Victoria T. (justicepirate) reviewed on + 350 more book reviews
I think this would be a cute series for a Christian teenage girl to read who is hoping to start dating. A group of girls that attend a Christian school decide that they will start dating boys that they may or may not have a crush on already. Some of them aren't too keen on the idea while others really want to date badly.
A "game" of sorts is created between these girls where they just want to find good guys that can take them to the homecoming dance. We learn a bit about who each girl is and what their personalities are like. The book is also very much about friendship and working together. There is talk about faith in God too, but it isn't focused on a lot. It is more in the background.
As a woman who has only dated one guy (to whom I am married), I found some of this to commend some bad ideas. For instance: what is wrong with these girls? They can't approach a guy themselves at all to get a date? They can't try to talk to them and have their friends talk to other guys for them to get their dates? This mentality and way that many girls do things is terrible. Maybe I'm just crazy because I was always one to approach a guy to say, "I like you." The thing is that these girls are just trying to go on a date that may not even last longer. That is weird to me, maybe because I had a mentality where if I were to date someone, it was to work towards an eventual marriage (and I started dating my husband less than a month before my 17th birthday and now I am 31).
I definitely felt like I was back in high school with some of this, as a lot of people I knew who were dating or trying to had lots of drama with their own friends. This made me chuckle a bit.
I read this book basically because I have read some of Melody Carlson's books and enjoyed them in the past. This was not bad, but I think it was a bit too short.
A "game" of sorts is created between these girls where they just want to find good guys that can take them to the homecoming dance. We learn a bit about who each girl is and what their personalities are like. The book is also very much about friendship and working together. There is talk about faith in God too, but it isn't focused on a lot. It is more in the background.
As a woman who has only dated one guy (to whom I am married), I found some of this to commend some bad ideas. For instance: what is wrong with these girls? They can't approach a guy themselves at all to get a date? They can't try to talk to them and have their friends talk to other guys for them to get their dates? This mentality and way that many girls do things is terrible. Maybe I'm just crazy because I was always one to approach a guy to say, "I like you." The thing is that these girls are just trying to go on a date that may not even last longer. That is weird to me, maybe because I had a mentality where if I were to date someone, it was to work towards an eventual marriage (and I started dating my husband less than a month before my 17th birthday and now I am 31).
I definitely felt like I was back in high school with some of this, as a lot of people I knew who were dating or trying to had lots of drama with their own friends. This made me chuckle a bit.
I read this book basically because I have read some of Melody Carlson's books and enjoyed them in the past. This was not bad, but I think it was a bit too short.
