Epic Fail Review
Epic Fail
Claire LaZebnik
Young Adult
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen
ISBN-13: 978-0061921261
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Overall Rating: 5/5
Coral Tree
Prep in Los Angeles, is a school where people are known and judged by who their
parents are. Which totally sucks for Elise because not only did her parents
send her to a new school, her father is a teacher there and her mother is the
new principle. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem but when you go to school
with people Derek Edwards who is the son of Hollywood’s “It Couple”, anyone
would find their parents seriously lacking.
When Elise’s sister Juliana starts hanging out with
Derek’s best friend Chase, Elise starts seeing a lot more of Derek than she
wants to, in turn making her the envy of all of the other girls in school.
Elise could care less about Derek Edwards and who his parents are. But when a
misunderstanding breaks up Chase and Juliana, it’s up to Elise and Derek to
work together to help the couple get back together.
On the first day of school and Elise meets two hot but very
different guys. The first one is none other Mr. Cool himself Derek
Edwards. Though Derek is ridiculously handsome and his parents are famous
and everyone wants him for one reason or another, Elise thinks he’s kind of a
jerk. Thankfully he isn’t the only guy in the whole school, guy number two is
the ever charming school outcast Webster Grant. He’s handsome, smart, and has a
great sense of humor, he always makes Elise laugh. But he just so happens to be
the enemy of Derek.
But people aren’t always what they appear to be on the outside.
Elise has a lot on her plate her parents, friends, enemies, frienemies, boys,
and her three sisters. Soon Elise learns there are three sides to every story
person A, person B, and the truth. Elise also learns that there is more to
Derek Edward than meets the eye. Like the fact that the only thing Derek wants
in life is to be left alone, and to have the every girl stop throwing
themselves at him and let him breathe.
I knew I had to get my hands on this book, something about it
just called to me. So when I opened my mail and I found the book inside a
package I stopped everything and started to read. It only took me two hours to
finished and my final thought is I loved LOVED this book.
I shouldn’t say anymore I should just let this one speak for itself. Seriously
I loved everything about this book. The writing style, the plot, the characters
even the one I really wanted to slap the taste out of their mouths.
Elise, this was the type of girl I could really be friends with.
She was smart, had a good personality , she was funny, loyal, and she always
had a comeback. When someone snapped at her, she always gave as good as
she got.
The relationship between Elise and Derek was what I really loved
the most. Almost every book is about a couple who fell in love after one look
and this was not of those books. Thanks the powers that be. Sure when Elsie saw
Derek she thought he was handsome but the relationship didn’t take off from
there. Like in real life they grow on each other, they fought and at times they
weren’t even speaking. And it made it all seem real to me.
Ms. LaZebnik, is now on my auto-buy list. When she comes out
with another book I will buy it, whatever it may be about. I recommend this
book to everyone, I don't care what you read, you'll love this.
{Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the author
to enable my review. All opinions presented here are my own.}
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