I think I’ll go reread the Princess Diaries now. It was a good, light, and entertaining read. I think that if the secondary characters had had more development, their reconciliation would have appeared more realistic.Īpart from the ending, I enjoyed the book. They were more flat, and therefore their sudden about-face seemed strange. I think the reason that the ending doesn’t work for me is that the popular characters were not as round as Steph. Tired of suffering for her spill, Steph puts faith in How to. The saying, coined by her stereotypically popular classmate, Lauren, is the product of a sixth-grade incident when Steph dropped her Super Big Gulp on Lauren’s white designer skirt. It is a very pat ending to an otherwise fairly realistic book about high school politics. Armed with a plan, Steph Landry starts junior year determined to shake her place as the butt of her town’s saying, Don’t pull a Steph Landry. In the end, they all end up hanging out together at a coffee house, which seems highly unlikely given that they all hated her not moments before. After that, of course, everyone hates her for being a killjoy. As one of her friends points out, why would she want to be friends with people who have been so cruel to her? She does succeed in being popular for a week, but it all comes crashing down when she refuses to let the popular crowd have a big party in her grandfather’s observatory. I wasn’t really convinced of Steph’s reason for wanting to be popular, which is that she is tired of being a social outcast and hated by everyone except her two friends. Mia ( Princess Diaries) is a much more engaging central character than Steph ( How to be Popular). I was a little bit disappointed, as it wasn’t quite as good as her Princess Diaries series. Meg Cabot is one of my favorite young adult authors, so I expected a good book when I started this one.
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