Cindy Ella
Robin Palmer
Prom.
The best dress. The best shoes. The best date. Cindy Ella Gold is sick of it all.
Prom fever has infected L.A.- especially Cindy's two annoying stepsisters and her overly Botoxed stepmother. Cindy seems to be the only one immune to it all. But her anti-prom letter in the school newspaper does more to turn Cindy into Queen of the Freaks than to close the gap between the popular kids and the rest of the students. Everyone think she's committed social suicide, except for her two best friends-the yoga goddess India and John Hughes-worshipping Malcolm-and shockingly, the most popular senior at Castle Heights High and Cindy's crush, Adam Silver. But with a little bit of help from an an unexpected, and the perfect pair of shoes- Cindy realizes that she still has a chance at at happily ever after.
First of all, let me just point out that this book is very predictable. I bet anyone could figure out what is to happen just by reading the back of the book (or above). I mean you can just tell by the title it is a spin off of the fairy tale, so just by using that format, you can figure out the whole book. Secondly, the sisters are the total extreme of Prom. Well, okay, it's not like i have been to a prom (too young), but just common sense tells me that Cindy's sister are the highest form of extreme promist. They need a designer dress made especially for them so they have their mom black mail an designer. Not pyschotic at all. And then some people disagree with Prom, but they don't have to bring everyone's mood down with their disagreement. I mean so you don't like prom, fine. But don't go crazy because you can't convince everyone to be anti-prom.
This is not to say that i didn't like the book. (you're probably thinking i am crazy haha). It was sweet, and i liked the ending. I also love how Robin Palmer, like Sarah Dessen, uses the same setting for their books. (Geek Charming), though not as complex as Dessen's. So the extremes of the story i guess are only the makings of a story, and make it more interesting. It's just in real life i don't think teens would be as crazed. Okay so i liked this book. You should read it, but if you can't read it right now, you'll live. You can wait for this book, or even try the library.
