Sixteen-year-old Violet is doing her best to juggle the academic, social, and extracurricular stresses of junior year at an elite prep school, in t...
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Oct 08, 2011
Hayden
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Lauren Oliver called this book "brilliant" and "poignant." At this point, I'm seriously doubting her sanity. It's actually really funny how bad this book is.
The problem with this book isn't that it's stupid -- the problem is that it's stupid. The girls sit there during class and make lists of who is a virgin and who's not and how far they've gone. The first chapter (if you can even call what the book is written in "chapters") is a More...
The problem with this book isn't that it's stupid -- the problem is that it's stupid. The girls sit there during class and make lists of who is a virgin and who's not and how far they've gone. The first chapter (if you can even call what the book is written in "chapters") is a More...
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Feb 18, 2012
Nina
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I won Mostly Good Girls from Erica at The Book Cellar, and since she had rated it 5 stars and said it's one of her favorites I was very excited to read it. And even if Mostly Good Girls didn't make it all the way up to 5 stars for me, it was still an incredibly funny, cute and easy read, and I really enjoyed it.
This book is very character driven. Violet is such a great lead; just a normal teenage girl with normal teenage problems, but with a fun attitude that makes her an interesting More...
This book is very character driven. Violet is such a great lead; just a normal teenage girl with normal teenage problems, but with a fun attitude that makes her an interesting More...
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Sep 13, 2011
Reynje
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Mostly Good Girls was a bit of a charmer, really. When I took it out of the package (thanks Nomes!) it pretty much winked at me and flirted it's way to the top of my to-be-read pile.
And on the whole, it was worth it. It's an amusing, irreverent story told in snappy vignettes and anecdotes, which gradually become more cohesive and structured as the narrative progresses.
Violet's voice is endearing, and I definitely found it was her (sometimes unintentional) humour More...
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Aug 11, 2011
Emma
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The most fitting title since 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'.
Something about being 'mostly good' implies naughty. However, the girls in Mostly Good Girls are actually (wait for it) mostly good. They don't swear frequently, or sleep around, and they're not drug addicts or suicidal. No. They're good girls who do a couple of naughty things along the way, as do most of the other girls who attend their prep school.
As far as preppy rich girl books go, this one seem More...
Something about being 'mostly good' implies naughty. However, the girls in Mostly Good Girls are actually (wait for it) mostly good. They don't swear frequently, or sleep around, and they're not drug addicts or suicidal. No. They're good girls who do a couple of naughty things along the way, as do most of the other girls who attend their prep school.
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Jun 11, 2011
Serena
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There is no doubt that this book is packed with sarcastic humor and scathing observances of prep-school life. The vignette-style was one of the best parts, because a reader could jump around and read nearly any sketch, crack-up, and not miss an important detail to the plot. It wasn't until the end that the sketches began to connect into chapters and tell the story, so the first three-quarters of the book were snippets of Violet’s life full of humor and poking fun.
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Dec 30, 2010
Lillie
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MOSTLY GOOD GIRLS takes an irreverant look at one girl's journey through an all-girls private high school. Violet has a very distinct voice that shines throughout the whole book, and had me smiling, laughing out loud, and covering my face with amusement. Luckily, I read it mostly in the privacy of my own room. However, there would have probably been some heavy duty recommending going on, if I had been reading this in public.
Leila Sales provides a deep look into Violet's More...
MOSTLY GOOD GIRLS takes an irreverant look at one girl's journey through an all-girls private high school. Violet has a very distinct voice that shines throughout the whole book, and had me smiling, laughing out loud, and covering my face with amusement. Luckily, I read it mostly in the privacy of my own room. However, there would have probably been some heavy duty recommending going on, if I had been reading this in public.
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Dec 16, 2010
Nancy
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Leila Sales is hilarious! She has given the voice inside my head a voice on the pages. She's also inspired the voice inside my head to be more clever. Not that I talk to myself or anything because that would be totally weird. Okay, maybe just a little.
Violet attends a pricey prep school where the expectations are to play by certain rules. Dress just so, be just so, and always, ALWAYS strive for success by doing your best. Katie is Violet's best friend. Katie is tired of playing the gam More...
