By Rachel Vail
What an eye opening read, I enjoyed this quick read fairly well. This book has you one enthralled and engaged from the first page. Meet a group of students in Middle School, they are all trying to either be popular or remain popular. Middle school everyone is worried about perception and being accepted by your classmates. Beautiful friendly Brook rules the school, she is friendly and outgoing and has a crush on her best friend Clay. Clay is mr. Cool, he is athletic and all of the girls like him. His problem is that his perfect older brother just went away to college and he is struggling with his own identity. Natasha dated Clay briefly and is very self centered, she wants to be the queen bee and plots to overthrow Brook. Meet Truly, she was Natasha's best friend until 6th grade, she wants to be liked by everyone, she joins the populars through a Natasha ploy. Unfortunately, she leaves her best friend Hazel by the wayside, angered and hurt.
As the story progresses other characters come into play, but the mechanizations of Hazel and Natasha destroy Truly's confidence and self worth. They manipulate circumstances making Truly believe that she is a bad, evil individual, which is far from the truth. Jack, who has a crush on Truly is one of the fw people believe in her innocence. What this book really shows is how quickly things can spiral out of control in today's technology laden world. Cyber- bullying is a very real and dangerous situation. Smarrt phones and anonymous apps are the rage, and people are feeling emboldened by their hidden identity. Does everyome back together, who ends up being popular or on the fringe, you gonna have to read the book to find out.
This book did a few things extremely well, it highlighted the dangers of apps, social media and cyber bullying which is necessary in today's environment. It also altered the view point to each of the main characters, each chapter is from a different perspective. So most of major occurrences you will see from varying characters eyes. I am giving this book a 4 out of 5 stars, I am marking it down because I felt that the chunk of the climax was missing. In fact, I thought I missed part of the book and reread the last couple of chapters a few times. I do think this book is a great read and encourage any student from 5th grade up to give it a try.
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