Synopsis:
When one of their friends mysteriously disappears, a group of teens are forced to confront the challenges and secrets of their lives in this edgy and suspenseful coming-of-age tale from international supermodel, actress, and social media darling Cara Delevingne.
Among the students of Thames Comprehensive, Red, Leo, Rose, and Naomi are misfits—outsiders who have found a safe haven in music and their band, Mirror, Mirror. For these sixteen year olds, fitting in at school is nearly as difficult as navigating their complicated home lives. Red has an alcoholic mother and a father who’s never around. Leo’s brother is in prison. Rose uses sex and alcohol to numb the pain of a brutal attack. Naomi’s punk rock princess persona gives her the freedom to be her true self.
When Naomi mysteriously vanishes and then is found unconscious, her friends are shaken and confused. Could it have been an accident—or did someone deliberately try to hurt Naomi? If she was in trouble, why didn’t she turn to them? How well do they really know their bandmate—and each other? If Naomi wakes up from her coma, will she ever be the same?
To understand what happened to Naomi, Red, Leo, and Rose must ultimately face their own dark secrets and fears, and reconcile the difference between what they feel inside and what they show to the world.
Review:
Is this a joke? Like literally? Was publishing this book some sort of April’s fool joke that the rest of the world missed out on? There has to be some logical explanation to this how this atrocity made it out into the world…
Mirror Mirror is a prime example of people that have a following behind their name and think they can get away with anything and do anything. News flash you can’t. Cara your eyebrows are amazing but your writing (or that of a ghost writer) literally sucks. Mirror Mirror was the biggest load of crap that I have ever read.
I wonder if the creation of the book went something like the following:
How shall we write this book? Let’s have it about teenagers living their lives… let’s also throw in: Drinking, tattoos (cause ya know these kids gotta be cool) swearing (also cool), parents that don’t care, trouble youths, dark backgrounds, twisted youth frustration, oh they play in a rock band (cause you know that’s cool too right?) more swearing, broken hearts and so on and so forth.
Pretty much anything that would sum up a YA contemporary lets just chuck that in the cauldron and see what spits out.
It spat out rubbish!!!!!
I don’t even know where to start with trying to explain how miserable this book was…
Let’s start with the characters. No descriptions. They could all be bald with a dick tattooed on their face for all I know because there are barely any descriptions of the characters and if there was there wasn’t any follow up descriptions to ensure we know what the characters look like. Ie. Rose tucked a lock of blonde hair behind her ear before she spoke. You get my drift. Writing fail number 1!
The storyline was going somewhere… or rather it jumped through the kitchen window and headed for the hills before you had a chance to blink. Pointless. Heard it before. Unoriginal. Boring as watching grass grow. There was no suspense. No thrill. No chills. Or as I like to say a whole lot of talking and not a whole lot of action. Girl goes missing and they try and find her… sound familiar? Yeah because every third YA book is like this but only they are BETTER!
Also I don’t even think the blurb was written for this book… possibly a mistake? The blurb and what the book itself contains are two different things and wow it is actually just funny at this stage…
The writing was soooo terrible!!! Honest to god I have never seen writing this bad in my life. At this point if publishers can publish this dribble they will publish anyone. It is actually that bad that I thought to myself that even I can write better than this and ladies and gentlemen I am a harsher critic on myself than others so imagine how much I hate my own writing. Food for thought.
Finishing on a positive note, there was a fair amount of swearing in Mirror Mirror. To me this is fantastic because this is how teenagers speak!! A majority of them are not sweet and innocent they swear like a dirty rotten sailor and I know because I talk like a teenager. So points for actually have a realistic vocab range of the younger generation. And this is the ONLY thing that deserves the 1 star I gave this book.
Other than that this book this book was beyond a joke and I am still waiting for it to be funny. Can we seriously stop p***y footing around people? Respect their feelings but tell them the truth as well. If you have a friend that wears jeans that make her butt look big – TELL HER. If you have a friend that thinks he can sing but it sounds like his standing on a cat’s tail – TELL HIM. If you know someone that thinks they can write and well they can’t – CARA YOU CANNOT WRITE.
Rating: 1/5
ISBN: 9780062791566
Publisher: Harper
??? I loved this review! I mean I would never have picked the book up myself but now I’ll be doubly sure to never pick it up! ?
It was honestly that bad that I don’t think anyone should read it haha! I can always send you my copy if you wanted to read it?