Title: Kill The Boy Band
Author: Goldy Moldavsky
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published Date: February 23rd 2016
Genre: YA, Contemporary, Mystery, Humor
Page Count:320
Format: Kindle
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
Goodreads Summary:
Just know from the
start that it wasn't supposed to go like this. All we wanted was to get
near them. That's why we got a room in the hotel where they were
staying.
We were not planning to kidnap one of them. Especially
not the most useless one. But we had him-his room key, his cell phone,
and his secrets.
We were not planning on what happened next.
We swear.
From
thrilling new talent Goldy Moldavsky comes a pitch-black, hilarious
take on fandom and the badass girls who have the power to make-or
break-the people we call "celebrities."
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My Review:
"The joy you find as a teen, however frivolous and
dumb, is pure, and meaningful. It doesn't matter that it might ferment and
taste different when you're older. That's the whole point of being a teenager-
not worrying about the future."
In this story we have the main protagonist and here three
friends who all love the Ruperts. (They were put together on a British TV show
and only three of the four can actually sing.)
We have Apple who loves Rupert P (the one who can’t sing and
instead juggles) and whose parents are insanely rich.
Isabel who loves Rupert L and runs a site dedicated to
gossip on the boys.
Erin who loves Rupert X and we find out later on has motive
to dislike the boys.
Then we have the main protagonist, whose real name we never
actually learn. But she loves Rupert K, and she turns out to be an unreliable
source for information on what actually happened.
This story is hilarious at times, but it also is very
serious at others. We have four teenagers who are a part of a fandom that can
go a bit overboard at times. With three of them having taken things way to far
at times.
"The fangirls of today are a way more sophisticated
bunch. Loving someone so fiercely gave us permission to also be critical of
them. You'll find the biggest Ruper critics in Strepurs. Sometimes we won't
like a tattoo they'll get, or we'll think a haircut makes them look like a drug
addict, or we'll make fun of the way they'll pose in photographs. Just because
we teased did not mean we didn't also love. Fandom is a complicated
culture."
But I will also admit that I related a little bit to this
story as well. I’ve been a fangirl about things before as well, and still am
about other things. Having said that though I do notice that some people in
fandoms do take their love a little too far, especially when it starts causing
harm to either them or others around them or the celebrity that they love so
much. It’s an easy thing to have happen in the technology age we now live in.
We have more access than ever before to famous people and because of that we
tend to start thinking we actually know them, and have a say in what they
say/do. But the truth is we don’t know what is really happening in their lives,
because we only see a projected image, which is something that is addressed in
this book.
Let’s get back to what actually happened in this book, and
how the girls dealt with it.
So you know that they kidnapped one of the boys, and that
they have no real idea what to do with him, now that they have him.. Well they
get a bit creative, not only in the way they tie him up, but also in the way
they deal with him once he wakes up. The girls eventually find out something
they can use against him, and use it to get information needed, not only to see
the other boys, but to make him do what they want.
But after a little while, the girls start having split
opinions about what to do, and how they are going to get rid of him without
getting into trouble. This becomes a big problem, one that causes far more
group meetings/arguments between them then they had ever had before. We also
see the girls interact with people around the boys.
We also learn how maybe they weren’t as good as friends as they
had once thought with each of them keeping secrets from each other. Making each
of them is a possible suspect.
I did like this story, and found it entertaining. I was not
expecting that to be the person who had actually done it though, she did seem
to have a reason to be upset with him.
"Maybe I'd told to many lies. I'd always made up
stories. Had the lines just blurred between the real ones and the fake
ones?"
Title: Prince In Disguise
