March 8th, 2016
Publisher:
Amulet Books
Paloma High School is ordinary by anyone’s standards. It’s got the same cliques, the same prejudices, the same suspect cafeteria food. And like every high school, every student has something to hide—whether it’s Kat, the thespian who conceals her trust issues onstage; or Valentine, the neurotic genius who’s planted the seed of a school scandal.
When that scandal bubbles over, and rumors of a teacher-student affair surface, everyone starts hunting for someone to blame. For the unlikely allies at the heart of it all, the collision of their seven ordinary-seeming lives results in extraordinary change.
Review:
*I was provided a copy by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
Sometimes when I’m reading ARCs I try to go to the book with low expectations and the same happened with this one. When I started this book I already knew that it would have 7 POV’s and that scared me a little bit because sometimes when the different POV’s aren’t that well done it ruins a book. However, I was pleasantly surprised how well the different POV’s were written and how much I enjoyed this book. I really enjoyed the plot and how everyone’s life ended up connecting by the end of the book. I can’t say that I liked every single POV because I didn’t. I really didn’t like Claire’s POV and her motivation behind the things she did and I didn’t like Juniper’s POV as much as the others because of the way it was written. I really liked the other characters, their stories and how they changed thought out the book. I also really enjoyed how the interaction between the characters and how by the end of the book these interactions might have helped the change in the characters life. Another thing that scared me was the teacher-student romance. I was really afraid how the author would handle this subject but in the end I think she did a great job and I really liked when she explained how everything had happened. Let me just tell you that when I read how everything started between the teacher and the student I started thinking of Aria and Fitz from Pretty Little Liars and how I loved them as a couple when I watched the show. The situation it’s pretty similar and it’s something that I could understand if it had happened. I was really happy that it wasn’t something creepy.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book (even more than I was expecting) and I can’t wait to read more books written by Riley Redgate. If you love contemporaries you should give this one a try.
Rating:
Have you read this book? If so, what did you think about it? If you haven’t read it would you read it?
I’m starting to think that maybe I should read this book… =) I’m glad you liked it.
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MAybe you should 😀
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Lol. It’s still available on netgalley…
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Are you going to request it? I think that they will take it of NetGalley soon. The archive date is Februeary 8. But you still have 1 month to read it if you request it.
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i don’t know… i have so many books behind =/ did you really like it? no eye rolling?
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I did like it but I know how it is to have a lot of book behind. There was this one character that I didn’t like a lot but it’s more like the Agatha of this book XD .
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lol, I could deal with an agatha. eheh. but I don’t think I’ll request it. I still have 19 books to review on netgalley, and until my number drops to 14, i’m not requesting anything more (unless it’s something i’ve been waiting for)
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I keep saying the same XD
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Good review! I’ve lately become more interested in the multiple POV story-telling. And I’ve seen this book getting a lot of attention, so these eARC reviews are really great at telling me what I want to know!
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I’m happy that you liked it. I also like multi POV’s but in some books it looks like you’re reading from the same person all the time. I really liked that in this one you could understand which character was «talking». The chapter always had the name of the character but it was still very easy to understand who POV was it because they were so different
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I requested this on Netgalley but got turned down
It seems like a great book, and one of my Goodreads friends really loved it! I’ll just read it when it actually releases haha. Great review Cátia 🙂
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I’m happy that you liked 🙂 . Sometimes they decline my requests in books I really want to read but what can we do? 🙂
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I really enjoyed this book too surprisingly too! It’s was a very solid debut. I disliked Claire’s POV as well, too whiny!
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I agree. And Claire was just terrible. I still can’t believe that she did what she did as revenge
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You know, it was so frustrating! Like no, that is not okay. I wished she had more karma backlash.
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Me too. How it was possible that they forgave her so fast?
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I’m sure Redgate just wanted a happy ending, because I thought it was odd too.
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It was probably that
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i’m so looking forward to reading the book now! :3, great review!!
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Thanks 🙂 !! I really hope you enjoy it
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I think I gave it the same rating. It was really good for a debut and I already told you that the teacher-student thing reminded me of PLL as well 🙂 Great review!
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As soon as I read the explanation I thought about PLL. It was impossible not too because the situation is too similar
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Very true. It’s extremely close to each other.
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