Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #196385 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
Jinx Slater is delighted to have reached the giddy heights of the lower sixth at Stagmount, England's most exclusive school for girls. Her ground-floor window affords her an excellent view of Brighton's bright lights, and Jinx is a girl with escape on her mind and a miniature screw driver kit in her tuckbox. Liberty Latiffe, Jinx's best friend and all round perfect partner-in-crime, is not at all worried about being caught out by her very strict Muslim father. Nor are the rest of the girls. Until, that is, Stella Fox - Stagmount's newest new girl - arrives, determined to make her mark.

Customer Reviews

easy read, lots of fun
I found this very easy going, and very entertaining.
A hilarious update of the boarding school books I read when I was younger.

Disappointed
I haven't experienced such a disappointing read in a teen fiction book for some time.

I ignored the dire use of language (which is OK in dialogue but often unnecessary in a narrative) because the plot and the characters looked promising. The characters lived up to expectation, mostly, and were fully believable. The plot (as I thought) began to develop well, setting up a number of issues to be resolved.

This is where it falls apart though, in that these issues remain very much unresolved. We have a major, and much-loved character spirited away just when the 'baddy' has been dealt with (or so we think), and a resolution to an identity mystery that is summarily - and very weakly - dealt with by the introduction of an illegal immigrant. I turned the page, hoping to find out what the outcome would be and ... Yep! That's all folks!

If Ms Lawrence is intending to offer a sequel to this book, and is presenting us with a cliffhanger device here, then I'm afraid she hasn't done it very well.

High heels, high spirits and low morals
God do I love these girls: Jinx, Liberty and the whole slutty, lipsticked lot of them. And what an ogre she's given us in old whiskery Gunn! A joy--an unashamed romp! And for Brightonians, like myself, it's an homage to our seeedy Sodom-on-Sea.