YouTube | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website I loved seeing the different answers from different cliques in her school about who was popular and what popularity meant. That made my bring up my rating by a star because it seemed like the most important part of her experiment. The best part of the book for me had to be the part of the experiment where Maya sits at all the different lunch room tables and sees the reactions of the different cliques at school. It felt like they were trying to combine a social experiment with a memoir and make it really moving, but the problem was that there's not much to say in the life of this particular 8th grader. Some were about her journey following Betty's popularity book, but many were about mundane things going on in her life that weren't very noteworthy. Her journal entries were also a bit disjointed. For instance there's a part where she says she wasted a bunch of hours away reading a bunch of teen fashion websites and should have spent her time reading classic works of literature instead. The beginning of the book was kind of boring and there were a few moments where I felt like the author was judging people who didn't do things the way she did. I think the concept is really smart and interesting, but to be honest it fell short for me. I was really excited going into this book because I had heard a lot of great things about it. Maybe some of her more negative thoughts were edited out, but I think I would have connected with and enjoyed this book much more if they were included.

Everything after was a bit boring and couldn't really hold my attention, and it had to force myself to finish it.ĮTA: I've read other reviewers call this book emotional manipulative, and I think that's right. I guess this upsets me a lot more now that I have a daughter and do not want to see her have this struggle with her body. She included pictures, this is not a girl with a weight problem. This girl seems to have a great head on her shoulders, but the first chapter involved a middle schooler dieting. The author was just too nice, she didn't seem like a real teenager. But it was formulaic and boring, and a bit too sweet. It had such great ratings, I thought this would be a great read. I picked this book up because I was looking for something quick and mindless. And then I saw that Steven Spielberg had bought the rights to her book, and I didn't feel so bad anymore. But I use this website to keep track of my reads and my thoughts, so I had to be honest. I wouldn't want her to stumble across this and feel badly. The author is young, and obviously a very nice, driven person who will go far. I feel a little guilty giving this book 2 stars.

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