Reed Brennan has found her escape at Easton Academy. An escape from her pill popping mother, her small boring hometown, and most importantly, from her safe, boring self. At Easton, Reed can be anyone, anything, and she can do everything. The only problem is that everyone at Easton is a tad more sophisticated then she, but she has found a solution to that problem too, the Billings Girls.
The Billings Girls are the most beautiful, intelligent, and intensely confident girls on campus. And they know it. The girls hold all the power in a world where power is fleeting but means everything. Reed vows to do whatever it takes to be accepted into their inner circle.
Reed uses every part of herself -- the good, the bad, and the beautiful -- to get closer to the Billings Girls. She quickly discovers that inside their secret parties and mountains of attitude, hanging in their designer clothing-packed closets the Billings Girls have skeletons. And they'll do anything to keep their secrets private.
Ever since I read the summary of this book I have been dying to read the series. I am a big fan of boarding school books and this one looked like it had an interesting twist. I loved how Reed thought that her life would become perfect after getting “In” with the girls and I really loved reading about her interacting with them. At times the girls seem perfect, sometimes seriously messed up, and at other times just plain cruel. But that’s what makes the story unique. That’s what I loved about it. I loved the darkness that the Billings Girls brought to the story.
Reed’s background is sad but also innovative. The relationship with her mother was written perfectly and I loved reading about all of her attempts to escape where she came from. I enjoyed that despite everything was falling apart, Reed was having doubts and how she made them stop. That was a great motivator for me personally.
In my personal opinion, Reed’s relationship with Thomas needs to be worked on, both between the two of them and the way it is written. The scenes when the two are together need to be more descriptive (actually the whole book needs to dig deeper). Sometimes I would need to read a paragraph twice because it was hard to understand how a scene had changed. Of course Reed needs to work on not being blind with love. She overlooks some of the worst of Thomas’ flaws the way any girl would, but it still drives me crazy to “watch” her do it. Though that can be annoying I loved seeing the two interact together, however badly the scene was set.
My favorite part of the book was when Reed was interacting with the Billings Girls.
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