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Take The Stage (2012)

by Joanna Philbin(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1407121197 (ISBN13: 9781407121192)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Scholastic

series

Daughters

review 1: I can't be the only person who thinks these books are absolutely ridiculous? All three are exactly the same, unrealistic nonsense and extremely boring. All three books have been about a little rich girl who doesn't see eye to eye with her parents. They do stupid things, figure out their mistakes, realize their parents have loved them all along, the parents realize they have also made mistakes and they all make up. They all have a boy interest, do something to screw it up and then make up. This should really be marketed towards tweens and not in the YA category, anyone older is not going to be able to find this book interesting. I'm sad there is still another one and sadder yet that I must read this predictable series. Really wish I could be one of those people who could s... moretop reading when they dislike a book or series. The only plus is I have spent zero money on these books as I have gotten them all from the library, yay!
review 2: **MINOR SPOILERS**I'd actually give it a 2.5. Sorry, but is it just me, or is this plotline working less and less with each Daughters book Joanna Philbin writes? The Daughters was great. Lizzie was an interesting, relatable character who you could really sympathize with. I understood why she made all of her decisions, even if they were bad ones. The next book was pretty good, too. Not as good as the first one, but Carina's story was compelling, and her character was also relatable, even if she did really annoy me at times. But this is the third book in the series that has followed the EXACT same storyline: a girl is at war with her parent(s) because they/she/he want her to do something she doesn't want to do--i.e. not model, work for a big company, sing pop--and the girl's rebellion is innocent enough at first, but soon she makes a huge mistake and messes everything up! Luckily, she quickly realizes what she's done and fixes everything and everyone forgives her because, hey! That's what happens in real life, right? Well, this storyline fit well with all the characters in the first book, it fit okay with all the characters in the second book, but this one was not believable at all. First of all, I didn't really get into Hudson's rebellion. I just didn't feel like that was done well, I guess. I mean, we've gotten to know this character over two books, and now they've totally changed everything about her so she can be a rebellious teen who jumps into things without thinking them through, which fits the storyline, but is not Hudson! I didn't find her transformation into this person all that believable. But the ending was what REALLY got me. Even if we could believe Hudson could completely and utterly change so quickly without a truly huge catalyst, Holla Jones would not just snap out of her denial because her daughter asked her to with big puppy dog eyes! I feel betrayed by this storyline! It just fixed everything up all nice and neat in a way that did not fit with the characters! Holla Jones was an emotionally blind mother who was crushing her daughter's spirit without even realizing it. She had been in denial her whole life about what Hudson wanted because she wanted to live through her daughter and control her. Her epiphany was total BS! Again, characters don't just change like that without a really big catalyst! It made no sense!Really, all three books were paced well, and the plots were entertaining. To be honest, if I hadn't read the first two books, I wouldn't have minded this one so much. I mean, there were little tweaks in the storyline here and there: Lizzie's rebellion was really more abut proving to her mom that she could be a model more than doing something her mom didn't want, whereas Carina just wanted to go on a ski trip she wasn't allowed to go on, and Hudson wanted to live out her dream against her mother's wishes; There was romance int he first two books, but not quite so much in the last one; and, of course, all three girls had distinctly different personalities. But to me, this just proves my point: the same storyline worked less as the books went on. See, it was designed to fit Lizzie's story, and it did! Then, it worked okay with Carina, because even though she WASN'T Lizzie, the choices she and the people around her made were still believable. But with Hudson, it all just fell apart. less

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