- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (7 Aug 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099440776
- ISBN-13: 978-0099440772
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,933,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A frightening depiction of the female teenage mind' Daily Express
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'A frightening depiction of the female teenage mind' Daily Express
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Saw the author on tv and thought great idea. Sadly, didn't turn out to be as great as I'd expected. Knowing what girls can be like (cos I am one and I work in a high school half full of 'em!)I thought the author could have really gone to town with the wicked things kids can do to each other, but the characters never really came alive as they did in Lord of the Flies and it all seemed fairly tame compared to what I think alot of girls really experience in regular everyday life. But, hey, that's only my opinion!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The kindest thing I can say about this book is that it is an interesting idea with great potential. The sad thing is it really doesn't work. I was amazed with the banality of the book - I love all the Notting Hill mysteries and consider Anabel Donald one of the greatest contemporary writers, so I don't know what happened here. Perhaps these were just her rough notes that someone published without her permission. It certainly reads that way. The characters are shallow stereotypes and not one of them is at all believable, the plot is ridiculous, the narrative style immensely gimmicky. The idea of a modern reworking of Lord of the Flies with girls is a brilliant one, and one I would have thought Anabel Donald could do to perfection. Nice try, Ms Donald, but needs work.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book much more enjoyable than the other two reviewers. I was fairly cynical at the beginning, but this is more than a reworking of Lord of the Flies. Although the author could have created an absolute dystopia involving the behaviour of the girls, I feel it works well. There is cruelty and unhappiness but in my opinion, it is suitably realistic. Girls are cruel, but they are also intelligent and have the ability to co-operate.
I enjoyed the narrative style, although at times it does have a certain gimmicky quality to it, it is not without irony and humour. This saves it from becoming too focussed on breaking the style of the linear narrative and keeps to the story.
What spoils the book for me is the ending. I understand what the author is trying to portray and her intentions, but it didn't quite work for me.
I'd certainly recommend this to older teens - who will certainly recognise their own and their friends' behaviour here and also to young women who will be glad that they are long past some of the things younger girls do!
I enjoyed the narrative style, although at times it does have a certain gimmicky quality to it, it is not without irony and humour. This saves it from becoming too focussed on breaking the style of the linear narrative and keeps to the story.
What spoils the book for me is the ending. I understand what the author is trying to portray and her intentions, but it didn't quite work for me.
I'd certainly recommend this to older teens - who will certainly recognise their own and their friends' behaviour here and also to young women who will be glad that they are long past some of the things younger girls do!
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