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I loved Summers‘ more popular Sadie, so I thought I‘d go back and give her debut novel a try. Despite a lot of good reviews for this one, I was sort of just “meh”.

Parker was the overachieving perfect, popular girl until she cracked after a traumatic event. She cracks so spectacularly with the same amount of effort as she previously put into being perfect. Knowing this was Summers‘ debut, I didn't expect it to be as well written as her recent work. And it wasn't, but it's still solid. Overall it's a compelling story of the pressures of living up to your own expectations even more so than those of others.

This book is about a teenage girl in high school who is struggling. Her friend is missing and we don‘t know what happened to her and the MC (Parker) has a lot of issues that we learn about. Trigger warning for suicide and rape. If you find these topics difficult, this book may be hard. I thought this was really well written and important for a YA audience because it shows you can be the most popular person in school and still be sad and alone.

Parker will do anything to keep her secret from surfacing... but this time the cost might be more than she can afford. #crackeduptobe #courtneysummers

Wasn‘t too impressed with this one

Book I read for ✨Charms✨ for my OWLS Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers. I really enjoyed it cut me deeply just like every other book my her.

I have forced myself to read 80 pages of this book and I can‘t read another page. I loved the authors book Sadie so I was excited to read another one of her books. I just didn‘t like it at all. The main character I couldn‘t stand. There are to many books out there to read a book you don‘t like!

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I wasn‘t really into this. The main character just annoyed me sometimes and it was just hard for me to really like her that much. I liked that this was pretty fast for me to get through, but it was kind of awful.

#julyinbooks18 #authorswhoarenewtoyou just starting this today. Another oldie I believe. I‘m trying to tackle a long tbr list I‘ve had for awhile with books that I added a few years ago, but never got around to.

Parker Fadley is a popular head cheerleader at her private school who's built up a reputation as a perfect student. Until she's not. As her overachiever facade slips away, Parker hurtles towards confronting a dark secret she's kept since last summer. This debut reminded me a lot of Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, in both the spare, haunting writing style and difficult subject matter.

#Booktober Book Set In A School #setinaschool I read this book a couple of years ago and really liked it.