Poseur

Reader reviewed by Megan


po·seur (noun): a person who pretends to be what he or she is not.Charlotte Beverwil, Janie Farrish, Melissa Moon, and Petra Greene attend exclusive Winston Prep in the Hollywood Hills. And that's all they have in common. But hang out together? They'd rather be hanged. Borrow one another's clothes? They'd sooner borrow a zit. So when these four sophomores are forced into a class to create their own fashion label, they Clash with a capital C. Janie thinks Melissa and Charlotte are Beverly Hills brats. They dismiss Janie as a Valley rat in sheep's clothing. And Petra, well . . . Petra couldn't care less. Can a cool coquette, a shy punk, a hippie goddess, and a ghettoglam egomaniac make beautiful couture together? At Winston Prep, survival of the fittest comes down to who fits in-and what fits

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This book I have to say was okay I liked more than I disliked. I t was a little hard to get into but after that I liked ithe characters were a little fake. They were all very different the only one I think that actually sounded somewhat read was Janie but she was still a little weird. The other characters were a little naggy and expected everything to be given to them. I like dthe book but I wasn't wowed by it. I was actually expecting more but it didn't really happen.

Reader reviewed by Megan

Everything can change during the summer. Jamie Farrish fully believes in this saying. In fact, Janie decides to wear a bright green miniskirt to show these changes. It is not until she and her twin brother Jake park at the Showroom (the place to see and be seen) on the first day of school that she realized she was not the only person who changed over the summer so had her brother. When her brother Jake waves to Charlotte, a popular girl obsessed with all things French, the pieces fall into place. Her brother had become popular.
At the school assembly on that first day, the new teacher showcases her new program: Special Study. The catch was that there had to be at least four students to form a special study group. This is how Janie, Charlotte, Melissa, and Petra end up in the same study group. They all had different ideas, and certainly all had different personalities, but they all shared one major theme: fashion.
Melissa had great expectations for this groupshe wanted to create a clothing label to rival her step moms label. So, this explains why she wastes no time getting started. However, the four girls butt heads when it comes to naming the label. Melissa goes ahead and plans a launch party for their yet-to-be named label. They then come up with a great idea to hold a sort of raffle, and let the other people suggest names for the label. Through a series of events, the real entries were replaced with the same suggestion on every entry: poseur. The girls end up using this as their label name, realizing they were all really a bunch of poseurs, anyways.
Rachel Maude did pretty well with the writing of this book. Poseur was not really my type of novel (since it centered around fashion), but it was well written to the point that it still kept me, of all people, interested.