Secrets of the Model Dorm Book Review
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 9:15AM | in Book Reviews, Fashion Next up in the "Beauty AND Brains" Book Reviews series is: Secrets of the Model Dorm by Amanda Kerlin
This book was very mediocre, but I read it until the end. It was all stereotypes: You have the party girl gold digging eastern european who speaks in 3rd person and screws Russian mobsters, check. Black girl who was kicked out the dorm for being a baby mama and who could dance, check. Sweet as pie christian who has the favor of the lord on her and all good things happen, check. Playboy french charmer modelizer, check. Bitchy boss/agent with gay happy boy assistant, check. Meh! I didn't find myself cheering for or even caring about any of the characters.
The protagonist is nice enough, but very laissez faire about everything. She CLAIMS to want to be some big model but wants to do none of the work for it. Sure, she goes on some castings, but the girls spend like every single night partying and getting drunk, then refuse to ever workout yet expect to drop weight. They whine about the "lucky bitch" who DOES get up every morning to workout and ends up snagging a huge campaign, yet don't put 2 and 2 together that maybe they should also workout and put some effort into things. She goes to the gym for half an hour ONE time the whole book, big whoop, then wonders why she isn't working. NONE of the girls in that dorm are working, so I don't know if they should even be called models, just party girls who want to bitch about everything.
The "love story" is weak at best. They go on 3 whole dates in 6 months, two of which he doesn't kiss her or anything, yet she's soooo wrapped up in him to the point that she won't date anyone else. You can tell that he's some slick talking suave playboy but she decides to take his side even when someone nice and helpful clearly has her best interests in mind and has done no wrong. Weak plotline with "Row-Bear" for sure.
I hated the inconsistent accessories mentions, one moment she's wearing Jimmy Choos and the next page she has on Louboutins (all in one car ride), get it together!
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Quick enough read, but not that exciting. Knew what was coming a mile away (not to mention we start the book 6 months in and then go back to lead up to it, so we are literally told what to expect) and it was way too cliche so there were NO surprises.
How convenient that at the end things just wrap up so nicely and the ONE little tiny piece of conflict (will she go to THIS meeting or THAT meeting???) was pretty lame and I find it hard to believe that out of the blue it just so happened on the day she had another super important meeting.
I give this a 2 out of 5 stars.
Have you ever read it? What's your favorite model point-of-view book?
It can be purchased here: Amazon
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