Seventeen-year-old Stella Hamilton is the star blazing at the heart of Temperley High. Leader of the maliciously exclusive elite, she is envied and lusted after in equal measure. And in the Hamilton tradition, she is in the final stage of a six-year campaign to achieve her destiny: love with her equally popular male equivalent, and a triumphant election to Head Girl.
Caitlin Clarke has lived a quietly conformist life in New York City – until, with the collapse of her parents’ marriage, she’s sent across the Atlantic for a strict English boarding school education. As soon as she arrives at Temperley, she learns that the only important rules are the unwritten ones. The upper echelons of her new society are marked not by neat dresses and Kate Middleton hair, but by skinny jeans, cigarettes and scars. It's a world of the beautiful and the dangerous, and acceptance means staying on the right side of the most beautiful and dangerous of them all.
As Caitlin’s popularity grows, she discovers that not everyone is happy under Stella’s rule – that it might finally be time for a new order among the Stars and the civilians. Fighting the system, however, means Caitlin must tread the same dark path as Stella, where absolute power and absolute destruction are only a breath away . . .
My Rating
-3/5-
I was lucky enough to win a advanced readers copy of this book. So Stella is in the point of view of two characters Stella herself and Caitlin. Which I have to say I liked Stella a lot more then I liked Caitlin.
Stella is the blonde popular girl who gets everything she could ever want. Seems perfect right? Well taking a closer look and she really isn't that perfect. Yes most of the school looks up to her and idolizes her. Though also most of the school thinks she is mean and controlling. But honestly she is just fighting to be feel close to her older sister Siena, and win Head Girl and to love her boyfriends Luke.
Caitlin, as her parents divorce and she is sent away from her mom and brother to a new school she just tries to fit in. She amazingly gets into Stella's group called the 'Stars.' At first Caitlin doesn't see the big deal and and tries to be nice to everyone. Caitlin really wants to be like Stella though, so she soon starts to try and be exactly like her, not matter the cost, like dumping the great friends she has or ignoring her family. She gets so consumed in being exactly like Stella.
As Caitlin starts to become as popular as Stella and more girls are competing for Head Girl even Caitlin, the two start to fight it out. Who can be more popular and who has more people on there side. Stella starts to de-friend girls on Caitlin's side. Also she gets so caught up in betting Caitlin that she jeopardizes her relationship with Luke. Caitlin tries to take Stella's boyfriend Luke away from her. Also she starts treating her friends as game pieces, and becomes mean and controlling just like Stella. Stella and Caitlin quickly become enemies. It is definitely a high school popularity contest filled with drama.
During the two fighting both girls change, for better and for worse. Stella for slightly better and Caitlin for worse.
The ending though is shocking and sad. Definitely a part I hated reading, because of what happened. Though not all endings in books can always be happy.
This book is filled a ton with teenage drama, family drama and love drama with love triangles every where. Also has a lot of hate, love and sadness, and sadly hardly any happiness.
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