sc104906's review against another edition
2.0
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Piper earned a scholarship to attend a Chiswick Academy. Piper has dreams of becoming the next big journalist and knows that Chiswick will give her the best opportunity to do that. She must win the big journalism scholarship if she hopes to have the funds to attend college. Piper knows that if she manages to get a big expose in the school's paper, she will be on the fast track for the scholarship. Surrounded by foreign diplomat's children, who get up to some pretty sketchy activities, Piper plans to blow this diplomatic immunity/no culpability for these rich kids wide open. (Nothing like a bit of biting the hand that feeds you.) Inevitably, Piper finds herself attracted to Raf, a diplomats son, obviously. Treachery and blurred lines ensue.
I was not a fan of this book. I did like the fact that Raf and Piper connected through their brothers, who both have Asperger's syndrome. Other than that, the characters were vapid and the plot was boring.
Piper earned a scholarship to attend a Chiswick Academy. Piper has dreams of becoming the next big journalist and knows that Chiswick will give her the best opportunity to do that. She must win the big journalism scholarship if she hopes to have the funds to attend college. Piper knows that if she manages to get a big expose in the school's paper, she will be on the fast track for the scholarship. Surrounded by foreign diplomat's children, who get up to some pretty sketchy activities, Piper plans to blow this diplomatic immunity/no culpability for these rich kids wide open. (Nothing like a bit of biting the hand that feeds you.) Inevitably, Piper finds herself attracted to Raf, a diplomats son, obviously. Treachery and blurred lines ensue.
I was not a fan of this book. I did like the fact that Raf and Piper connected through their brothers, who both have Asperger's syndrome. Other than that, the characters were vapid and the plot was boring.
biblialex's review against another edition
1.0
"Realistic" is a complete misnomer, and not just because the National Arboretum and the U.S. Botanic Garden are two completely different places. Inconveniently, I also did not find the romance the least bit romantic. Le sigh.
resslesa's review against another edition
3.0
I was hoping for another 'Fixer' series, and although it started off well, overall it was predictable, and I do not understand how or why the protagonist has a car in DC. It's an important plot point, but I just don't see someone living in DC as needing a car -or as the ambassador's houses being that huge as they are still in the heart of DC.
A fun read but not one I need to buy for the library.
A fun read but not one I need to buy for the library.
kanksuu's review against another edition
1.0
Rating - no rating as of now because I DNF this book
Okay, so i tried. I swear, I really did. Brodi Ashton's name came to me highly recommended, and this book drew me in with its blurb - it sounded like a delicious mix of Scandal and Gossip Girl, two shows I will always be down for.
It couldn't be farther from the truth. The book moved along awfully slowly, Piper is a snivelling, whiny idiot and her way of describing Rafael just made me so, so uncomfortable. I cringed everytime she referred to him as 'exotic'.
I came here expecting a lot of drama, rich kid debauchery, backstabbing and more, but the only thing Piper delivered was a continuous drone of "oh no look at me I'm so much better than the rich kids because I'm poor so I'm going to win this scholarship by doing an exposé on their wild ways but oh no look I'm falling in love with one of them whatever will I do now?"
Also, fun fact, I know someone whose father is an Ambassador and they don't get diplomatic immunity in schools. What the fuck kind of bullshit is that? If they pulled the kind of shit Rafael does, it would reflect terribly on their home country and it would be a media shit storm.
Maybe one day, when I learn to shut off my brain completely, I'll come back to this book. For now, it lies discarded at barely 25%.
Okay, so i tried. I swear, I really did. Brodi Ashton's name came to me highly recommended, and this book drew me in with its blurb - it sounded like a delicious mix of Scandal and Gossip Girl, two shows I will always be down for.
It couldn't be farther from the truth. The book moved along awfully slowly, Piper is a snivelling, whiny idiot and her way of describing Rafael just made me so, so uncomfortable. I cringed everytime she referred to him as 'exotic'.
