The Karma Club

by Jessica Brody

[Stephanie]

I love Jessica Brody's books, so I had to get my hands on this one. The concept sounded awesome and cute and who hasn't thought about getting back at their ex? So I went with it, but I definitely wasn't as impressed as I was with the rest of Brody's books.

My first problem was the main character, Maddy. In the very beginning, Maddy is obsessed with the popular kids. She wants to be one of them and wants to go to all their party's. It really got on my nerves after a while because I didn't see any reason why she would want to be their friends because she has two awesome friends already. But she manages to get invited to a party because she wrote to a magazine article about her amazing boyfriend, so now her boyfriend is popular, which I guess makes her popular by association. But that's when she catches her boyfriend cheating on her with the most popular girl at school.

Once I actually got to the Karma part of the book, I started to enjoy the book a lot more. I guess that was another one of my problems, it took a while to set up the whole reason Maddy and her two friends would start the Karma Club. I would have probably enjoyed it more if it just jumped right in after the party and her boyfriend cheating on her and straight to the karma club.

Maddy did get better for me once she started the Karma Club. I enjoyed reading about the tricks they pulled to get back at the people they thought deserved it. I also really enjoyed when another boy showed up in Maddy's life, rather unexpectedly.

Overall, I liked it, but it definitely wasn't my favorite by Jessica Brody. I would recommend My Life Undecided or 52 Reasons to Hate My Father over this one.