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357h3r's review against another edition
5.0
I have seen this book in the school library for ages but I put off reading it. One of my friends then recommended it to me and I'm sooo glad she did. I loved it.
hannicole13's review against another edition
4.0
this book surprised me. the description felt slightly misleading because i felt more wrapped up in their individual stories than in the PSST situation. but i really liked it!
dillanmissyhart's review against another edition
5.0
This was such a well-done book. When I was first asked to read this book, I was a little hesitant when I realized it was told in first person from three different perspectives. However, the characters were so unique and fleshed out that I could tell who was speaking and it wasn’t confusing for me. They each had their own voices and I loved that about them.
First, we have Ady – the popular, cool kid from a rich family, who is hiding that her whole world is falling apart at home.
Then there’s Clem. She’s the jock and on the swim team. She sprained her wrist and had to take some time off from swimming. During that time she gained weight and met a boy. An older boy. She makes some bad decisions while dealing with body image issues.
Finally, there is Kate. Kate is the brainiac and the musician. Her family wants her to become a doctor, but she wants to be a cellist. She doesn’t know who to make happy.
Their private school is offering a wellness class to help the students deal with stress, depression, and anxiety. The teacher teams them up with others based on their thumb sizes. These three unlikely friends have the longest thumbs of the class and find themselves forced to socialize with one another.
There’s also the PSST website. No one knows who they are, but they’re often putting up mean, hateful things about girls in the three main private schools in the area. All three of the protagonists are targeted and they find they need to pull together to get through it and figure out a way to take down the PSST website.
This was such a fun story! The characters are flawed and relatable. I love the message of hope and friendship that is in this. The writing was great. Even though from a plot standpoint there were parts that didn’t feel they were moving, so much was happening in the characters’ arcs. The plot was still great though. I just tend to read more fantasy which has crazy stuff happening in practically every chapter.
Let me talk for a moment about the character arcs. Characters arcs are what make a story for me. These characters are so flawed and struggle with so much. They’re basic teen struggles, but there are three of them. Watching the character development throughout this story was such a fun experience. Sometimes I felt like being the mom by helping them and offer suggestions. “Just talk to your parents/friend/teacher!!!” As the mom of teens, I know they don’t do that. This was real and painful and beautifully done. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it insightful and easy to read. Also – FLOWER POWER!! Okay, seriously, just read it to understand.
I loved this book!
Trigger and Content Warnings: body shaming, homophobia, bullying, profanity, sex (not steamy)
This book was sent to me in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.
First, we have Ady – the popular, cool kid from a rich family, who is hiding that her whole world is falling apart at home.
Then there’s Clem. She’s the jock and on the swim team. She sprained her wrist and had to take some time off from swimming. During that time she gained weight and met a boy. An older boy. She makes some bad decisions while dealing with body image issues.
Finally, there is Kate. Kate is the brainiac and the musician. Her family wants her to become a doctor, but she wants to be a cellist. She doesn’t know who to make happy.
Their private school is offering a wellness class to help the students deal with stress, depression, and anxiety. The teacher teams them up with others based on their thumb sizes. These three unlikely friends have the longest thumbs of the class and find themselves forced to socialize with one another.
There’s also the PSST website. No one knows who they are, but they’re often putting up mean, hateful things about girls in the three main private schools in the area. All three of the protagonists are targeted and they find they need to pull together to get through it and figure out a way to take down the PSST website.
This was such a fun story! The characters are flawed and relatable. I love the message of hope and friendship that is in this. The writing was great. Even though from a plot standpoint there were parts that didn’t feel they were moving, so much was happening in the characters’ arcs. The plot was still great though. I just tend to read more fantasy which has crazy stuff happening in practically every chapter.
Let me talk for a moment about the character arcs. Characters arcs are what make a story for me. These characters are so flawed and struggle with so much. They’re basic teen struggles, but there are three of them. Watching the character development throughout this story was such a fun experience. Sometimes I felt like being the mom by helping them and offer suggestions. “Just talk to your parents/friend/teacher!!!” As the mom of teens, I know they don’t do that. This was real and painful and beautifully done. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it insightful and easy to read. Also – FLOWER POWER!! Okay, seriously, just read it to understand.
