Boarding School Girls: A Novel (The Temperley High Series), by Helen Eve
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Boarding School Girls: A Novel (The Temperley High Series), by Helen Eve
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Worshipped, envied, desired, and feared by all, Siena Hamilton reigns over Temperley High, the embodiment of the Hamilton legacy. She and the Starlets may still be healing from the unfortunate and horrible events of that night, at the end of last year, but nothing can shake her place as the head of Temperley's elite any longer. The Starlets are nothing if not adept at dealing with traitors, and Siena is her mother's daughter: she knows how to be perfect, and she will not disappoint. There is only one person who could possibly get in her way…
Romy, former Starlet, is back―back from a mutually-agreed-upon term away, in France―and no one is happy about it, least of all herself. She's changed now, though. She's trying harder to be normal, to dress appropriately, to blend in, to keep her head down and keep the secret of what really happened that night safe and hidden. But when your former best friends are untouchable, and you've betrayed them, you don't just get to come back―even if you're beginning to think they might not have been your friends in the first place.
In Boarding School Girls, prequel to Helen Eve's first novel Stella, revenge runs deep, old wounds break open, and the past can never, never be outrun.
Boarding School Girls: A Novel (The Temperley High Series), by Helen Eve- Amazon Sales Rank: #4404855 in Books
- Brand: Eve, Helen
- Published on: 2015-03-24
- Released on: 2015-03-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.65" h x 1.26" w x 5.74" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 10 Up—Like Anna Godbersen's "Luxe" series (HarperCollins), this contemporary prequel to Stella (St. Martin's, 2014) starts with a prologue that is the equivalent of reading the last page of a mystery, followed by the series of events that leads up to the leading lady's demise. In this case, Siena Hamilton is the consummate rich girl who has "people" (peers who have been initiated as Starlets by Siena and her mother) who handle all of her day-to-day details. Slowly, but surely, Siena finds herself an onlooker in her own life, except for when she's having sex with her boyfriend, Jack. He is the stereotypical wealthy jock with an absentee father and a mother who is perpetually attempting suicide in an effort to win back her husband's affection. Romy, a former Starlet just returned from France, is the fly in the ointment and is the perfect foil to the mean girl circle of Starlets that orbit Siena. Readers receive snippets of story sufficient to cobble together that Romy was invited to become a Starlet but was expelled from the group for reasons that are somewhat nebulous. As Siena watches her desired engagement to Jack implode and her lovelier younger sisters replace her in her mother's affections, she begins losing her will to live. Siena and her Starlets are an emotional train wreck that will build an automatic readership for the previous volume, and provide a good backstory for Stella Hamilton's mean girl proclivities. VERDICT Teens with an itch for a rich, mean girl series will definitely find a scratch in Boarding School Girls.—Jodeana Kruse, R. A. Long High School, Longview, WA
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"Teens with an itch for a rich, mean girl series will definitely find a scratch in Boarding School Girls."―School Library Journal
About the Author HELEN EVE grew up in the north of England and attended Oxford University. For the next seven years she ran an outreach initiative encouraging applicants for her college. In this role she visited hundreds of high schools each year before leaving to focus on a creative writing MA, from which she has just graduated with distinction. Boarding School Girls is the prequel to her first novel, Stella.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The tale of a powerful teen clique By Neal Reynolds Don't expect a breezy light hearted teen novel here. Instead, this probes deeply into just what makes a powerful high school clique. Siena is the undisputed leader of "The Starlets: However, she is challenged by Romy and thus the war is on. Romy is out for revenge and upheaval. Their stories are told in alternate chapters throughout the book.This is the author's 2nd novel and is a prequel to Stella, her first book. It's powerfully written with indelible characters, especially the two lead ones but also Libby who must be carefully watched.This is the ultimate teen girls' novel and I recommend it highly.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. If I could give it zero stars, I would By Avid Reader This book is terrible. Eye rollingly bad, and not even in a guilty pleasure sort of way. (Full disclosure: I haven't read the sequel, which I gather she wrote first, but it's not necessary to have read it to understand this book - and you can bet that I will not be reading it now.)Normally I love books set in boarding schools. Give me a good Gossip Girl knock off and I'll eat that up. But this! This book just didn't make sense. It is part preposterous high school drama, part fashion show, and part Flowers in the Attic.In short, the story is told from two different perspectives, those of Romy and Siena. Siena is the leader of a (formal) clique of high school popular girls called the Starlets. The other Starlets, of whom Romy WAS one until recently, exist to prop up Siena - including one of whom is her official scheduler. That's right, she has a secretary. Romy is just back from a year spent at a boarding school, to which she was sent after allegedly pushing one of the Starlets down a staircase (what actually happened to is alluded to throughout the book and not revealed until the end). The main tension in the book comes from Siena's relationship with Jack - Siena needs Jack to propose to her by the end of the year (their junior year in high school), and she sees Romy as a threat to the engagement.That's right: a 17 year old is desperate to marry her boyfriend, with encouraging pressure from her mother, and the entire book is predicated on this being a normal thing that happens to affluent people and a good life choice to skip college in order to marry at 18.Mostly, the book is a litany of ridiculously extravagant clothing choices and activities, punctuated by over-the-top dysfunctional family dynamics. Siena's family in particular is literally incredible. Her mother is a Mrs. Havisham-esque beauty who doesn't leave her room for fear of growing old, and she has two younger sisters who alternate between not having any personality and acting completely inappropriately (mature, or immature) for their age. The last probably quarter of the book is much more rapid than the rest of it, and the already loose wheels really start to fall off as the book reaches its climax - a climax, I might add, that seems to exist solely to set up the sequel.Please just do yourself a favor and leave this one aside. Yikes, it's bad.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Not Fluffy At All By OutlawPoet This is an odd book.First of all, pay no attention to the cover. This looks like a very fluffy book and, really, it's not fluffy at all. Yes, it deals with high school cliques, mean girls, and a little angst, but it has some very surprising depth.Now, this is a prequel to a book called Stella. I didn't read that book and, in truth, for the first 7 chapters or so, I felt like I was reading a sequel - not a prequel. I felt a little lost - like there was so much that readers were already expected to know. In fact, I was a little tempted to stop reading. However, I persevered and next thing I knew, I was in.The book alternates points of view. You have Siena, the current school queen bee. You have Romy, the former popular girl who did something terrible and is now an outcast.You'll start out thinking that Siena is a Kardashian Klone. Stick with it. She's very different than you think.The book has a surprising amount of darkness to it. It deals with some pretty heavy emotional issues, though it manages to feels somewhat light as you read it. It kind of hits you later just how heavy it really is.Now, something else.There's a weird undercurrent to the book. I thought (and still kind of think, though there's nothing substantiating this), that the girls are witches or practicing some sort of dark art. And yes, I know it's probably my imagination. But the girls basically form a coven, they wear odd robes and meet in a way that's almost ritualistic. And one of the mothers definitely seems to scream head witch.I don't know. Maybe that's something that was in the first book. And there's nothing supernatural in this book at all. But, weirdly, it feels like there should be.A good book. More depth than you would expect and still manages to be a fast and fun read.
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