Popularity is the best revenge.
In the final weeks of eighth grade, Lauren Wood made a choice. She betrayed her best friend, Helen, i... read full description
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Jan 08, 2011
Clare
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Helen Worthington and Lauren Wood were the best of friends. They did everything thing together, and they shared each others secrets. They both had dreams, but they both shared the same dream: to be popular. Helen thinks Lauren is her best friend but when Lauren has to choose between popularity and Helen she chooses popularity and humiliates Helen so bad that she has to move to New York just to live it down. Now, Lauren is a senior and is the queen bee of her High School and has forgotten all a
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May 12, 2011
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i choose this book because i thought it would be really nice and good to read. i thought i wont like it at all because it didnt look that good in start. but at the end it was great.
this book was almostly about this two bestfriends. their names are Lauren wood and Helen. they have been friends for a really long time but, this was one problem b/w them. is that lauren always thought she was away more pretty/smart and all that and Helen was a type of girl that was fat and not as much as More...
this book was almostly about this two bestfriends. their names are Lauren wood and Helen. they have been friends for a really long time but, this was one problem b/w them. is that lauren always thought she was away more pretty/smart and all that and Helen was a type of girl that was fat and not as much as More...
Feb 18, 2011
Lindsey
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I read this book in about two days. I would have finished sooner had I not had to work and clean my house. I just couldn't put it down.
Helen Worthington is a middle school student about to enter highschool in Michigan. At the high school orientation pep-rally, a trip to the bathroom takes a turn for the worst when she and her best friend stumble upon the senior prank in action. In an instant she finds herself suddenly and utterly betrayed by her closest friend, and stuck with the nam More...
Helen Worthington is a middle school student about to enter highschool in Michigan. At the high school orientation pep-rally, a trip to the bathroom takes a turn for the worst when she and her best friend stumble upon the senior prank in action. In an instant she finds herself suddenly and utterly betrayed by her closest friend, and stuck with the nam More...
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Feb 19, 2011
Anastasia
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This book ended up being so-so. Not to cut-throat like I assumed a revenge book would be, but not entirely passive like a YA book would be.
The main character Helen (later called Claire) was emotionally controlled by a prettier, manipulative friend she had since birth until 8th grade named Lauren. Lauren humiliated Helen quite extensively when they were younger. Helen moves away and schemes for years until she is granted the opportunity to move back to her home town during their senior More...
The main character Helen (later called Claire) was emotionally controlled by a prettier, manipulative friend she had since birth until 8th grade named Lauren. Lauren humiliated Helen quite extensively when they were younger. Helen moves away and schemes for years until she is granted the opportunity to move back to her home town during their senior More...
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Aug 06, 2011
I thought that this was a terrific novel to read randomly from a online posting.
Helen Worthington is a typical best friend clinger who is constantly in the shadow of her social climbing best friend, Lauren Wood. After the senior prank snitching incident, Helen Worthington was framed and branded as a snitch when the truth was that Lauren framed her to get an upperhand for the next year at highschool. Helen's life became hell but when a stroke of luck forced the family to move...Helen siezed the o More...
Helen Worthington is a typical best friend clinger who is constantly in the shadow of her social climbing best friend, Lauren Wood. After the senior prank snitching incident, Helen Worthington was framed and branded as a snitch when the truth was that Lauren framed her to get an upperhand for the next year at highschool. Helen's life became hell but when a stroke of luck forced the family to move...Helen siezed the o More...
Jan 30, 2012
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(Spoilers) The book was predictable, unrealistic (see: the whole 'changing identity by losing a few pounds, styling your hair differently, and getting a nose job after an "accident"') and chock full of mean girls cliche...but surprisingly... it worked for me. Maybe because it was a very light read, i wasnt too invested in the characters yet and wasnt given the chance to realize how one dimensional they are. I was kind of waiting for Brenda to be the one to snitch Lauren to the principa
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Dec 20, 2011
Kelly
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Helen and Lauren were best friends since birth. Sure, Lauren was a high-maintenance friend, but Helen thinks it's worth it. Until Lauren sells her out for popularity. (And when I say "sells her out," I mean "betrays her and ruins her life.") It's so bad that Helen's family moves to another state. Flash forward several years. Helen's lost a ton of weight and is now pretty and semi-popular at her New York school. And then her parents drop the bombshell: they have a great
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Jul 04, 2011
Shanan
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It is hard to say that I enjoyed this book because I do not feel like it is a book that is meant to be enjoyed. It was meant to make the reader think, and I finished the book with a lot to think about. This book would be an excellent book club selection because it is definitely a book you will want to discuss.