I loved this book!
Trigger and Content Warnings: body shaming, homophobia, bullying, profanity, sex (not steamy)
This book was sent to me in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.
leaafle's review against another edition
2.0
I don’t really know how to explain how I feel about this book. I just did not enjoy it. I read it but I never really connected with the characters or the storyline. Part of this is most likely because I was given this book and read it when I was in Year 5 and didn’t fully understand the content of the book. Even then, the writing just wasn’t for me and I spent the majority of the time reading line after line but never fully getting into the story if you know what I mean.
I can understand why other people might like it so much, but it wasn’t a book that I could read and enjoy, hence the 2 stars. But if anyone sees this review when looking for a book, don’t let what I say affect your decision. I was probably just too young to grasp the concepts when I read it and the displeasure of the first read spoiled it in future for me. The book that I didn’t like reading may be one that really helps you.
I can understand why other people might like it so much, but it wasn’t a book that I could read and enjoy, hence the 2 stars. But if anyone sees this review when looking for a book, don’t let what I say affect your decision. I was probably just too young to grasp the concepts when I read it and the displeasure of the first read spoiled it in future for me. The book that I didn’t like reading may be one that really helps you.
lawbooks600's review against another edition
4.0
7/10, a rather interesting book about wellness, and how 3 people's stories connect to each other.
noura_rizk's review against another edition
3.0
It was not the best thing I've read, I was bored to death, but I also couldn't put it down, I was a little in love with everything.
Cath Crowley's books are growing on me.. But still "Deep Blue words" is my favorite.
Cath Crowley's books are growing on me.. But still "Deep Blue words" is my favorite.
lavaplant's review
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Nobody does it like Aussie YA x3 - there really is a different maturity
yasminix24's review against another edition
4.0
I don't think many of us forget that rigid, often callous social strata that existed in your high school years. Like a primordial dictate against which we are helpless, our position was sniffed out and handed down. Take Three Girls captures a bit of this experience through the use of three protagonists, each from a different part of the social spectrum. Kate, introverted, self-sufficient, highly intelligent and studious, talented cellist. Clem, a rough diamond, member of the school's star swim team. Ady - the effortlessly stylish and outwardly appearing wealthy popular girl.
The three are initially forced to come together as part of a school exercise and all go on a journey of self-discovery as they tackle life obstacles and difficult decisions. The overarching question of their quest - as is for all of us, all through life seemingly - is who am I really, what is it that I really want and am I doing it for me or someone else?
It is a great read and a number of real, really difficult issues are taken on: cyber bullying, same sex relationships, personal identity at a cusp of life, tipping from following what our parents and society expect us to do, and what our deepest self suspects we want to do.
I would have liked more insight into that 'popular' social strata to better understand their motivations for how and why they are like they are (because clearly I never understood it). Ady is a bit too easily pulled away from her popular crowd - though her state of mind is at a point of disaffection with them all from early on in the book. For me, she seemed too bright and alternative to have stomached her vacuous crowd up to the age of 16.
Terrific, fulfilling read. I love narratives that are driven from a number of different perspectives!
The three are initially forced to come together as part of a school exercise and all go on a journey of self-discovery as they tackle life obstacles and difficult decisions. The overarching question of their quest - as is for all of us, all through life seemingly - is who am I really, what is it that I really want and am I doing it for me or someone else?
It is a great read and a number of real, really difficult issues are taken on: cyber bullying, same sex relationships, personal identity at a cusp of life, tipping from following what our parents and society expect us to do, and what our deepest self suspects we want to do.
I would have liked more insight into that 'popular' social strata to better understand their motivations for how and why they are like they are (because clearly I never understood it). Ady is a bit too easily pulled away from her popular crowd - though her state of mind is at a point of disaffection with them all from early on in the book. For me, she seemed too bright and alternative to have stomached her vacuous crowd up to the age of 16.
