Review Detail

Reader reviewed by Khy

Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva all get mixed up with a senior boy--a cool, slick, sexy boy who can talk them into doing almost anything he wants. In a blur of high school hormones and personal doubt, each girl struggles with how much to give up and what ultimately to keep for herself. How do girls handle themselves? How much can a boy get away with? And in the end, who comes out on top? A bad boy may always be a bad boy. But this bad boy is about to meet three girls who won't back down.

Review:

Ever read one of those books that you really want to review and talk about because it's so good but you have to think pretty hard for things to say about it and your review turns out kind of suckish? For me, that book is A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl.

This book had a lot going for it. Right at the beginning of each girl's POV, the girl said what she was like. I did find the girls kind of similar, but that didn't really bother me. Anyway, the girls were described well and I felt like I knew them. I also felt like I knew unnamed bad boy jerk, even though he wasn't even described that much. The girls just told how he was really hot, but I still felt like I knew him. Maybe because he was a stereotypical bad boy jerk, but the kind that of stereotypical bad boy jerk that actually exists. (Did that make sense?)

So, plot. It was like many subplots in books. There was the girl head over heels for the boy who only wanted her for sex, but she was virtually unaware of that fact. I should dislike this fact, but I don't. This book was just so much better than the other books with this plot. It delivered such a powerful message that I didn't mind the plot I see all the time. It was just a lot better.

And one thing that made me really happy was the fact that they talked about Forever by Judy Blume so much. I absolutely love that book, so seeing it actually play a big part in this book made my inner Judy Blume fangirl happy.

If you don't read this book, especially if you are a teenage girl, you are missing out big time. READ IT I TELL YOU! READ IT! There were so many things that should have bothered me, but they didn't because the book was so engrossing and wonderful.

On the blurb page, Cynthia Leitich Smith (author of Tantalize, in case you didn't know) said this book was "Sure to be the new Forever." While I do not think their should be a new Forever, since Forever was just so wonderful, but if, for whatever bizarre reason, there had to be a new Forever, I'd pick A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl to be it.