Beauty Queens follows a mixed bag of beauty queens that are trying to adapt to living on a deserted island after surviving a plane crash. In a parody, ala Austin Powers (but with beauty queens), Libba Bray makes you laugh out loud with her wit. However, at the same time, she touches on some important issues for everyone to consider.

Throughout the book there are footnotes and commercial breaks, which made it so that all through the book, I had a narrator's voice that would pop in at those parts that sounded like an announcer- made reading quite entertaining :)

Pop culture parodied in Beauty Queens (that I noticed):
The Hills, Bratz dolls, Boy bands, James Bond, Over-medicating, Cinnabun, Fast food, Health insurance industry, Emo, Facebook, Bridal competition shows, People famous for being famous, Plastic surgery, Reality TV, Phish, Captain Morgan, Antique's Roadshow, Victoria's Secret and, of course, Beauty pageants.

Favorite quote (not funny at all...): "Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's watching them so they can be who they really are." -pg. 177

Also- I spy a David Levithan shout out on pg. 271