ARC Review: The Accidental Bad Girl by Maxine Kaplan
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Author: Maxine Kaplan
Published May 15th 2018 by Harry N. Abrams
Goodreads Synopsis
After getting caught hooking up with her best friend’s ex on the last day of junior year, Kendall starts senior year friendless and ostracized. She plans to keep her head down until she graduates. But after discovering her online identity has been hacked and she’s being framed for stealing from a dealer, Kendall is drawn into a tenuous partnership with the mastermind of a drug ring lurking in the shadows of her Brooklyn private school. If she wants to repair her tattered reputation and save her neck, she’ll have to decide who she really is—and own it. The longer she plays the role of “bad girl,” the more she becomes her new reputation. Friends and enemies, detectives and drug dealers—no one is who they appear to be. Least of all Kendall.
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I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher. This in no way impacted on my view.
This book was a strange one, I will admit it. Kendall has been ostracised at school for getting with her once best friend's ex boyfriend, and now no one will talk to her. She's got all of senior year ahead of her, and is trying to just get through it with no issue. However, it's soon became clear that someone is out to get her - her social media has been hacked, and everything there does not recommend her to colleges who will be looking. She's also now got drug dealers on her back, who think she stole from them, as she's been framed. Now she needs to work with Mason, the mastermind of a drug ring, and finds herself carrying drugs in order to recover her reputation. With police on her back, and a whole range of difficulties to overcome, can Kendall get to the end of Senior year?
I liked this book, but there were times when I felt it dragged, and I kept putting it down. I never really clicked with the main character, or got overly invested in the plot. People have compared it to Veronica Mars, which I love, and there is an element of that in it, but not enough to make me love the book. I did like the twists and turns, and the conclusion, but otherwise, I was probably just reading the book to find out whether it would tie everything up, or not. All in all, not a memorable book, and not one I would be jumping at re-reading or recommending.
Dates Read:
April 12-May 7, 2018Rating
3 Stars
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