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For anyone who has been hurt by a friend (or more precisely a former friend), it sometimes seems like Karma is taking too long to balance out More...
It is hard to say that I enjoyed this book because I do not feel like it is a book that is meant to be enjoyed. It was meant to make the reader think, and I finished the book with a lot to think about. This book would be an excellent book club selection because it is definitely a book you will want to discuss.
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Jan 27, 2011
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Jan 07, 2011
Jacqueline
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I have to admit, this book is more of a guilty pleasure for me than an award-winner. If I think about it, the plot wasn't even super great, so it was more of a fluff piece, but let me explain. Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood is about Helen and Lauren, ex-best-friends after Lauren ruined Helen's 8th grade life with a false rumor. Helen's dad gets a job in another state, thankfully, so Helen can escape. But years later when Helen has no other choice but to return to her old school as a junior in hi
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Aug 08, 2010
Karen
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"Before the incident there hadn't been a single moment of my life without Lauren in it." Until the end of junior high, Lauren Wood was Helen Worthington's best friend, always had been. It didn't seem possible to Helen that they wouldn't always be best friends. Then, at the end of eighth grade, Lauren used Helen - sacrificed her friendship and publicly humiliated her in an unbelievably cruel way - to bolster her own popularity. As she explained it to Helen after the incident, she saw a
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Jul 23, 2010
BOOK BUTTERFLY
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“Revenge is a tricky thing. I wanted Lauren to pay, but pay in a very particular way. For example, it might be momentarily satisfying to do one of the following:
1. Push Lauren out in front of a speeding dump truck
2. Slather her with BBQ sauce and set a herd of hungry pit bulls on her.
3. Pour honey in her hair and then tie her down on an anthill.
4. Dress her in a bathing suit made out of herring and then push her into shark-infested water.”- page More...
1. Push Lauren out in front of a speeding dump truck
2. Slather her with BBQ sauce and set a herd of hungry pit bulls on her.
3. Pour honey in her hair and then tie her down on an anthill.
4. Dress her in a bathing suit made out of herring and then push her into shark-infested water.”- page More...
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Mar 19, 2010
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I started reading this book and I thought to myself, I don't think I am really going to like this book. I was reading it for a review so I kept at it and then I started to like it. It's not a great book by my standards but I thought it was a really good book.
Revenge books are tricky, I have a motto for these books. "Revenge only gets you dead" (Hamlet, Moby Dick are my top revenge books and the main character dies) In this case it almost makes Helen's life worse off than More...
Revenge books are tricky, I have a motto for these books. "Revenge only gets you dead" (Hamlet, Moby Dick are my top revenge books and the main character dies) In this case it almost makes Helen's life worse off than More...
Jan 02, 2012
Nikki
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Wow. This book was a great pick to start off the new year.
I went into this book thinking about how awesome it will be to see the popular girl go down. But by the end of it I just want Helen to mbe herself and forget Lauren. I loved she was able to find herself in the mean time, and really enjoy the life she has made without Lauren.
I really, really loved Eileen Cook's writing. It flowed beautiuflly and I could not put this book down! It was amazingly well written and just More...
I went into this book thinking about how awesome it will be to see the popular girl go down. But by the end of it I just want Helen to mbe herself and forget Lauren. I loved she was able to find herself in the mean time, and really enjoy the life she has made without Lauren.
I really, really loved Eileen Cook's writing. It flowed beautiuflly and I could not put this book down! It was amazingly well written and just More...
May 20, 2010
Tiger Holland (All-Consuming Books)
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This ARC was received as part of Around the World ARC Tours.
Helen's life was ruined in eighth grade when her best friend, Lauren Wood, turned on her. Now after a three-year abscence, Helen's back in town with a new name, a new look and a mission to destroy Lauren's carefully built-up palace of popularity.
I was pleased to find that Lauren Wood was loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' classic The Count of Monte Cristo, because literary roots are always a good thing for a book More...
Helen's life was ruined in eighth grade when her best friend, Lauren Wood, turned on her. Now after a three-year abscence, Helen's back in town with a new name, a new look and a mission to destroy Lauren's carefully built-up palace of popularity.
