A review by glendaleereads
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
4.0
I am really surprised that I enjoyed this book. I never thought I'd be reading a book about Beauty Queens and pageants...especially one that is a satire. This being a young adult novel I didn't expect it to be a satire at all. The plot of beauty queens being stranded on a desert island after there plane crashed appealed to me because I thought it would be a girls Lord Of The Flies and I was like "why not"? so when I began reading this book the sarcasm began right away which really surprised me. I laughed throughout this whole novel, the characters that Bray created are hilarious and the things they say were to much.
You think this novel is just about a bunch of spoiled conceited shallow girls that were on there way to a beauty pageant when there plane crashes on a deserted island, but its more complicated than that because that plane crash did not happen by accident (only spoiler I will mention). As cliche as this may sound, these girls all had a different story to tell and there time on the island made them grow as people and many of them were not the shallow fakes people would expect beauty queens to be.
There were some flaws (in my opinion) in the story but that didn't take away from me enjoying this book. There were some things that I think Bray could have elaborated more on but didn't, I wasn't left confused because of this, just curious. Other than that this was a hilarious read. I'm pretty sure girls into Beauty Pageants won't enjoy this satire to much so I wouldn't recommend it to them. But this book has female empowerment written all over it. These deserted beauty queens were survivors!.
You think this novel is just about a bunch of spoiled conceited shallow girls that were on there way to a beauty pageant when there plane crashes on a deserted island, but its more complicated than that because that plane crash did not happen by accident (only spoiler I will mention). As cliche as this may sound, these girls all had a different story to tell and there time on the island made them grow as people and many of them were not the shallow fakes people would expect beauty queens to be.
There were some flaws (in my opinion) in the story but that didn't take away from me enjoying this book. There were some things that I think Bray could have elaborated more on but didn't, I wasn't left confused because of this, just curious. Other than that this was a hilarious read. I'm pretty sure girls into Beauty Pageants won't enjoy this satire to much so I wouldn't recommend it to them. But this book has female empowerment written all over it. These deserted beauty queens were survivors!.