Author: Maxine Kaplan
Publication Date: May 15th 2018
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Books
Part of a Series?: No, A Standalone
I Got A Copy Through: A&CB International
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Blurb Description: After getting caught hooking up with her best friend’s ex on the last day of junior year, Kendall starts senior year friendless and ostracized. She plans to keep her head down until she graduates. But after discovering her online identity has been hacked and she’s being framed for stealing from a dealer, Kendall is drawn into a tenuous partnership with the mastermind of a drug ring lurking in the shadows of her Brooklyn private school. If she wants to repair her tattered reputation and save her neck, she’ll have to decide who she really is—and own it. The longer she plays the role of “bad girl,” the more she becomes her new reputation. Friends and enemies, detectives and drug dealers—no one is who they appear to be. Least of all Kendall.
DNF on page 163
(49%)
When I initially read the synopsis for this book, I thought
it sounded like The Accidental Bad Girl would
be a really interesting read. A good girl turning bad and… liking it? After she
slept with her best friend’s boyfriend? It seemed like a fun, different read
and I was all for it
.
It took me a while to pick it up from my TBR, but when I
did, I immediately took a disliking to it.
It was a lot of small reasons that added themselves
together, and suddenly, I found me forcing myself to read on just BECAUSE it
was a review copy, which just seemed so silly to me when I realised – what is
the point in attempting to recommend a book that I was forcing myself to read? –
that I put it down.
1.
The Main
Character, Kendall: I mean. She was sad, but not about her friend and
betraying her friend’s trust, but about being ostracized. The whole concept was
so strange. If the trigger to all the bad events in Kendall’s life was her BEST
FRIEND, and then she didn’t really CARE about the best friend, what was the
plot even?
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2.
AUDREY:
This is the best friend, by the way, and I ABSOLUTELY HATED HER GUTS. She was
rude, RUDE and even the even ruder. I didn’t understand the things she was
trying to do, from the perspective of a friend.
I guess, more than
the both of them individually, I HATED WHO THEY WERE AS FRIENDS TO EACH OTHER.
In fact, using the word friend to describe them is probably stretching it. For
Kendall, there was no remorse. Also, WHY WOULD YOU GO AFTER YOUR BEST FRIEND’S
EX-BOYFRIEND? Haven’t you heard of the GIRL CODE// THE BEST FRIEND CODE? And for
Audrey, she was pissed off with Kendall just because Kendall had stolen
something – not someone – that she used to have. That’s it.
3.
THE PARENTING:
The interactions and reactions between Kendall and her parents were so incredulous
and unbelievable that I cringed EVERY TIME. THIS IS NOT HOW PARENTS TALK TO
CHILDREN. Also, if you never returned homw because you’d passed out DRUNK of
the school steps (or that’s what your parents knew) ARE YOUR PARENTS FIRST
REACTION GOING TO BE ‘You are not expelling my daughter, she’s done nothing
wrong.’ Or actually PARENT THE CHILD and not call her a day later saying ‘I
think you’re grounded.’
Honestly, I was forcing myself to read this so much, I
flipped to the end to see if there was any point in continuing and HONESTLY, I
WAS SO ANNOYED AT THE WAY EVERYTHING ENDED.
Would I recommend this
book? No. I couldn’t even bring myself to finish it. 1 star.
Maxine Kaplan was born in Washington, DC. She and her twin sister spent their early childhoods trotting behind their journalist parents as they traveled around the world, eventually settling in Brooklyn, NY. Maxine graduated from Oberlin College in 2007. Following a long stint in the world of publishing, she has worked as a private investigator since 2009. She lives in her adopted hometown of Brooklyn, NY, with her lovely husband and complex cat. THE ACCIDENTAL BAD GIRL is her debut novel. Follow Maxine on Twitter @MaxineGKaplan
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