Thursday, June 25, 2009

Fabulous Terrible The Adventures of You by Sophie Talbot


The book concept is rather great ( it is done in second hand narration) and takes time to get use to however the storyline reminded me of so many other books out there. Poor girl goes to boarding school on scholarship, odd things happen to her, blah, blah, blah.

The read is very simple but since the story isn't anything special you're left feeling as though somehow you got cheated out of a good read (possibly another book, on your nightstand?).

I don't anticipate reading the next book in the series because I already ready the storyline's in the Private Series by Kate Brian.

Grade: C



Synopsis
Last month you shipped off from Hatterly, your old home town, and changed lives: from foster kid to fulltime student at Trumbull Woodhouse, the most elite all-girls boarding school in the country. Wise move? You hope. Big change? Defnitely.From the minute you arrive on campus, the deans and faculty emphasize how special Trumbull Woodhouse girls are, how lucky you all are to be here. Sulum Puella Est Donum "Every Girl Is Gifted" goes the school motto. Since the frst class graduated in 1882, TW grads have gone on to lead the most distinguished and glamorous lives possible from Wall Street CEOs (14) to Oscar-winning flm stars (3) to Nobel prize winners (1). But a mystery lurks on the grounds of this revered institution. A society sworn to uphold the founder's deepest secrets has become divided. A war for power burbles just under the campus's placid calm. Is the legend true, did Founder Emma Woodhouse see the future and write down her predictions? Or is the rumored Apocryphon just some old book, the musings of a dying woman trying to control her creation from beyond the grave? Who would steal the book? And why?In your frst month at TW, as a mysterious enemy tries to undermine your every efforts to belong, you come to suspect your new alma mater has a past as strange and troubled as you do. Both you and Trumbull Woodhouse are bent on keeping your secrets from the public eye, but as we all know, the public eye is most interested in the girl who's on top.

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