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Jun 18, 2015 Melissa rated it really liked it

I heard many good things about this book, which prompted me to purchase it. While I can see what everyone liked about it, there were also times I had difficulty getting through it. It is written with a lot of descriptive similes and metaphors and a lot of little flashback scenes that break up a scene from the present. (This is different from the scenes that are intended as flashbacks.) I liked the parts about her experience in high school and I could definitely relate to her desire to redeem her ...more

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Jul 10, 2015 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was ok

Shelves: psych-psych-psych, women-on-the-edge, fiction, wouldnt-normally-read, new-adult

It's a certain kind of hell, confessing your most humiliating sexual secrets to a room full of hairy middle-aged men.

I just couldn't get into this.

I get that it's a parody, and maybe if I lived in Manhattan and worked in publishing and cared about superficial appearances, I would find it interesting. But I don't, and I don't and I don't, so I don't.

This reads like a combination Lifetime after-school special + a New Adult Mean Girls with a side of suggested (but never shown!) kink + a few mor ...more

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Mar 08, 2016 Jeanne Bufkin rated it did not like it

Shelves: rcpl-2016, dnf

Honestly? I hated this book almost from the beginning. This is the first book I've ever started and not finished on purpose. Hell, I had to create a DNF shelf!

I thought the characters were one-dimensional and I thought Ani was a raging bitch from hell the entire time. Her younger self wasn't that bad at first, but I just wanted to wring her neck and tell her to grow a backbone!

Don't regret not finishing this one. Probably will think twice about anything from Knoll in the future. ...more

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