Ugh. Ugh. UGH!
Okay, I just read this book, and I am so pissed off with it right now.
How do books like this get published? I don't care who the target audience is. It's a female YA novel btw. Ha, look at me calling it a novel.
It's about these two girls, Emma and Chloe, who win a trip to some made up island 10 hours away from England, who all speak Spanish (from what I know of continental flights, this puts them in the Caribbean, the southern tip of Africa, or around the Indian sea. My money's on the Caribbean) and it turns out that they're on the same flight as some made up popstar. I can get behind the concept, I've seen that Amanda Bynes film 'shipwrecked' (same storyline) which was pretty well made in comparison to this book.
Because it's not so much about the singer. It's about his photographer's assistant and a severely misrepresented Essex boy. All the characters are one dimensional. Chloe is good and an attractive redhead, Emma is bad and a more attractive blonde. All the guys are buffed and bronzed. They both fall in love within the time frame of two weeks (this ALWAYS annoys me) and there is some unnecessary race to the airport at the end.
I just ... there aren't words. Did the publishers only want to play it safe? Do they think girls are like that? The girls stopped speaking to each other for half the book, technically. As if you do that when on holiday with your girlfriends. I just feel like this undermines the target audience. I know teenage girls are smarter than that.
It annoys me when books like this get published. I hope I've got the only copy sold, although I doubt that.
