Mostly Good Girls

by Leila Sales

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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'