I was pleased to find that Lauren Wood was loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' classic The Count of Monte Cristo, because literary roots are always a good thing for a book More...
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Feb 01, 2010
Morgan
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I most likely wouldn't have read this book if it wasn't offered to me free. But the title was so blunt and the cover so funny that I couldn't turn it down. I went into this book expecting nothing more than your typical shallow chick-lit.
The title and cover pretty much explains the plot. Helen and Lauren have been best friends their entire lives. That all changes at the end of eighth grade when Lauren betrays her best friend for the sake of popularity. Helen moves away and retu More...
The title and cover pretty much explains the plot. Helen and Lauren have been best friends their entire lives. That all changes at the end of eighth grade when Lauren betrays her best friend for the sake of popularity. Helen moves away and retu More...
Feb 24, 2011
Nina
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OMG, Getting Revenge On Lauren Wood is the best light hearted book I read so far this year.
Helen is a great character that just needed to learn that revenge isn’t everything.
She really believed that what she was doing was the right thing and that she was helping other girls who got hurt by Lauren too. I didn’t like Lauren at all. She is spiteful, rude and inconsiderate. And therefore I really wanted to see how she would fall of her pedestal. One thing about being on top of the More...
Helen is a great character that just needed to learn that revenge isn’t everything.
She really believed that what she was doing was the right thing and that she was helping other girls who got hurt by Lauren too. I didn’t like Lauren at all. She is spiteful, rude and inconsiderate. And therefore I really wanted to see how she would fall of her pedestal. One thing about being on top of the More...
Jun 19, 2010
Kate (I Just Wanna Sit Here and Read!)
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GETTING REVENGE ON LAUREN WOOD, by Eileen Cook, was high school revenge at its worst (and best). With healthy doses of bitchy-ness and secret identites, this book is the ultimate rule-book for female payback.
This book took girl-revenge to a whole other level. Lauren Wood, former best friend of Helen, made a complete mess of Helen's last few weeks of eighth grade, and Helen never forgot it. When Helen moved back to town, her detailed plan to take down all that Lauren cared about was i More...
This book took girl-revenge to a whole other level. Lauren Wood, former best friend of Helen, made a complete mess of Helen's last few weeks of eighth grade, and Helen never forgot it. When Helen moved back to town, her detailed plan to take down all that Lauren cared about was i More...
Jun 09, 2010
Nian
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Three years after Lauren humiliated Helen and left her for popularity, Helen comes back with a new identity and a clear goal: take down Lauren Wood.
I usually don't like reading revenge type of books. Mostly because I already know what's going to come, and will cringe when the protagonist finally realizes that the whole revenge thing doesn't make her life any better, so she has to try to make things better. But despite the predicabilty, I really liked Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood. More...
I usually don't like reading revenge type of books. Mostly because I already know what's going to come, and will cringe when the protagonist finally realizes that the whole revenge thing doesn't make her life any better, so she has to try to make things better. But despite the predicabilty, I really liked Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood. More...
Mar 02, 2010
Crystal
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If you are a young adult or you like young adult fiction that takes an outsider who moves to a new school and becomes a new person then I believe you will like this book.
I was never in the in-crowd in high school, althought I wasn't completely on the outs like Helen. However I think all girls at one time or another have been betrayed by a friend. If you haven't consider yourself blessed. Helen is seriously betrayed by her best friend, Lauren Wood in Lauren's attempt to become popu More...
I was never in the in-crowd in high school, althought I wasn't completely on the outs like Helen. However I think all girls at one time or another have been betrayed by a friend. If you haven't consider yourself blessed. Helen is seriously betrayed by her best friend, Lauren Wood in Lauren's attempt to become popu More...
