The Clique -- Lisi Harrison

Ages ago, Lauren told me that if I was going to read one of the Gossip Girl books, I should do so on an empty stomach. She was so right.  The Clique isn't one of that series, but it's in the same genre: Early Bret Easton Ellis for the 13/14-year-old set.

It just made me crabby. Every single character in it was either stupid, shallow, a moral weakling, spoiled rotten, a bitch or some combination of the five. UGH.

At the same time, I can totally see how reading the series could become compulsive.

It reminded me of the movie Mean Girls, except the author tried to make the girls seem sort of sympathetic. I'm sorry, but it's hard to feel any sort of warmth towards someone that dumps a bowl of gazpacho over an innocent person's head. Ugh. Now I feel all crabby again. Yuck. Yuck yuck yuck.