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lpcoolgirl's review against another edition
5.0
So great to read this book back to back with the Boyfriend App, so great, so enjoyable, and I loved it!
laprofedelengua's review against another edition
3.0
Después de leer The boyfriend app, ver la historia desde el punto de vista de la villana me hizo darme cuenta de que no era tan villana...o sea hizo cosas reprensibles pero en el fondo era buena (?)
Genial que Audrey y Blake hayan arreglado sus diferencias y una vez más hayan podido derrotar a Public. Con un poco de ayuda de un nerd dispuesto a enamorarse de una ex abeja reina.
Genial que Audrey y Blake hayan arreglado sus diferencias y una vez más hayan podido derrotar a Public. Con un poco de ayuda de un nerd dispuesto a enamorarse de una ex abeja reina.
daisy87's review
2.0
So I'd heard good things about The Boyfriend App and when I came across this companion, I thought well, why not? It sounded pretty cute and I am a big fan of America's Next Top Model and this sounded sorta like it mixed with a beauty pageant, so...
Well, let's just say that The Pretty App wasn't all I'd hoped it would be. I mean, Blake was ok, she's a flawed character, but she owns it and I kinda respected her for that. I also respected that she wanted to change, but just didn't know how. And I liked reading from the Queen Bee's POV for a change. We're pretty much always seeing things from the not-so-popular, not-really-ugly duckling side of things and I liked that Katie Sise switched it up. I also really felt for Blake with her family situation. I mean, she basically gets NO support whatsoever. Her dad is just plain hurtful, her mom doesn't stand up to him and her sister cut her out of her life 4 years ago. How is a girl supposed to cope with this?
I did sorta feel like I was missing things because I hadn't read The Boyfriend App first. The history between Blake and Audrey is mentioned and sort of gotten into what happened, but maybe I'd have more of a backstory if I'd read The Boyfriend App? I can't be sure of course, but it felt like there were some missing pieces that I should have been clued into if I'd read the companion.
And ok, don't kill me for saying this, but the whole Pretty App thing and the show around it felt so American to me! I mean, not in a bad way, but like, I'm not sure that would have gotten this kind of response in Holland. I kinda liked how Blake handled herself during the reality show, but I could also get how people aren't all that eager to forgive her for years of ruthlessly ruling Harrison High. You can't just erase all of that. So it also sorta felt off to me how easily the Trogs accepted her in their circle. Also, the Trogs seem like awesome people.
I couldn't really get behind the romance part of it. It all felt a little too iffy and all the lying or not fully telling the truth and then Blake totally got blindsided and it was just pretty awful. But mostly, I just wasn't feeling it. There was something off about the guy and I was never really sure if he was faking it or not and that bothered me.
Mostly, The Pretty App was an ok read, but it wasn't exciting or cute or fluffy or funny or any of the things I was expecting. And for a tagline that says it has a big-time romance, it fell pretty flat for me. I am however very curious to read The Boyfriend App!
My rating: 2 stars
Well, let's just say that The Pretty App wasn't all I'd hoped it would be. I mean, Blake was ok, she's a flawed character, but she owns it and I kinda respected her for that. I also respected that she wanted to change, but just didn't know how. And I liked reading from the Queen Bee's POV for a change. We're pretty much always seeing things from the not-so-popular, not-really-ugly duckling side of things and I liked that Katie Sise switched it up. I also really felt for Blake with her family situation. I mean, she basically gets NO support whatsoever. Her dad is just plain hurtful, her mom doesn't stand up to him and her sister cut her out of her life 4 years ago. How is a girl supposed to cope with this?
I did sorta feel like I was missing things because I hadn't read The Boyfriend App first. The history between Blake and Audrey is mentioned and sort of gotten into what happened, but maybe I'd have more of a backstory if I'd read The Boyfriend App? I can't be sure of course, but it felt like there were some missing pieces that I should have been clued into if I'd read the companion.
And ok, don't kill me for saying this, but the whole Pretty App thing and the show around it felt so American to me! I mean, not in a bad way, but like, I'm not sure that would have gotten this kind of response in Holland. I kinda liked how Blake handled herself during the reality show, but I could also get how people aren't all that eager to forgive her for years of ruthlessly ruling Harrison High. You can't just erase all of that. So it also sorta felt off to me how easily the Trogs accepted her in their circle. Also, the Trogs seem like awesome people.
