#the ugliest freshman is danielle demarco who’s an athlete that becomes self conscious about her appearance and her relationship with her bf

[theriverdalereviewer]

just finished reading this book called the list by siobhan vivian and you know what I recommend even though I found the ending to be lackluster

#3/5 stars #its about this fucked up tradition at a high school where a list is posted that says who the prettiest and ugliest girl of every grade is #and the story takes us through the eight girls and their overlapping stories #and I liked how every girl has a very distinct relationship to beauty #the prettiest freshman is abby warner who puts intense effort into her appearance but not her grades #and being on the list makes her happy cause she finally gets to break free from her smarter older sisters shadow #the ugliest freshman is danielle demarco who’s an athlete that becomes self conscious about her appearance and her relationship with her bf #especially cause her boyfriend is embarrassed that the girl hes with is considered ugly #the prettiest sophomore is lauren finn who was a sheltered home schooled girl who just transferred to this school #and she basically goes from being ignored by the entire student body to being the center of attention with a bunch of friends #the ugliest sophomore is Candace Kincaid who ironically is not ugly. she was actually a shoe in for prettiest #but her mean girl attitude got her ugliest instead. and the moment shes been labeled ugly she instantly loses all of her friends #the prettiest junior is a girl named Bridget Honeycutt and Bridget had developed an eating disorder over the summer #and shes just started to recover. except now that shes been named prettiest it causes her to relapse in order to maintain her appearance #the ugliest junior is a girl named sarah who is very much a Non-Conformist. and when she gets picked as ugliest #she makes it her mission to be as ugly as possible to basically prove a point #the ugliest senior is jennifer briggis and jennifer was picked ugliest all 4 years of high school which made her an outcast #and after getting ugliest a fourth time the school starts to take pity on her and tries to make her win homecoming queen #the prettiest senior is margo gable. and margo is trying very hard to pretend that she doesn’t care about the list or winning hoco queen #but she actually cares a lot especially since jennifer (aka her ex middle school bff that she ditched for popularity) is now running too #anyways thats all 8 girls story and it was actually a pretty engaging read but the ending was so abrupt #like I turned the last page saw the acknowledgements and I gasped cause SURELY THIS COULD NOT BE THE ENDING? #idk majority of the girls stories felt unresolved and some of them (particularly margo and jennifer’s) were a bit polarizing #but I was enjoying it just up until the ending