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A review by agrajag
Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star by Rachel Renée Russell
2.0
Listened to the audio-version of this book with my daughters (9) who love the series.
The rating may feel harsh. It's not without merit. The dialogue is funny, the situations recognizable (if caricacatured) for kids.
But; and for me it's a big "but", I found this intolerably gender-essentialist and intolerably full of cliches about especially girls. I suppose that's to be expected from a series that marktets itself as "Diary of a wimpy kid, for girls", but really, do the girls have to confirm EVERY prejudice about girls?
The girls in these books are all universally occupied with fashion, with make-overs, with owning the right high-status brands, with being popular and well-liked and with scheming against other girls.
Boys, other than adults like teachers and parents are pretty much entirely absent, except as in one-dimensional love-interests of the protagonist that lacks any character-development of their own.
I suspect if you've got a very "traditional" view of gender, you'll find this okay. Me, I found it grating.
The rating may feel harsh. It's not without merit. The dialogue is funny, the situations recognizable (if caricacatured) for kids.
But; and for me it's a big "but", I found this intolerably gender-essentialist and intolerably full of cliches about especially girls. I suppose that's to be expected from a series that marktets itself as "Diary of a wimpy kid, for girls", but really, do the girls have to confirm EVERY prejudice about girls?
The girls in these books are all universally occupied with fashion, with make-overs, with owning the right high-status brands, with being popular and well-liked and with scheming against other girls.
Boys, other than adults like teachers and parents are pretty much entirely absent, except as in one-dimensional love-interests of the protagonist that lacks any character-development of their own.
I suspect if you've got a very "traditional" view of gender, you'll find this okay. Me, I found it grating.