I came here expecting a lot of drama, rich kid debauchery, backstabbing and more, but the only thing Piper delivered was a continuous drone of "oh no look at me I'm so much better than the rich kids because I'm poor so I'm going to win this scholarship by doing an exposé on their wild ways but oh no look I'm falling in love with one of them whatever will I do now?"
Also, fun fact, I know someone whose father is an Ambassador and they don't get diplomatic immunity in schools. What the fuck kind of bullshit is that? If they pulled the kind of shit Rafael does, it would reflect terribly on their home country and it would be a media shit storm.
Maybe one day, when I learn to shut off my brain completely, I'll come back to this book. For now, it lies discarded at barely 25%.
emjrasmussen's review against another edition
In retrospect, I guess this book's blurb makes it clear that Diplomatic Immunity is first and foremost a romance. But for some reason, I was expecting something more thriller-esque—like Embassy Row meets The Fixer. In that regard, this book disappointed me a bit (although that's really more my fault than anything). Plus, the ending felt a little rushed and too neatly tied up. Overall a fun read, but sadly not quite as dramatic as I hoped for.
charmaineac's review against another edition
2.0
I'm always a sucker for books that intertwine politics in them. I just felt like Piper was a bit young. She has too much tunnel vision. She needs to realize the consequences of her actions. Maybe she didn't plan to publish the exposé, but she still thought those thoughts. They still reveal how she feels about "the DIs," and I honestly don't think she deserves respect from any of them.
I also have no idea what was wrong with Samuel. He didn't deserve the treatment he got, just because some other guy was 10x more alpha.
She gambled everything on a scholarship, which is just way too much pressure to put on herself. How could her parents be willing to go along with that? I suppose it's the same financial irresponsibility that got them in a hole in the first place. Piper had her own Toyota. Throughout the book, it was ridiculed and looked down upon. This is a teenage girl. She doesn't need her own car! I've read somewhere that scrapping a second car can save you approximately $110,000. That's a sizeable amount of money. I just don't have sympathy for people with poor financial sense. Piper is ashamed of being poor, but her family isn't smart about how they use their money.
I'll get off my high horse now.
I also have no idea what was wrong with Samuel. He didn't deserve the treatment he got, just because some other guy was 10x more alpha.
She gambled everything on a scholarship, which is just way too much pressure to put on herself. How could her parents be willing to go along with that? I suppose it's the same financial irresponsibility that got them in a hole in the first place. Piper had her own Toyota. Throughout the book, it was ridiculed and looked down upon. This is a teenage girl. She doesn't need her own car! I've read somewhere that scrapping a second car can save you approximately $110,000. That's a sizeable amount of money. I just don't have sympathy for people with poor financial sense. Piper is ashamed of being poor, but her family isn't smart about how they use their money.
I'll get off my high horse now.
amanda1620's review against another edition
4.0
I really like the characters in this book, even though some of them are very brief and they are not very strong, but at least the main characters are funny and strong. I enjoyed Piper's internal conversation and her relationship with her grandma. The story is also very realistic and portrays the hardship of life and the nice life of people with immunity, the things that they are allowed to do. I also really like the ending of the book, although it would be nice to see more explanation how Raf ended up back in DC again and attending the same university as Piper.
aovenus's review against another edition
2.0
This book simply doesn't make any sense. The entire book revolves around whether or not Piper should publish her story about Rafael in order to get the scholarship. She did all these research and agonized pages on whether or not to publish it for the sake of her college tuition. But when it was finally published, it was published in the people's magazine, ANONYMOUSLY... as in no one knew she wrote it and therefore would not help her get the scholarship AT ALL!
But I gave it 2 stars (instead of 1) because despite the major plotline fail, and Piper's annoying inner dialogs that often went off on a tangent, the setting was somewhat intriguing and the characters in the story were adorable. Too bad the author ruined the potential this book could've had.
But I gave it 2 stars (instead of 1) because despite the major plotline fail, and Piper's annoying inner dialogs that often went off on a tangent, the setting was somewhat intriguing and the characters in the story were adorable. Too bad the author ruined the potential this book could've had.