![]() They were more flat, and therefore their sudden about-face seemed strange. I think the reason that the ending doesn’t work for me is that the popular characters were not as round as Steph. It is a very pat ending to an otherwise fairly realistic book about high school politics. In the end, they all end up hanging out together at a coffee house, which seems highly unlikely given that they all hated her not moments before. After that, of course, everyone hates her for being a killjoy. ![]() As one of her friends points out, why would she want to be friends with people who have been so cruel to her? She does succeed in being popular for a week, but it all comes crashing down when she refuses to let the popular crowd have a big party in her grandfather’s observatory. ![]() I wasn’t really convinced of Steph’s reason for wanting to be popular, which is that she is tired of being a social outcast and hated by everyone except her two friends. ![]() Mia ( Princess Diaries) is a much more engaging central character than Steph ( How to be Popular). I was a little bit disappointed, as it wasn’t quite as good as her Princess Diaries series. Meg Cabot is one of my favorite young adult authors, so I expected a good book when I started this one. ![]()
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