Violet attends a pricey prep school where the expectations are to play by certain rules. Dress just so, be just so, and always, ALWAYS strive for success by doing your best. Katie is Violet's best friend. Katie is tired of playing the gam More...
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Dec 09, 2010
Jessica
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Mostly Good Girls by Leila Sales tells the story of Violet Tunis, a junior at a private high school, the Westfield School. Violet has many goals for her all-important junior year including getting a perfect score on the PSAT, making her crush Scott fall for her, improving the school’s lit mag, which she’s editor of and more. Along the way, Violet wants to have fun with her best friend Katie.
Junior year isn’t what Violet thought it would be. School is HARD, her extracurriculars are time More...
Junior year isn’t what Violet thought it would be. School is HARD, her extracurriculars are time More...
Nov 29, 2010
Sara
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You could say MOSTLY GOOD GIRLS is about high school and its stresses. Or prep school. Or friendship. Or first loves. But I like to say that Leila Sales' debut novel is about growing up... the growing up that each and every one of does in high school, only more entaining and witty than our own lives.
Violet is definitely her own person, but most girls will relate to her in one way or another. She's competitive, stressed about school, often feels second best, can't help but compare her More...
Violet is definitely her own person, but most girls will relate to her in one way or another. She's competitive, stressed about school, often feels second best, can't help but compare her More...
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Nov 15, 2010
K
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I thought this was an enjoyable book pleasantly devoid of Big Drama. There’s no big angsty issue, or paranormal surprise, or rising up against oppression. It’s a story about best friends and how sometimes two people have to make a concerted effort to stay best friends.
Violet’s a junior in an all girls private school. She and Katie have been best friends since Violet transferred to Westfield. They do projects (harebrained schemes) together, keep half their wardrobes in the other’s clo More...
Violet’s a junior in an all girls private school. She and Katie have been best friends since Violet transferred to Westfield. They do projects (harebrained schemes) together, keep half their wardrobes in the other’s clo More...
Aug 26, 2010
Ev
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I have read quite a few prep school based novels and all focused on devilishly mean rich girls and steamy romances. To be honest I was expecting the same thing from “Mostly Good Girls”. By looking at the cover itself I think anyone would. I was surprised to find this book to be different. The main focus is friendship between two girls, Violet and Katie and their struggles to live up to expectations of life and others. Written from Violet’s perspective we get to experience being not only a More...
Jun 05, 2010
Lisa
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Sixteen-year-old Violet Tunis is doing her best to juggle the academic, social and extracurricular stresses of her junior year at an elite prep school. Between snagging the attention of the boy she's been in love with for years and fighting to save the disintegrating friendship with her best friend, Violet's got her hands full.
Mostly Good Girls is a strong debut novel from Leila Sales. Violet and her best friend Katie are self-aware and funny, More...
Sixteen-year-old Violet Tunis is doing her best to juggle the academic, social and extracurricular stresses of her junior year at an elite prep school. Between snagging the attention of the boy she's been in love with for years and fighting to save the disintegrating friendship with her best friend, Violet's got her hands full.
Mostly Good Girls is a strong debut novel from Leila Sales. Violet and her best friend Katie are self-aware and funny, More...
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Dec 13, 2011
Elizabeth
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I really wanted to like this book. And there were some aspects that I definitely enjoyed. Many of the details about an all-girls prep school were dead-on (the obsession with male teachers, the competitiveness, the different types of students).
However, this was one of those dreaded best friend books. You know, stories told from the point of view of the dull (and frequently mousy) best friend. Katie was the one whose personality changed by the turmoil of her junior year, the one who stru More...
However, this was one of those dreaded best friend books. You know, stories told from the point of view of the dull (and frequently mousy) best friend. Katie was the one whose personality changed by the turmoil of her junior year, the one who stru More...
Oct 05, 2011
Lauren
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There were about 70 pages worth of plot in this 350-page novel, and yet I still found it to be quite engaging and worthy of my time. There was just enough voice and humor to get through the periods of lagging action. The quick pacing also helped -- when you're getting a new chapter every five pages or so, it's hard to complain that some of them are character anecdotes that either don't tie in or only tie in very loosely to the rest of the story. To put it simply, I like that this was published.
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Sep 21, 2010
Erin
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I wasn't sure what to expect from this book when I first picked it up. I will admit first and foremost that I, Erin, am a total cover-judger. I love this cover. Its very fashionista, which I am totally not, but secretly wish I could be so that's what initially, drew me in.
