Libba Bray
Hardcover | Pages: 396 pages Rating: 3.62 | 48424 Users | 7637 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Beauty Queens |
| ISBN: | 0439895979 (ISBN13: 9780439895972) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Taylor (Miss Texas), Adina (Miss New Hampshire) |
| Setting: | an island in the middle of nowhere |
| Literary Awards: | Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) for Young Adult Novel (2011), Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors (2012), Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Young Adult Literature (2011), Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2011) James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List (2011) |
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The 50 contestants in the Miss Teen Dream pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner. What’s a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program - or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a perfect tan - or learn to run wild? And what should happen when the sexy pirates show up? Welcome to the heart of non-exfoliated darkness.Specify Epithetical Books Beauty Queens
| Title | : | Beauty Queens |
| Author | : | Libba Bray |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 396 pages |
| Published | : | May 24th 2011 by Scholastic Press |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Humor. Fiction. LGBT. Audiobook. Teen |
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Ratings: 3.62 From 48424 Users | 7637 ReviewsCriticize Epithetical Books Beauty Queens
Reading Beauty Queens evoked a lot of questions on what it means to be a woman in this pageant of life. The most important of which is - am I a Sparkle Pony or a Lost Girl?I'm definitely a Sparkle Pony.3.5 stars, quite an enjoyable, fast-paced read, equally laced with black humor and life affirmations, from start to finish. Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel. And Beauty Queens truly is funny, but the humor is never disparaging, even when it confronts heavy subjects suchI wanted to pick this book up because it reminded me of:This review contains *spoilers*.And also because Lair of Dreams left me in a bit of a reading slump, and what better way to get out of one than by reading another book by the same author, am I right?Our tale begins with a sudden fall from blue skies, with screams and prayers and a camera crew bravely recording every bit of the turbulence and drama.When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they
Meh. Just meh. Beauty Queens is not at all what I expected. What I expected was a group of beauty queens crash land on an isolated island and it's not long before the ruthlessness of the pageant morphs into a violent "survival of the fittest" mentality, a la Lord of the Flies. I would have also settled for a dark and biting satire on consumerism and pop culture. Alas, what I got was an increasingly irritating "Girl Power!" message that never quite got off the ground as it never quite rejected
BITCHES!! HEY!! BITCHES!! OVER HERE!! excuse me - i mean young ladies. put down that stephanie meyer book. is that cosmo girl?? yeah, lose that. stop reading the clique and get over here right now.don't read anything else until you read this book. you can even stop reading this review, i don't care, as long as you read this book. well, the book comes out tomorrow, so you might as well finish reading this review after all. when caris reviewed this book ages ago, i knew it was going to be a book
I wish I had enough money to buy every girl attending my high school a copy of Beauty Queens. Actually, I wish I had enough money to buy every girl from the age of 15 to 21 a copy of this book. I bow down to Libba Bray for pulling off such a crazy concept - a plane of beauty pageant contestants crash on an island - when it could have gone horribly wrong in the hands of a less competent author.On the outside, Beauty Queens is about an ensemble of shallow, teenaged girls surviving on an island.
I read this a few years ago and usually I don't remember much about a book after that long unless it was a particularly good read. This is one of those books that stayed with me because it was just so entertaining. I forgot to update my Goodreads with it but happened across a GR friends review and remembered. I saw somewhere that someone said it's like "Lost" meets "Clueless" and I think that that is an accurate description...although maybe I would add "Mean Girls" and "Toddlers & Tiara's"
How the HELL has this not been made into a movie. I implore you to listen*** to this.
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