Critique

A bit slow at first, the book really gets going and doesn’t stop until the very end. You can truly see the transformation taking place in Frankie as she moves from being a whiney girl to a strategic mastermind, showing herself and the world of upper-echelon to be teenagers that she will ultimately be a force to be reckoned with.

The character of Frankie that Lockhart creates is one that is both endearing and inspiring. You find yourself rooting for her while simultaneously forced to look inside yourself to see if there’s a repressed revolutionary waiting to awake and evolve. While I don’t recommend that teens imitate the specific pranks that Frankie creates, I do believe that Frankie is a symbol to readers that they have the ability to become something more than they are now, something more than people have labeled them to be.

Frankie shows readers that the quick and clever can often open the way to their own destinies, and that people shouldn’t simply accept the boxes they’ve found themselves in, whether self-imposed or enforced by others. Ultimately, Frankie shows readers that they should strive to be unique, creative, and courageous. I recommend this book to all readers 12+.

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