Reviewed by Angie on
The Secret Diamond Sisters is told from four POVs and has little snippets from a message board. I was expecting to get chapters from each of the three sisters, but we also get Madison, who is the evil, queen bee of the Vegas teenagedom. I honestly don't get why her perspective was included. It added nothing to the story, since we learn about her schemes from one of the Diamonds anyway. I found myself skimming a lot of her parts. I did really like the forum threads. They were a fun addition.
The first sister we meet is the youngest, Savannah. She's very upbeat and is excited to be moving to Vegas and meeting their father. Becoming filthy rich overnight and getting a limitless credit card doesn't hurt either. She's the most materialistic of the sisters and I found myself annoyed with her a lot because of this. She goes absolutely crazy with the shopping because, why not? She also wants to be a Pop Star, but is too scared to even sing for her sisters. Makes no sense. She also clings to every guy who pays attention to her. I just could not bring myself to care about her.
The middle sister is Courtney, and I did like her for the most part. She's the responsible, studious one. She's the one to take on a part-time job to help cover the bills when their mother spent the rent money on alcohol. She's not exactly thrilled by her new lifestyle, but she's willing to give her father the benefit of the doubt. I also liked how she tried not to use her credit card too much, and focused on things she might need and a few small luxurious. However, I had to roll my eyes when she tried to apply for a barista job at the hotel she's now living in. I get that she doesn't want to sit around idly and wants to make her own spending money, but come on, there are people who actually need to work and could use her position.
Finally, there's Peyton. She's the worst of them all. I hated her from her very first chapter. She thinks she's so hardcore with her leather dresses and black eyeshadow. It's her goal to be unhappy with her new life and to make her sisters and father miserable, just to make a point. All she's doing is embarrassing herself and by extension, her father. She has absolutely no respect for anyone. She only attempts to get her act together when she overhears her father's business partner say she looks like a prostitute. She's also not the brightest bulb: ordering lobster to piss off billionaire daddy, using a fake ID where everyone knows who she is, and getting mad when a guy calls her easy after sleeping with him the very night she met him.
The rest of the The Secret Diamond Sisters cast isn't much better. Madison is a raging bitch for no reason. Or maybe it's because she's always hungry after only consuming 800 calories a day? Then there's the three guys: Damien, Oliver, and Nick. I honestly couldn't keep them straight. They were pretty interchangeable to me. The only person I did like was Brett, who is the future stepbrother of the Diamond sisters. He's nice, and I actually loved the whole step-sibling blossoming romance.
Just one nitpicky thing: Why does everyone keep referring to Fairfield as if it's some teeny town in the middle of nowhere? It's not! Sure, it's hardly huge, especially compared to other cities in California, but it's certainly not small. At all. I know it doesn't compare to Las Vegas, but the sisters should know better since they're from there.
The Secret Diamond Sisters was just really disappointing. There's no central plot, so it's all about the characters. Too bad all of them were awful.
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Reading updates
- Started reading
- 20 January, 2014: Finished reading
- 20 January, 2014: Reviewed