Title: Bad Girls with Perfect Faces
Author: Lynn Weingarten
Date Started: January 11
Date Finished: January 13
Format: Hardcover from my shelf
When Sasha’s best friend Xavier gets back together with his cheating ex, Ivy, Sasha knows she needs to protect him. So she poses as a guy online to lure Ivy away. But Sasha’s plan goes sickeningly wrong. And she soon learns to be careful of who you pretend to be because you might be surprised by who you become…
You know it’s been three days since I’ve finished this book and I’m still not one hundred percent sure what really happened at the end there. Don’t get me wrong, I kind of liked this book. I wasn’t really a big fan of the whole Sasha and Xavier are best friends and Sasha has a huge crush on Xavier thing. I wasn’t also a big fan of Xavier’s character if I’m being honest. There was just something about him that really ended up bugging me. Like, I really enjoyed that he volunteered to be Sasha’s partner for a school project and that’s how they ended up becoming friends. But everything else – from how he got over his breakup with Ivy the first time, how fast he drops Sasha to go see Ivy on his birthday, and the fact that he was so quick to get back together with her even though she completely devastated him – drove me absolutely crazy. He is completely impulsive. Even when he went on the road trip with Sasha after Ivy ‘broke up’ with him, and he realized that he might have feelings for Sasha? I was really annoyed with that whole scene.
I was really glad that Sasha and Xavier didn’t happen, though. I think I would have been really disgusted with the whole novel if they had. Although I am still confused as to what exactly happened that night. Please do not read on from here if you wish to avoid spoilers. I mean, I got that Sasha went to Ivy to pull the wool over her eyes about who Jake really was and things got really twisted around. But Ivy was still alive when Sasha left. Then maybe Xavier came to see her after that, and may have had ‘rough sex’ with her? But in reality it was Gwen who killed her because Ivy kept taking things away from her? Even ‘Jake?’
Final Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. I feel like I need to ask this question. Why is it whenever teens in YA find a body their first instinct is to try and cover up the murder? I mean, wouldn’t it be easier to go to the police? Or is it just for plot based reasons?
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