From the very first chapter I was caught off guard by how funny this book is. Katie and Violet are hilarious together and the conversations that they have are beyond comedic. Together they find themselves getting into mor More...
From the very first chapter I was caught off guard by how funny this book is. Katie and Violet are hilarious together and the conversations that they have are beyond comedic. Together they find themselves getting into mor More...
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Jun 08, 2011
Elizabeth "Liza"
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I have heard great things about this novel and I was a little disappointed by it. Maybe I am used to big drama in books about high school and 'Mostly Good Girls' was not about big drama. This novel is a come-of-age tale of Violet and how she deals with change.
Violet goes to a very small and exclusive all-girls school where everyone knows everyone and everything about each other. Where money and prestige talk more than grades or good behaviour. Violet is a good student, a good More...
Violet goes to a very small and exclusive all-girls school where everyone knows everyone and everything about each other. Where money and prestige talk more than grades or good behaviour. Violet is a good student, a good More...
Nov 29, 2010
Amanda
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Mostly Good Girls is a hilarious book about two friends who are growing up and growing into who they each are, while struggling to make that mesh with who they have been to each other. It’s a pretty classic story of two friends growing up and realizing that they can still remain close while finding their own identities. Looking back, it’s easy to remember the friend you had in school when you were young and the plans made to have these parallel lives, how you could finish each others sentences a
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Nov 14, 2010
FreakChiq
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If I could I would give this book a solid 3 stars and a big smiley face. It was funny, sappy and I could easily find my sixteen-year-old self in Violet. Especially the "get a ride home" fiasco sounded very, VERY familiar. 
It’s crazy (and really funny, when you look back) how delusional teenage girls can be, when it comes to boys and what they might or might not think. The only thing I couldn’t quite relate to was Violet’s perspective on the whole knowledge topic. Knowledge was the ess
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It’s crazy (and really funny, when you look back) how delusional teenage girls can be, when it comes to boys and what they might or might not think. The only thing I couldn’t quite relate to was Violet’s perspective on the whole knowledge topic. Knowledge was the ess
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Nov 12, 2011
Ellie
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Oct 05, 2010
Tara
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I was pleasantly surprised by Mostly Good Girls. I picked it up expecting a light, humorous read, which it definitely is. But it’s also so much more than that. There’s an undercurrent of teenage angst and confusion and all the stress that goes along with being sixteen years old.
Violet is a hilarious and witty character. There were plenty of moments during the course of the book where I literally burst out laughing at what she said or thought. She’s brilliant and lovable and she’s so… More...
Violet is a hilarious and witty character. There were plenty of moments during the course of the book where I literally burst out laughing at what she said or thought. She’s brilliant and lovable and she’s so… More...
Jan 10, 2012
Emma™
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Ugh. Don't waste your time on this one. I'm serious, not worth it. Sit down, smile, and I shall tell you all my major peeves on Mostly Good Girls by Leila Sales. Then you go decide if you still want to read it. 'Kay?
Peeve #5: I'm starting from the back, then you can come down to the worst peeve last! This one was the romance. It's worked up through the book, then KABOOM! You <spoiler>find out he is GAY. Really?</spoiler>. Yep, it's sad. Honestly, the romance was the only More...
Peeve #5: I'm starting from the back, then you can come down to the worst peeve last! This one was the romance. It's worked up through the book, then KABOOM! You <spoiler>find out he is GAY. Really?</spoiler>. Yep, it's sad. Honestly, the romance was the only More...
Dec 15, 2010
Lisa
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This was a cute, light read. I've read other prep school novels where they seemed to be focused on the trouble students got in, the 'stuck-up' rich kids or the romances with the all boys school nearby. This had some of those aspects but it was mostly a book about friendship. I don't come across many of those books anymore. Sure there are elements of friendship in every novel but not many that focus purely on that.
I really enjoyed the author's character development of Violet and K More...
I really enjoyed the author's character development of Violet and K More...