Terrific, fulfilling read. I love narratives that are driven from a number of different perspectives!
oliviaaschumer's review against another edition
4.0
A lovely contemporary read set in Australia. Not very memorable but still an enjoyable read
becandbooks's review against another edition
TW: misogyny, slut shaming, fat shaming, rape, drug/alcohol addiction
When I finished this book I had a lot of mixed emotions. I honestly did not know how I was going to rate such a book. I put the review off countless times because of the emotion that came from thinking about this book. It was a bit of a rollercoaster.
Because here is the thing.
+As far as the plot goes, I honestly found it too slow and quite cliche.
+As a YA book, I found incredibly compelling, informative, honest, big-issue-tackling, full of positive female rep, and I L O V E D the bi rep.
+And then there was this one scene. That one scene made me so incredibly upset and disappointed at this book.
A lot of the positive feedback on this book concentrates on ALL THE GOOD IMPORTANT THINGS that this book brings to light. Of which I believe the authors deserve applause for.
Take Three Girls covers cyberbullying, self-image, feminism and the gender discrimination, sexuality, and the importance of friendship and having a support circle. This book contains so many important discussion points that should be included in YA books. And if I could just base it off this the book was heading for a 3- to 4-star review.
But in amongst all these super important themes that the book explores and discusses, they missed one. The authors threw something in and then chose to not name it, not discuss it further, and therefore I also haven't seen a single review discuss it's poor inclusion in this book.
About halfway through the book, one of the MCs is raped. The entire scene is about a page long, but at no point is it made explicitly obvious to the reader. Following the scene, there is a comment from another MC about sex, but it's pretty much implied as consensual.
I read the rest of the book, desperate to find some sort of reference to the scene occurring but there was nothing.
If you want to hear a further discussion, check out my full review.
Simply put though; If you are to include something in a book that is of this nature, be clear and explicit about what it is. Do not put in this scene and then leave out all further discussion of it. Do not refuse to name it.
This one scene brought a potentially 4-star review down to 2-stars. I give the book credit for all that it did, but the poor way this scene was handled is just too concerning for me to ignore.
In many ways, this is a good book. But that scene ruined it for me. The ways the authors chose to handle the scene ruined it for me.
And honestly, it's a shame.
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When I finished this book I had a lot of mixed emotions. I honestly did not know how I was going to rate such a book. I put the review off countless times because of the emotion that came from thinking about this book. It was a bit of a rollercoaster.
Because here is the thing.
+As far as the plot goes, I honestly found it too slow and quite cliche.
+As a YA book, I found incredibly compelling, informative, honest, big-issue-tackling, full of positive female rep, and I L O V E D the bi rep.
+And then there was this one scene. That one scene made me so incredibly upset and disappointed at this book.
"I need to pop the delusion bubble and grow some fangs"
A lot of the positive feedback on this book concentrates on ALL THE GOOD IMPORTANT THINGS that this book brings to light. Of which I believe the authors deserve applause for.
Take Three Girls covers cyberbullying, self-image, feminism and the gender discrimination, sexuality, and the importance of friendship and having a support circle. This book contains so many important discussion points that should be included in YA books. And if I could just base it off this the book was heading for a 3- to 4-star review.
“I hear longing in these notes. They go all the way to the past and forward to some future where I haven't yet arrived.”
But in amongst all these super important themes that the book explores and discusses, they missed one. The authors threw something in and then chose to not name it, not discuss it further, and therefore I also haven't seen a single review discuss it's poor inclusion in this book.
Spoiler
About halfway through the book, one of the MCs is raped. The entire scene is about a page long, but at no point is it made explicitly obvious to the reader. Following the scene, there is a comment from another MC about sex, but it's pretty much implied as consensual.
I read the rest of the book, desperate to find some sort of reference to the scene occurring but there was nothing.
If you want to hear a further discussion, check out my full review.
Simply put though; If you are to include something in a book that is of this nature, be clear and explicit about what it is. Do not put in this scene and then leave out all further discussion of it. Do not refuse to name it.
This one scene brought a potentially 4-star review down to 2-stars. I give the book credit for all that it did, but the poor way this scene was handled is just too concerning for me to ignore.
In many ways, this is a good book. But that scene ruined it for me. The ways the authors chose to handle the scene ruined it for me.
And honestly, it's a shame.
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