Mar 26, 2011
Sarah
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I had expectations for this book that were not met at all. The cover, for example. I thought Lauren was going to die...that wasn't the case. But let's go back...3 years back. Lauren and Helen were best friends since birth, but Lauren always came first. When Lauren and Helen go to the high school orientation,they discover the senior prank going on...and Lauren turns in the seniors, and to make sure she gets popular in high school, blames it on Helen. Helen gets bullied constantly, and becomes the
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Sep 10, 2010
Emmy
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Helen and Lauren have been friends since the day they were born. So it comes as quite a shock that in the last days of eighth grade, Lauren publicly betrays her best friend for a chance at popularity. The humiliation is so intense that Helen moves away before high school even begins. But although she had a chance to start over and has become a skilled artist, she remains fixated on sweet revenge. Senior year, Helen returns to her home town with a plan to destroy Lauren’s perfect life: create an
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Mar 04, 2011
Abby
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Phenomenal! I loved this book, it was hillarious. Though a bit too much swearing, (I.e F word was used a pridicament of times...) I found the book both enjoyable and appropriate for Preteens! The story follows Helen W. and her best friend, the, Lauren Woods. They're bestfriends until Lauren pulls a stunt so big that it ruins their friendship and Helen's life. Helen is forced to change schools, until three years later. Her dad wants Helen to stay with her grandmother a year because her parents ar
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May 19, 2010
Amanda-Lee
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Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood is like Mean Girls, in book form.
Lauren Wood was Helen’s best friend, until she betrayed and humiliated her in front of the entire school forcing Helen to leave the state and start life fresh. Helen was a quiet girl when she left content with her old black and white movies and not really realising that she was being used by her best friend. But when she returns to her small home town and the high school that hated her before she left, she is a completel More...
Lauren Wood was Helen’s best friend, until she betrayed and humiliated her in front of the entire school forcing Helen to leave the state and start life fresh. Helen was a quiet girl when she left content with her old black and white movies and not really realising that she was being used by her best friend. But when she returns to her small home town and the high school that hated her before she left, she is a completel More...
Jun 02, 2010
Brandi
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Helen and Lauren have always been best friends. Now Helen and Lauren are at the end of 8th grade. Helen is a bit frightened of what’s to come whereas Lauren is ready to grab popularity by the horns, no matter what the cost. When Lauren and Helen witness an extreme senior prank while at the school for freshman orientation and the news leaks out who was responsible, all fingers point to Helen as the snitch. In reality, Helen said nothing about what she saw but no one will believe her, except L
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Jan 10, 2010
Libro Joven
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I loved "The Count of Monte Cristo", by Alexandre Dumas, so I was bound to enjoy very much this cute little tribute to it. If the Count, Edmond Dantés, were a teenage American girl, if he had been humiliated in junior high instead of being suspect of treason, and if his plans of vengeance involved such shallow things as messing with another girl's mascara, then yes, he would very much be like Helen.
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In the overall it was funny, delightfully shallow and occasionally silly. It More...
Dec 10, 2009
Joanne
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Helen Worthington has been wronged. Very wronged. So wronged that after three years away, living on the other side of the country, she’s still looking for revenge on her former best friend.
But even when Helen’s vengeful plan is going well and Lauren’s life starts swirling the drain, Helen knows there’s still something’s missing. But what? And why, after three years of reliving her humiliation at Lauren’s hand, isn’t Helen feeling great about getting back at her former friend?
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But even when Helen’s vengeful plan is going well and Lauren’s life starts swirling the drain, Helen knows there’s still something’s missing. But what? And why, after three years of reliving her humiliation at Lauren’s hand, isn’t Helen feeling great about getting back at her former friend?
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Jan 05, 2012
Abby
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So this book went way beyond my expectations. It's a light, quick fun read. If you're between books or something. I liked how it still had a tiny elemnt of surprise, the fact that nobody kissed and made up, and that the nerdy girl named Brenda was more than just brains. She didn't let Helen use her or boss her around even though she seemed like a person who could easily be manipulated.
The High School cliches were definitely there, but they were made fun of so it wasn't so bad.
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The High School cliches were definitely there, but they were made fun of so it wasn't so bad.
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Oct 14, 2011
Jodi
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Both the title and the cover art drew me towards Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood. It just seemed like it would be a fun read reminiscent of Mean Girls (and I love a good Mean Girls-esque plot!). This book did not disappoint.
After Lauren betrays her best friend and (misleadingly) sells her down the river for ratting out the cool kids for a prank, Helen is devastated. School quickly becomes unbearable when the other kids turn on her, too. Luckily for Helen, her parents have de More...
After Lauren betrays her best friend and (misleadingly) sells her down the river for ratting out the cool kids for a prank, Helen is devastated. School quickly becomes unbearable when the other kids turn on her, too. Luckily for Helen, her parents have de More...
Nov 01, 2010
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