Perfect Revenge

by K.L. Denman

Lizzie Lane is used to life at the top of the food chain. Her near-perfect life is ruined when Rachel, a girl she socially destroyed, exacts her revenge by getting Lizzie in trouble for cheating on a test. Friendless and facing detention, Lizzie obsesses over finding the perfect revenge. When Stella, Lizzie's strange new neighbor, teaches Lizzie about magick, Lizzie can't resist creating a revenge spell. But she forgets the "rule of three," that whatever spell you cast comes back on you three-fold, and her zit spell backfires with dramatic results. When she asks for help from Stella's Baba, the only advice she gets is to "write the lesson of the zit on her heart." Can Lizzie find a way to teach Rachel a lesson without causing permanent disfigurement to herself?

128 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Bryce]

The book I am reading, Perfect Revenge is about this girl Lizzie Lane who like this boy Kyle but this girl Rachel got her in trouble so that Kyle would not like her anymore. Rachel gave Lizzie a note that had answers to a test and Lizzie did not know about, so she looked at the note during a test and got in big trouble. Lizzie started to become friends with her next door neighbor Stella and she knows how to do magic. So then Lizzie wanted to put a spell on Rachel to where she would have a big zit on her face for getting her in trouble. Lizzie ended up getting a big zit on her face so the spell backfired on her.

I think this is a pretty good book and it was interesting. The main part of the story was this girl Lizzie trying to get back at this girl Rachel for getting her in trouble and she obsesses with getting the perfect revenge on her.

[Dayjai G.]

two wrongs do not make a right

[Summer · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was such a good book i loved it so much

[Julie Suzanne · Rating 2 out of 5]

This took about an hour and a half to read, and as with all Orca Currents books, it's high interest/low reading level appropriate for middle school students. It was annoying but cute, and I didn't enjoy it but can see how some of my girls might. I want to have at least a few of these read so that I can see if my students are actually reading them when they borrow them; that is all. Cheesy. This one was about a popular girl using really simple (and implausible) magic to get back at her frenemy and it all turns out great in the end.
Characters: Stella (the witch girl) and her "baba" (grandmother witch from the "old country"), Lizzy (the stuck up popular girl always on trend), Rachel (the girl who dared cross her),and Kyle (her crush).

[Paige Campbell · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think that this book was very appealing to me from the heart breaks to the revenge.In my book Lizzie is on her back step crying over her ex-best friend then all a sodden the tree starts rustling, and she wants to faint,when a long skinny leg emerges from the leaves.Then that leg is followed by another. Both legs are dangling for a moment then a whole body drops to the ground.Who is it and what do you think she will do.I think the author wrote this book to tell young readers that getting revenge on someone is not always the good thing to do.I rate this four out of 5 star and i highly recommend it to anyone how wants a quick read.

[Jessie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing special. A corny take on magic spells.

[Jen · Rating 2 out of 5]

A super quick read that lacked substance. None of the characters were fleshed out, the “magick” was simplistic, at best, and the plots were underdeveloped. Very underwhelming book.

[Laurie Brooks · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was a book for tweens - so I was underwhelmed. I listened to it while I mowed - short, quick and perfect for a pre-teen, boring for an adult.

[Mya · Rating 4 out of 5]

eh it was ok