Beauty Queens
From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, a desert island classic.Survival. Of the fittest.The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner. What's a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program - or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a perfect tan - or learn to run wild? And what should happen when the sexy pirates show up? Welcome to the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Your tour guide? None other than Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Going Bovine. The result is a novel that will make you laugh, make you think, and make you never see beauty the same way again.
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I am so overwhelmed with love and appreciation for this novel- just when I thought I'd never read anything crazier than Going Bovine, Libba writes this enormous gem. This is the novel with which you will literally have a fantastic laugh, cry at all the meaningful goo, and gasp at during the most unexpectedly suspenseful plot, ever. Even through all the completely hilarious, sardonic fluff, it is immanent how much work and heart Libba puts in to every one of her books; from research to developing the most identifiable characters. I genuinely love her use of satire to bring about the most honest, feministic-ally supportive book I have ever read.
Don't even second-guess yourself, just read this novel. I can't even express in words how much of a treat it was to experience. :)
Don't even second-guess yourself, just read this novel. I can't even express in words how much of a treat it was to experience. :)
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