I couldn't really get behind the romance part of it. It all felt a little too iffy and all the lying or not fully telling the truth and then Blake totally got blindsided and it was just pretty awful. But mostly, I just wasn't feeling it. There was something off about the guy and I was never really sure if he was faking it or not and that bothered me.
Mostly, The Pretty App was an ok read, but it wasn't exciting or cute or fluffy or funny or any of the things I was expecting. And for a tagline that says it has a big-time romance, it fell pretty flat for me. I am however very curious to read The Boyfriend App!
My rating: 2 stars
reader_fictions's review
2.0
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2.5 stars
Katie Sise’s The Boyfriend App turned out to be a surprise favorite, one of the few books to make me laugh so hard I cried. As such, The Pretty App was one of the rare cases when I was completely excited to hear the announcement of a surprise series. Bring on the ridiculousness, diversity, and LGBT+ positivity! My mistake was in assuming that The Pretty App would be very much in the same vein as The Boyfriend App. Though I liked The Pretty App, it didn’t have the humor I was hoping for and my interest very much waxed and waned throughout.
In The Boyfriend App, the main character was Audrey, a hacker and nerd. She was really easy to like. With The Pretty App, the heroine is the queen bee mean girl of Harrison High. She also happens to be Audrey’s ex-best friend. I do think it’s cool that Katie Sise took a risk and wrote a very different kind of heroine, one destined to be deemed unlikeable by a lot of readers.
Blake Dawkins has a lot of bad moments. In order to stay on top, she puts others down. All her life, her father, not with gubernatorial aspirations, has told her that all she had going for her was her attractiveness. Unsurprisingly, this has given her a complex, and the need to prove herself dominant for as long as being pretty is the only thing needed to be the best. However, though Blake is popular, she’s also not liked, because she treats people like shit.
Don’t worry, though. Blake has a character arc, albeit a somewhat clunky one. By getting involved in Public’s Pretty App and going on the reality television show, she learns more about her merits and being nicer to people. The main catalysts for her change, though, are Audrey and Leo, trogs (tech nerds) from Harrison High. The message is a good one, but rather heavy-handed.
My biggest problem wasn’t that Blake was often a jerk; it was that I mostly didn’t find Blake all that interesting. She lacked the vibrancy that brings characters to life in my brain. My interest in the novel at any given point was inconsistent, changing with each scene. There are the great moments, like when someone comes out to Blake, and she’s one hundred percent cool and supportive, when I was completely loving everything. The reality television show aspect was a lot of fun too, though that only began 173 pages into the book. I wish the app part had been briefer and the reality show part beefed up, even though the app was the foundation for the novel.
The romance also proved a stumbling block in my enjoyment. Blake and Leo go on one date (an all-day date to Chicago, because okay), he says all sorts of things hinting that he’s not who he pretends to be, she misses them, and then he disappears after telling her to believe that what they have is real. Blake’s tragic sad and shocked to learn his secret later on. I just could not get it up for their drama. They barely know each other, but they take their romance so seriously. Of course they don’t trust one another; they just met. The secret turned out not to be as creepy as I’d feared, but I still couldn’t get on board.
There was also a lot of random religion in this book, a feature I don’t remember from The Boyfriend App. Some people are religious, sure, but I didn’t feel like it really informed Blake’s character or the plot. There’s this scene where Blake and Audrey have just begun to reconcile and helped Blake’s sister with a problem; it was one of the best scenes in the book. Then, all of a sudden, Audrey goes “Now let’s get our prayer on,” and they proceed to pray for a full page (140). I just don’t get why this was in the book, except maybe as an effort to make Blake seem more “likeable.”
In the end, The Pretty App fell rather flat. It has some shining moments with the spirit I loved from The Boyfriend App, but mostly I didn’t care. I’ll still be watching for Katie Sise’s next book, but I hope it’s a bit heavier on the humor and lighter on people getting their prayer on.
