i love insane toxic lesbionic cheerleader media and i had fun! everybody remember to thank god i didn't read this when i was in high school or it would've been my whole personality ( )

This is not my favorite Megan Abbott book and I think it is because I don't find the sport of cheer very exciting. The story itself was good, I just found all of the cheer information distracting. ( )

This was pretty awful. ( )

I apparently need a shelf for things I read because it turns out that I need more books than I can carry for two weeks in Europe and there's no English language bookstores in the Swiss Alps and my library app limits what I can download internationally.

This book is utter crap. Complete and utter crap. Paper thin characters. The least mysterious mystery. I'm not totally sure Megan Abbott was ever a teenage girl, but, wow, that is NOT what it's like. Also, it reads super slowly. I seriously considered DNF'ing it despite having literally no reading alternative. Not really any redeeming features. ( )

I loved this book in so many different ways; the ways the girls were described as "untouchable" as cheerleaders (who doesn't think that in the microcosm of high school) and the wonderfully descriptive writing of Abbott--such as the "squall of a blow dryer" ---sounds so much better than "after I blow dried my hair", don'tcha think?

Loved the way her teen characters talked to each other.

Loved the way Beth was so intense and changeable.

Loved the plot and how I never saw the ending coming.

If I had read this in high school, I would have yearned to be like these girl, so cool, so alive...so dangerous and full of mayhem. ( )