Not only that, she becomes the victim of the clique’s intense bullying, which she was once on the other side of. Regina Afton is the It Girl Anna’s best friend, but after Anna’s boyfriend assaults Regina at a party the truth of what happened gets twisted beyond recognition and Regina is ousted from the clique. It was kind of like “if this is a solution why wasn’t it just solved earlier?”.
I guess if a book upsets me this much it’s really worthy of five stars, but there were a few things that bothered me about it, like the ending wrapping up a bit too neatly/quickly. By which I mean the plot, not the writing, obviously. It took me a few days to even land on a star rating, as at first I thought I couldn’t possibly think of this in terms of stars, it was just too horrible. They will downright ruin people’s lives, drive them into depression or even towards suicide. These girls do truly horrible things to each other because of their own insecurities, and the need to become/stay popular. Except it’s not funny, and nobody is hit by a bus*. Actually, scratch that, this is exactly Mean Girls. I've been writing and publishing for the last ten years and you can read more about me and my work here: and follow up-to-the minute news about my releases on my Instagram (summerscourtney) and Twitter (courtney_s).Just because this is a book about high school girl cliques and one of the girls is called Regina, don’t make the mistake of thinking this is Mean Girls.
I dropped out of high school when I was 14 and my first novel was published when I was 22. :) It's one of the neatest ways my publisher has marketed one of my books.Īs for me, I live and write in Canada. The podcast is pulled directly from Macmillan's full-cast audiobook and whether you tune in before, while or after you read, you'll need the book to complete Sadie's story. You can subscribe and listen to it for free on the podcast platform of your choice:
As part of their promotional efforts, Wednesday Books (an imprint of Macmillan), released a limited podcast series called THE GIRLS. Sadie alternates between Sadie's perspective and podcast transcripts. It's been named an Amazon, Indigo and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018. It's a thriller about a girl who disappears on the hunt for her sister's killer and the popular radio personality who starts a podcast dedicated to finding out what happened to her. I'm Courtney Summers, the author of several novels for young adults including CRACKED UP TO BE, SOME GIRLS ARE, THIS IS NOT A TEST, ALL THE RAGE and most recently, the New York Times bestseller SADIE.
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