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The Princesses of Iowa - Community Reviews back

by M. Molly Backes
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Fiction Fare
Fiction Fare rated it 12 years ago
Solid 3.5 stars! I've been sitting on writing this review for a little while, though I'm not entirely sure why. I think it's because I'm struggling with what to say about this book. Did I like it... sure. Did I love it... no. In fact, when we talked about this book in the bookclub that I read it fo...
My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it 13 years ago
I truly enjoyed the book as it dealt with the issues in an honest and open manner. Paige has her senior year all planned out for herself but at the end of her junior year, a drunk driving accident occurs and her plans are trashed. As a reader, you don’t find out the whole details of the incident u...
lizpatanders
lizpatanders rated it 13 years ago
I initially wasn’t really sure if I wanted to read The Princesses of Iowa. Some of the reviews seemed lukewarm, but when Kelly mentioned how lovely the writing was, I knew I had to give it a shot. Unfortunately, the writing was the only thing I really loved about this book.Aside from the car accid...
Xpresso Reads
Xpresso Reads rated it 13 years ago
No matter what happens in life, use it!Ultimately, The Princesses of Iowa is a book about life; it's about nothing, and everything. I was really taken by surprise at how much I became absorbed in this story. It's filled with reality. Real people, real emotions, raw moments, hard decisions, and true ...
jenryland
jenryland rated it 13 years ago
Source: e-ARC via NetGalleyIt took me a while to warm up to this book's main character. Initially self-centered and a little snobby, she wants to put her drunk driving incident behind her and have a picture-perfect senior year. That's not going to happen. Her friend Lacey has spent the summer in sur...
Juhina @ Maji Bookshelf
Juhina @ Maji Bookshelf rated it 13 years ago
3.5/5 starsThe Princesses of Iowa is a book about a high society girl who gets into an ‘accident’ with a bunch of her friends during her last days of her spring semester and ends up being exiled to work as a nanny in Paris. Now you might think this is glamorous, but in fact the time she spent there ...
Books With Bite
Books With Bite rated it 13 years ago
Every time I think of this book, my heart breaks. This is one of those books that you read and will always stick with you. Even now, after weeks of reading it, my heart still clenches of what this girl went through.The plot line of this book is what drives the reader. The reader is introduced to Pai...
The Book Life
The Book Life rated it 13 years ago
I love a book that has a solid group of characters and this book was so expertly character driven. The story starts with Paige coming home from a summer away and trying to fit back into her perfect, popular world. The problem is that nothing feels the same since she and her two best friends were in ...
Great Imaginations
Great Imaginations rated it 14 years ago
10 pages in and there's this. "Because maybe your best friend was making a total slut of herself with a college guy and then disappeared for an hour, leaving you to make small talk with her brother and drink the rum and Cokes he keeps handing you until you can hardly see straight and you can't stop ...
A Reader's Heart
A Reader's Heart rated it 56 years ago
This book is centered around Paige Sheridan, a popular girl who comes back from Paris to face the aftermath of an accident that happened before she left home.When I first started reading this book, I absolutely loathed Paige - and nothing changed. She was a stuck-up, judgmental little hypocrite, to...
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