Mostly Good Girls by Leila Sales

Mostly Good Girls

by Leila Sales

Sixteen-year-olds Violet and Katie, best friends since seventh grade despite differences in their family backgrounds and abilities, are pulled apart during their junior year at Massachusetts' exclusive Westfield School.

Reviewed by lizarodz on

3 of 5 stars

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I have heard great things about this novel and I was a little disappointed by it. Maybe I am used to big drama in books about high school and 'Mostly Good Girls' was not about big drama. This novel is a come-of-age tale of Violet and how she deals with change.

Violet goes to a very small and exclusive all-girls school where everyone knows everyone and everything about each other. Where money and prestige talk more than grades or good behaviour. Violet is a good student, a good friend and a good daughter and she goes through the typical teenage angst. Her point of view had me laughing out loud more than once (*weird looks from my hubby* as I was reading in the car :) but I still found the plot a little weak.

Violet and Katie are best friends that share everything, even a crush on the same boy, without incident. The only conflict comes when Katie starts acting up, just because she needs a way to revel against her too-perfect-life. Violet doesn't take Katie's, or any other change for that matter, well. The novel focuses on how she grows by accepting that nothing is stagnant.

An enjoyable and short read. I will definitely read Ms. Sales next book.

About the cover: I liked the cover, but I don't think this is something that neither Violet or Katie might wear :) It does look very 'teenager'

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