![]() ![]() If Harper had had some backbone on their first encounter, I'd have had more respect for her, but no. On top of this, she quickly runs afoul of the school queen bee, who is also a cheerleader and a bully. Despite the fact that Jackson smokes, and she detests smoking, she still has the hots for him and not a single word is spoken about him smelling like an ashtray. ![]() Harper has the "I like the bad boy, but I also like the hot quarterback golden boy syndrome, aka a triangle. Harper Madison? Madison Harper? It doesn't make any difference. ![]() You could switch the main character's two names and still have a trope YA main character name. ![]() To whit: Harper is a troubled child, who is also an orphan child, and who is starting a new school. The book blurb insists that "Harper Madison isn't like other girls" and then the author goes on to give the lie to that by making her exactly like every other YA girl. This is a depressingly cookie-cutter YA series starter wherein the author seems to have made a bet with herself that she could get every single YA trope into the book in the first 100 screens and I think she succeeded, so I was quickly convinced that this novel would not be occupying my 'currently reading' list for long. ![]()
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