Dec 05, 2011
Bunker
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Violet and Katie have been inseparable for years, but their junior year at their private, all-girls high school tests their bond. Privileged, smart, athletic, and beautiful, Katie lives a life and has successes that seem so effortless to Violet, who must work hard for every accomplishment. Despite their school's attempts to minimize academic competition by neither ranking students nor disclosing GPAs, junior year, the PSATs, and the looming college applications increase the stress these driven y
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Oct 23, 2010
Nikki (Wicked Awesome Books)
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Leila Sales is absolutely hilarious. Violet’s travails through prep school are refreshingly witty and unabashedly honest. Violet is the type of person that you can’t help but want to befriend. She’s kind, funny, and smart. She knows who she is and what she wants and she’s also completely loyal to her best friend Katie.
Violet and Katie go through a lot in their junior year. From Harry Potter tours to getting drunk for the first time, these two are the picture of best friends. Their up More...
Violet and Katie go through a lot in their junior year. From Harry Potter tours to getting drunk for the first time, these two are the picture of best friends. Their up More...
Aug 04, 2011
Jessica
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This book was so good. I don't usually read realistic teen fiction, and I wasn't sure what to expect. I didn't want to read anything with a sugary romance like Meg Cabot, or over-the-top drama like Lurlene McDaniel. I grabbed this book because it was one of the only ones checked-in at the library during summer reading and I liked the cover. Inside was a refreshingly told story full of laugh-out-loud dialogue and completely realistic heartache. I swear, Leila Sales wrote scenarios straight out of
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Dec 27, 2011
Marisa
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Mostly Good Girls is a story about Violet Tunis, the ultimate overachiever. If I got a dollar every time she says "I have to study," I'd be rich. It was a light, quick read for me, and more at once it had me having laughing out loud. It was definitely the fun read I was expecting it to be.
I feel like every teenage girl would be able to relate to this book in some way. I know I did. Some of the things Violet did More...
Mostly Good Girls is a story about Violet Tunis, the ultimate overachiever. If I got a dollar every time she says "I have to study," I'd be rich. It was a light, quick read for me, and more at once it had me having laughing out loud. It was definitely the fun read I was expecting it to be.
I feel like every teenage girl would be able to relate to this book in some way. I know I did. Some of the things Violet did More...
Feb 28, 2011
Jeff
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I don't even know fully how to describe this. It's like Diary of a Wimpy Kid mixed with the Carter series in a private Boston all girls school. Sounds like a good idea at the time, right?
Either I've blocked out a lot of high school, or teenage girls are really vulgar. That's really all I could take out of this - privileged girls being catty and terrible to each other in only occasionally funny situations. Not really the best way to line things up.
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Either I've blocked out a lot of high school, or teenage girls are really vulgar. That's really all I could take out of this - privileged girls being catty and terrible to each other in only occasionally funny situations. Not really the best way to line things up.
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Dec 01, 2010
Clementine
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Violet's junior year is supposed to be full of SAT prep, lit magazine editing, learning how to talk to boys, and hanging out with her best friend Katie. But as the year progresses, Violet finds her world changing. She struggles with the pressures of her academic career at the exclusive and rigorous Westfield School. She laments the new girlfriend of her crush to end all crushes. Most of all, though, Violet worries about the growing distance between herself and Katie. As Katie's actions beco
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Sep 28, 2010
Crystal
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Why I read this: The title drew me in. Why are they Mostly Good Girls, plus I loved the cover.
How is the novel driven: Character, this is all about Violet and her best friend Katie and their friendship and navigating the difficult waters of high school.
My thoughts: I say it often I know, but I loved this book. I could completely relate to this book. I saw it well from Violet's point-of-view. She wants, like Katie to be different and to be noticed and not the ordinar More...
How is the novel driven: Character, this is all about Violet and her best friend Katie and their friendship and navigating the difficult waters of high school.
My thoughts: I say it often I know, but I loved this book. I could completely relate to this book. I saw it well from Violet's point-of-view. She wants, like Katie to be different and to be noticed and not the ordinar More...
Jan 05, 2012
Anne
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Violet and Katie are best friends. They attend an elite girls school where they are juniors and are looking forward to a year of fun together. Violet works hard to get good grades, edits the school literary magazine, and has a huge crush on a boy at the elite boys school nearby. Katie, on the other hand, gets perfect scores on her PSATs without even trying, encourages Violet to get drunk while their parents are out of town, and her boyfriend is a pot smoking, non-college attending pot-head.
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