Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Reviewing: The Mean Girl Apologies

The Mean Girl Apologies
By: Stephanie Monahan

What It's About!

You know that catchy song you keep hearing on the radio? It’s about you.

Natalie Jamison has spent five years trying to forget the girl she was in high school: popular, pretty…and, okay, mean. Now in her twenties and living once again in her small town, she’s right back where she was: following Queen Bee Amber and keeping secrets from her best friend, Sarah.

Secrets like Jack Moreland.

Everyone knows Jack Moreland—his new album, Good Enough, is everywhere. He’s famous. Impossibly handsome. Completely untouchable. But what none of Natalie’s old clique knows is that in high school, Natalie and Jack fell in love. And their secret relationship was incredible, painful—and earth-shattering enough to inspire an entire album.

Facing friends and enemies isn’t easy, but Natalie will go to great lengths to prove she is good enough—to her friends, to herself, and most of all, to the small-town boy turned worldwide heartthrob she never forgot.



My Thoughts!

I received this book through Net Galley in turn for an honest review.

I just finished this book and I had mixed feelings on the rating. I enjoyed the read, but there were a lot of grammar errors. Like tons. Yet...I appreciated the easy flow of the book. I am definitely open to reading more of what Stephanie Monahan puts out there.

Who really knows themselves in high school? Not many people do. Your constantly caught up in material things and self image. Instead of the future, it's all about the here and now. I hated girls like Natalie in high school, but I couldn't be mad at her. So many girls are forced into that please the pretty popular ones, just so they aren't the ones being made fun of. I didn't really have a lasting meaningful relationship in high school. Even when I did have one right out of school, I made mistakes. Tons of them. You hurt people in the process. Natalie got a second shot to make things right. Sometimes our first loves mean more than we think they do. Some of us get it right the first time. I'm glad Natalie got the chance to be happy. To be with the person she truly loved. And that Jack got closure and an old wound healed. I enjoyed their story. I didn't find any quotes that stuck with me and I doubt I will read it again, but I didn't regret my time reading it. 

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