Not So “Ah-mazing.” Duh, Mom.

(Note:  The ending of this month’s book is revealed, so don’t read the final paragraph of this post if you want to be surprised!)

I should have known.  Call it a gut feeling, having “been there” as a teenage girl and remembering the type of books I read during those years (about mean girls you love to hate) but I really, really wanted to be wrong about The Clique Summer Collection: Massie by Lisi Harrison.  This novel is an installment in “The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series.”  I wanted there to be a profound, socially-responsible message to tween- and teen-age girls, grounded in the fab lifestyle of the filthy Southampton rich, that made this book and its counterparts fly off the shelves.

Wow, was I ever wrong.

Duh.

In short, this book is going in the trash.  Not in the recycle bin, not in the donation box.  It is going in the bin where the smelly stuff goes because the book stinks.

I could be finished with this post right here and now but I think it socially irresponsible to not tell you why I was disappointed in this book.  I read the last page and immediately thought, “Where’s the rest?  Where is Massie’s epiphany?  Or at least where is the incident where we can say, ‘serves-the-little-ahem right’?”  But no, the book was fully intact with not a page torn from it.  Then I realized, a little horrified, that the “heroine” of the story, Massie, became a thief and a fraud simply to get her way and what she wanted.  And got away with it.  The End.

Did I mention this lass is an eighth grader?

Yikes.

quick link: The Book Selection for April…Will it be “Ah-mazing?”