The Accidental Bad Girl
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After getting caught hooking up with her best friend’s ex on the last day of junior year, Kendall starts senior year friendless and ostracized. She plans to keep her head down until she graduates. But after discovering her online identity has been hacked and she’s being framed for stealing from a dealer, Kendall is drawn into a tenuous partnership with the mastermind of a drug ring lurking in the shadows of her Brooklyn private school. If she wants to repair her tattered reputation and save her neck, she’ll have to decide who she really is—and own it. The longer she plays the role of “bad girl,” the more she becomes her new reputation. Friends and enemies, detectives and drug dealers—no one is who they appear to be. Least of all Kendall.
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2 stars
I don't exactly know how I got through this book. I was hoping for some mystery or a good girl fumbling through being a bad girl with some trusty sidekicks, but that isn't really what happens. So, I suppose me getting through it shows that it is somewhat gripping and written well.
I feel like even if I talk about the characters I'll be giving spoilers away, so let me just say I liked Simone (side character), but no one else... well, Mason, but I always like an interesting bad guy. Liking the main character is a huge point towards liking or disliking a book, so since I didn't truly like her, it didn't help the book. The thing is, I don't think we are supposed to really like her– or thinking deeply about her might make the reader uncomfortable, I know looking at her has made me look deeper at myself. So, I didn't like it, which didn't help the book, yet she is such an interesting, real character.
The plot was okay, but I do wish she had listened to Gilly's advice in the beginning. The talk on slut-shaming, gender differences/inequalities, and rape is handled... mostly well, I think.
One thing I am happy about? The romance. I was so worried about who she would end up with, that the ending was refreshing.
Not sure who I'll recommend this to, but I do see the appeal, so eventually I might push this into someone's hands.
