Some Girls Are

Right to the point: Don't waste your time on this one. 

This is along the veins of Mean Girls only way worse. 

Regina is the main character. Yes, Regina. Ha. But not that Regina. She's the right hand woman to the school's mean queen bee, Anna. Regina fully admits they're the type of popular that parents fear. They're feared more than liked and that's how Anna wants it. 

The story opens at a party where everyone is drunk or drugged up or both. Regina, designated driver, goes looking for Anna to drive her home. She finds her passed out while Anna's boyfriend Donnie decides it's a great idea to try to rape Regina. Regina fights him off and flees the party, finding herself in front of Kara's house. Kara is a member of their clique so Regina goes in and tells her what happened. Kara's advice is to not tell Anna because Anna is the type of friend that will think Regina is after Donnie as opposed to believing her best friend was almost raped. 

Turns out Regina made the biggest mistake of the entire book by confiding in Kara. Kara hates Regina and Regina hates Kara. So why tell her? You're the type of mean girl who knows what's going to happen, but you do it anyway, Regina. Good job. 

Kara spins the incident in her favor and Regina is frozen out of the friend group, which leads to the entire book-long battle between Regina and her old clique. Regina is forced to sit with class outcast Michael, who's actually hot but when he had no interest in hanging out with the popular crew, they started rumors that he was borderline a school shooter and pretty much ruined his life, which became even more ruined after his mother was killed in a bridge collapse. 

Regina and Michael predictably end up together after he forgives her. Way too easily. Michael is the most likeable character in the book, but he's also stupid. Stupid to forgive a bully just because she's being bullied and stupid to carry his journal around school when he's written things in it that could be used against him. 

The only other likeable character is Liz, who used to be part of the popular group until Anna thought Liz and Regina were getting too close and forced Regina and the others to freeze her out. But Liz, unlike Michael, never forgives Regina. 

So you're expecting Mean Girl-type pranks, right? No. It begins with WHORE spray-painted on Regina's locker and a Facebook page called I Hate Regina Afton being created, but there are loads of actual physical altercations. Between the guys (predictable) AND the girls. Kara pushes Regina down the stairs. Regina does the same to Kara later on. The two constantly attack each other, slamming each other into lockers. It's Kara that's the true bitch, not Anna, who just sits back and watches mostly. But they're both equally bad in my opinion because of what they do with Regina's rape story. Kara uses it to her advantage, while Anna doesn't believe it, preferring to think her best friend fucked her boyfriend. 

The book culminates in Regina telling everyone in the school every dirty secret on her ex-friends that she has, which leads to Anna photocopying Michael's journal, including the page where he says he wants to kill everyone. See, he's stupid. Regina is also stupid enough to get in a car with these bitches and they drive her outside of town to kick her ass and leave her to walk home without her shoes. Anna punches her once then is a princess about it, but Kara unleashes on her. When she gets to school, Liz's friend sees her in the bathroom and goes to get Liz. Liz doesn't really want to help, having spent ages being tortured by Regina and company, but she "wanted to see it." However, when Regina tells her what Anna has on Michael, Liz goes to Anna and threatens to tell the principal what she heard two of the bitches saying about the fight in the bathroom. Anna gives Liz the photocopied pages, Regina ends up with Michael, Anna and Kara get absolutely zero comeuppance really. 

Regina is an annoying character because she is mostly cowardly. She goes to Michael's mom, a psychiatrist while she's alive, because the Liz incident made her unable to eat. She still doesn't eat much, chowing down antacid like it's candy. She's clearly wracked with guilt but it doesn't help you like her any more. She believes she deserves what she gets and aside from the attempted rape, she really does. So do the other girls and guys taken down throughout the book. 

I raised this point with a different book, but it is even more apparent here. The adults are NOWHERE in this story. Regina's parents are presented as useless and she tells them almost nothing. The principal is a threat and other teachers appear to hand out simple punishments for simple things, but how in the hell aren't there repercussions for all the fights? This book is completely unrealistic because so many of these incidents are so public that there's no way they'd fall under adult radar. 

So unrealistic story plus unlikeable characters equals I wasted my time with this.