they’re giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That’s Thug Life.”

Starr Carter from The Hate U Give

Author: Angie Thomas