Bittersweet Sixteen | Carrie Karasyov, Jill Kargman | The Best Book I've read all SUMMER=]

Bittersweet Sixteen | Carrie Karasyov, Jill Kargman | Loved This!

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Bittersweet Sixteen

	Bittersweet Sixteen Carrie Karasyov, Jill Kargman HarperTeen, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Balloons and streamers? Carvel cake? Those might be standard fair for your average birthday party, but Whitney Blake and Sophie Mitchum are anything but average.

I'm Laura Finnegan ? thrift store junkie and scholarship student at Tate, our posh all?girls high school in Manhattan. I'm not like Whit or Soph, but that doesn't stop us from being BFFs. But then they started tuning in to the all?Sweet Sixteen, all?the?time channel. Now tempers are flaring, Prada bags are flying, and guys are being tossed around in vicious tug?of?war battles. Whose Sweet Sixteen will reign supreme?

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The Best Book I've read all SUMMER=]

This book was just really fun and amazing. I really got into the book and I felt like I could relate to the characters I even felt i was them especially when the tears whip out in the end. I felt like the emotion was real and the whole book made me mad to think I live in a state where there are no Prada stores or Armani Exchanges within 500 miles of me. This book made me wish i could have a sweetsixteen like this but i don't live in LA or NYC so this is unlikley. Still this book is a great read for any age, (no matter what the parents say) so if your into fashion and fun, and girls, and hot guys, and stuff like that, thn this is perfecto for you=]

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Loved This!

This is classified as a teen read, but I think adult women can definitely appreciate it too. I definitely got caught up in the story of how teenage girls can turn against each other. Carrie Karasyov writes about believable characters and I always enjoy her writing style. Plus, it is always entertaining to read about the super-rich--in this case, their lavish Sweet 16 parties.

Bittersweet Sixteen

Bittersweet Sixteen

Bittersweet Sixteen, a novel by Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman, takes place in the upper east side of Manhattan at Tate, a private high school. Laura Finnegan, even being a scholarship student without the must-haves of the season, doesn't feel as out of place as you might think. That's because her long time best friend, Miss Whitney Blake, happens to be queen bee of the school. Everything changes though, when Sophie Mitchum, a former queen bee from her old high school in LA, moves to Tate and squeezes her way into their exclusive clique. Sophie being exuberantly rich and having the same birthday as Whitney has her taken to like a fish out of water. They soon become best friends, leaving Laura out of the mix when combining their sweet sixteens into one fabulous party. But as could have been predicted by their superficial bond, it all comes crashing down over a major fight leaving the school with two queen bees, two sweet sixteens, and Laura stuck smack dab in the middle.
One of my favorite scenes in the book is when both Sophie and Whitney come crawling back to Laura after demanding she choose between them. When she doesn't answer right away, they both drop her like a hot potato and deem her invisible. Laura after telling them off, demands that they make up if they want her forgiveness. This scene made me feel like cheering Laura on because they had been out right nasty towards her.
All in all, I'd give this book four stars. I'd have to say though that while it may look as if the over all theme of Bittersweet Sixteen is friendship it ands up being the same theme as those corny self books, just without the corniness. Be true to your self, and you'll be rewarded.

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Cute and charming

Laura and Whitney have been friends for years, despite the fact that they couldn't be more opposite: Laura is the daughter of two NYU professors and is on scholarship to Tate; while Whitney is a blue-blooded Upper East Sider, raised in the lap of luxury. Enter Sophie, the daughter of a well-known movie director, who fights with Whitney to be the "queen bee" of their exclusive private girls' school. Everyone is obsessed with having the biggest and most over-the-top Sweet Sixteen Party. Although Laura goes along with her friends' materialistic behavior, she's still able to remain objective about her life.

The outcome is predictable when Whitney and Sophie, friends at first, begin fighting over a boy both of them like and figting over who will have the biggest and most expensive Sweet Sixteen Party. The authors do a wonderful job of depicting teenage angst in the voice of a teenager who isn't quite as self-absorbed as her friends are. I found it remarkable, though that Laura never feels resentment towards her friends for having more than she does. She's able to realize that, even though her parents don't have very much money, she still has a great life. This was a great one-sitting read that kept me hooked until the end.

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