2.5 stars
Katie Sise’s The Boyfriend App turned out to be a surprise favorite, one of the few books to make me laugh so hard I cried. As such, The Pretty App was one of the rare cases when I was completely excited to hear the announcement of a surprise series. Bring on the ridiculousness, diversity, and LGBT+ positivity! My mistake was in assuming that The Pretty App would be very much in the same vein as The Boyfriend App. Though I liked The Pretty App, it didn’t have the humor I was hoping for and my interest very much waxed and waned throughout.
In The Boyfriend App, the main character was Audrey, a hacker and nerd. She was really easy to like. With The Pretty App, the heroine is the queen bee mean girl of Harrison High. She also happens to be Audrey’s ex-best friend. I do think it’s cool that Katie Sise took a risk and wrote a very different kind of heroine, one destined to be deemed unlikeable by a lot of readers.
Blake Dawkins has a lot of bad moments. In order to stay on top, she puts others down. All her life, her father, not with gubernatorial aspirations, has told her that all she had going for her was her attractiveness. Unsurprisingly, this has given her a complex, and the need to prove herself dominant for as long as being pretty is the only thing needed to be the best. However, though Blake is popular, she’s also not liked, because she treats people like shit.
Don’t worry, though. Blake has a character arc, albeit a somewhat clunky one. By getting involved in Public’s Pretty App and going on the reality television show, she learns more about her merits and being nicer to people. The main catalysts for her change, though, are Audrey and Leo, trogs (tech nerds) from Harrison High. The message is a good one, but rather heavy-handed.
My biggest problem wasn’t that Blake was often a jerk; it was that I mostly didn’t find Blake all that interesting. She lacked the vibrancy that brings characters to life in my brain. My interest in the novel at any given point was inconsistent, changing with each scene. There are the great moments, like when someone comes out to Blake, and she’s one hundred percent cool and supportive, when I was completely loving everything. The reality television show aspect was a lot of fun too, though that only began 173 pages into the book. I wish the app part had been briefer and the reality show part beefed up, even though the app was the foundation for the novel.
The romance also proved a stumbling block in my enjoyment. Blake and Leo go on one date (an all-day date to Chicago, because okay), he says all sorts of things hinting that he’s not who he pretends to be, she misses them, and then he disappears after telling her to believe that what they have is real. Blake’s tragic sad and shocked to learn his secret later on. I just could not get it up for their drama. They barely know each other, but they take their romance so seriously. Of course they don’t trust one another; they just met. The secret turned out not to be as creepy as I’d feared, but I still couldn’t get on board.
There was also a lot of random religion in this book, a feature I don’t remember from The Boyfriend App. Some people are religious, sure, but I didn’t feel like it really informed Blake’s character or the plot. There’s this scene where Blake and Audrey have just begun to reconcile and helped Blake’s sister with a problem; it was one of the best scenes in the book. Then, all of a sudden, Audrey goes “Now let’s get our prayer on,” and they proceed to pray for a full page (140). I just don’t get why this was in the book, except maybe as an effort to make Blake seem more “likeable.”
In the end, The Pretty App fell rather flat. It has some shining moments with the spirit I loved from The Boyfriend App, but mostly I didn’t care. I’ll still be watching for Katie Sise’s next book, but I hope it’s a bit heavier on the humor and lighter on people getting their prayer on.
theherondale's review
4.0
Karena jalan pikiran Blake Dawkins itu jauuuh lebih menarik dibanding Audrey McCarthy
maisha's review
2.0
Check out my review of The Pretty App by Katie Sise at Books Equal Awesomeness!
I haven't read the first book yet, but I heard that this book could be read without reading the first one, so I read it anyway. I was honestly expecting so much more from this book.
The main character, Blake, was extremely annoying and selfish at first. All she cared about was her looks because she thought she had nothing else going for her other than that. She was mean because she thought that she was popular, so she had to be. Her actions were annoying. She keeps whining about how her life isn't perfect, and how miserable she is. Just because her life isn't perfect, doesn't make it right for her to make other people's lives miserable. And yeah she does change a lot in the end, but I never truly liked her throughout the entire story...
