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Crazy Things Girls Do For Love (2000)

by Dyan Sheldon(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1406319228 (ISBN13: 9781406319224)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Walker Books Ltd

review 1: The Crazy Things Girls Do For Love....Come to think of it is actually true... This happens to everyone, every girl. I'll be honest with you even me. I do it all the time. Trying to be someone we are not just to get some guy-we think we are totally in love with- to notice us and to prove how much we are destined to be together!!!Three different girls from very different clicks strive their way to get this one gorgeous new boy in school. The most popular and the most coolest girl in school, Sicilee and Maya never thought they had to become GREEN to impress a guy when all the boys in school wants them. While Waneeda-the invisible girl-tries as hard as everyone else, trying to be as much as visible she can. But the mystery lies... Who will win??? Sicilee, Maya or Waneeda? "Eve... morerything is fair in Love and War - And this is LOVE"!!There is only one word for this book : Amazing!!!
review 2: If I had to describe THE CRAZY THINGS GIRLS DO FOR LOVE in just one word, I can't help but choose CUTE as my primary definer. I mean, really, it was just SO cute! And, okay, fun and adorable too.Basically, this is the story of three girls from three different cliques who all go nuts over the same guy. Sicilee is the popular fashionista, Maya is the quirky artsy gal, and Waneeda is pretty much the social outcast. When attractive, charismatic Cody moves to town, all three girls instantly think he's gorgeous and seek to find a way to gain his attention. Cody takes charge of the school environmental club, announcing that he was notorious in his old school for convincing classmates to adapt a green way of life. After hearing Cody incessantly sing his own praises about his quest to save the world, the three girls decide there is no better way to get the guy than to give in and join the environmental club.At first, Sicilee and Maya battle one another to see who can be more environmentally conscious. Sicilee vows to walk to school every day, despite the fact that it's snowing and more than a mile or two from her home. Maya dresses herself in plastic bottles, standing outside the local super market to educate customers on going green. The girls compete to be the best at the vegan life, giving up leather shoes, non organic foods, and even electricity at some points of the story. As the environmental club gains popularity in the school, and the girls get more militant on their save-the-world campaign, they slowly start to realize that Cody is a lot more talk than action. Is a wishy washy boy who loves himself so much more than others really worth three girls going crazy?THE CRAZY THINGS DO FOR LOVE is written from a 3rd person present tense point of view that swaps between Sicilee, Maya, and Waneeda in alternating chapters. I really do enjoy novels written in the present tense, although I think it can be a tricky thing to finesse. Even as the perspectives change, the author weaves the girls together, allowing the reader to see some partial scenes from opposite perspectives as the girls interact with one another.The only one thing that really drove me crazy were the irritating little phrases that Maya and Sicilee tended to repeat over and over again, nearly every time they dialogued with another character. With Sicilee it was different variations of "Sweet Mary!" while Maya's retort of choice was "Gott im Hiemmel!" I've never in my life met a teenager who spoke that way, and after a while it really just felt tedious.While the lead female characters do tend to be walking stereotypes to the core, the story still manages to be cute, fun, and entertaining. I mean, nobody reads this type of book to feel smart and literary. So, for what it seeks out to do it seems to be pretty successful. I'd recommend this to any fans of young adult literature, just start this one with the expectations that it's definitely a fluff read. less

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