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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Book Review ~ It Started With A Dare

By Lindsey Faith Rech
Published by Graphia
Released On September 13, 2010
Source Netgalley(Publisher)
3 stars- It's A Good Read

Self-proclaimed nobody CG Silverman sees her move to an upscale new school as her chance to be somebody different. Her devil-may-care attitude attracts the in-clique, and before CG realizes it, a routine game of truth or dare launches her to iconic status. While this rebel image helps secure CG’s newfound popularity, it also propels her through a maze of unprecedented chaos, with each new lie and every dare opening doors that, in most cases, were better off left shut. CG is on a collision course with disaster. Will she be able to keep up the façade? Or will the whole world find out she’s a fraud?

It Started With a Dare is a fast paced, funny, engaging read; Rech creates a storyline that starts off similar to the movie Mean Girls, but eventually develops into a storyline, with a very different outcome. Without spoiling to much- one thing I loved about the book is that when you(the reader) finally meet the real "CG" she surprises you.

When "CG's" father takes a job an hour away from her old life, she figures it's time to reinvent herself. She ditches her old BFF's and starts new. On her first day the most popular girls in school sits down to have a chat with her - they like her rebel attitude. So that is the persona she takes, to fit in with the "in" crowd. During a sleepover they decided to play "CG's" made up game - Truth or Dare or Torture. "CG" isn't sure what that is, exactly, but she plans on winging it - she tends to just "wingit" during the majority of the book; which ends up being very funny.

The game plays on throughout the book - until finally the truth is told. Lots of stuff is going on in this book, all things teenagers deal with - underage drinking, foul language, lying to parents, cybering with an adult, and more. Personally, I would wait a few years before letting my preteen read this book, it does contain things that tend to "scare away" parents - but in the end, the book teaches a few lessons.

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