The plot and the whole romance was alright, but I found myself not really caring for the main character, the plot, the romance, the love interest, or anything to be honest. I felt like the whole story was more focused on relationships and feelings than anything else. And even that felt poorly executed. The plot was extremely boring and I actually didn't care about the reality-show part because it was just so obvious who would end up being the winner! And I was right about it too.
There was a twist in the romance, but I found it so obvious! Like there were so many hints that Leo was giving Blake, and I knew exactly what would happen from the first hint, but she didn't realize it until it happened and she saw for herself. The twist in the romance aside, the romance wasn't really enjoyable to me. The relationship went way too fast! This is basically a summary of how their relationship and the plot went went:
• Blake and Leo meet.
• They like each other so they decide to go on a date.
• Blake: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" Substitute the mirror with the Pretty App, and you get a pretty good idea of how Blake was acting.
• Blake wins the contest in the school and has to go to Hollywood to be in the reality show. She tries to make Leo come with her, but he says no because he has to do something else and he disappears after telling her that what they have is real.
• She is confused and upset, but she goes to Hollywood.
• Blake attempted to be a better person.
• Blake realizes something really big. (The big "AHA!" moment of the story.)
• *Plot twist in the romance is revealed*
• Blake is mad.
• Blake is confused.
• Blake feels betrayed. (Basically, by this point, I really stopped caring about how Blake feels...)
• Blake figures out what is really happening in the contest.
• Blake tries to stop it.
• Leo helps Blake and professes his love for her. (Woah! That just happened WAY too soon. They went out on one date. And apparently they are in love. Ew.)
• They make up.
• The fucking end.
UMM NO I WAS NOT SATISFIED WITH THAT AT ALL. NO. JUST NO. UGH.
Oops, this is kind of sounding like a rant right now, so let just stop right now, and end this review before it ends up getting any longer.
I was really disappointed in this book and it's definitely not for me.
I haven't read the first book yet, but I heard that this book could be read without reading the first one, so I read it anyway. I was honestly expecting so much more from this book.
The main character, Blake, was extremely annoying and selfish at first. All she cared about was her looks because she thought she had nothing else going for her other than that. She was mean because she thought that she was popular, so she had to be. Her actions were annoying. She keeps whining about how her life isn't perfect, and how miserable she is. Just because her life isn't perfect, doesn't make it right for her to make other people's lives miserable. And yeah she does change a lot in the end, but I never truly liked her throughout the entire story...
The plot and the whole romance was alright, but I found myself not really caring for the main character, the plot, the romance, the love interest, or anything to be honest. I felt like the whole story was more focused on relationships and feelings than anything else. And even that felt poorly executed. The plot was extremely boring and I actually didn't care about the reality-show part because it was just so obvious who would end up being the winner! And I was right about it too.
There was a twist in the romance, but I found it so obvious! Like there were so many hints that Leo was giving Blake, and I knew exactly what would happen from the first hint, but she didn't realize it until it happened and she saw for herself. The twist in the romance aside, the romance wasn't really enjoyable to me. The relationship went way too fast! This is basically a summary of how their relationship and the plot went went:
• Blake and Leo meet.
• They like each other so they decide to go on a date.
• Blake: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" Substitute the mirror with the Pretty App, and you get a pretty good idea of how Blake was acting.
• Blake wins the contest in the school and has to go to Hollywood to be in the reality show. She tries to make Leo come with her, but he says no because he has to do something else and he disappears after telling her that what they have is real.
• She is confused and upset, but she goes to Hollywood.
• Blake attempted to be a better person.
• Blake realizes something really big. (The big "AHA!" moment of the story.)
• *Plot twist in the romance is revealed*
• Blake is mad.
• Blake is confused.
• Blake feels betrayed. (Basically, by this point, I really stopped caring about how Blake feels...)
• Blake figures out what is really happening in the contest.
• Blake tries to stop it.
• Leo helps Blake and professes his love for her. (Woah! That just happened WAY too soon. They went out on one date. And apparently they are in love. Ew.)
• They make up.
• The fucking end.
UMM NO I WAS NOT SATISFIED WITH THAT AT ALL. NO. JUST NO. UGH.
Oops, this is kind of sounding like a rant right now, so let just stop right now, and end this review before it ends up getting any longer.
I was really disappointed in this book and it's definitely not for me.
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