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A review by loreofthebooks
Screen Queens by Lori Goldstein
3.0
Three girls get into the elite summer program for tech. They are grouped together - unwillingly - to do a project together. Lucy, Maddie and Delia all come from different backgrounds, have different ideas and very different personalities. But they all want something out of this program. The three girls must learn to work together to accomplish the challenge.
I put this on hold at my library because I am always looking for STEM oriented books for young ladies/girls/people. It was really nice to see a book tackle this topic, and do it in a way that is totally accessible to the younger generations. I'm going to break this review out into a couple parts, and unfortunately I had to return my copy and I didn't take notes. So forgive any lapses in my memory.
I'm going to start with the writing. I liked the writing. It wasn't overly contrived, or overly simplistic. There is a lot going on, and the book is continually fast paced which means it didn't take me long to read at all. In fact, I was through with it in a couple hours. The clarity of the writing style really helped with that, though.
The opening chapter provides a bit of background for everything that is going to happen in the book. We meet Lucy and we learn they are obssesed with an app that monitors their "popularity" and this app becomes the focus of a subplot later in the story.
Maddie is the designer of the group and she already has a great portfolio and Delia is the self-taught coder who is insecure.
Throughout this book we get to know these girls, and learn about all their problems: with their family, with their love lives, their friends and each other. No stone is unturned in this story! Everything though links back into the main subplot of winning the competition.
There is a lot of girl power and empowerment of young women in this story, and it deals heavily with the issues within the field of technology. There are issues brought up that might make people uncomfortable but are relevant to todays day and age.
The girls are your fairly standard characters, but that is not the point -- they push the plot forward (which in and of itself is fairly unremarkable) and they serve the point: that these girls are strong.
Overall, it was a good book, and I think any teen interested in STEM fields or technology would probably like this book. And it might be a good read for young ladies/people who are interested in going into STEM to read.
I put this on hold at my library because I am always looking for STEM oriented books for young ladies/girls/people. It was really nice to see a book tackle this topic, and do it in a way that is totally accessible to the younger generations. I'm going to break this review out into a couple parts, and unfortunately I had to return my copy and I didn't take notes. So forgive any lapses in my memory.
I'm going to start with the writing. I liked the writing. It wasn't overly contrived, or overly simplistic. There is a lot going on, and the book is continually fast paced which means it didn't take me long to read at all. In fact, I was through with it in a couple hours. The clarity of the writing style really helped with that, though.
The opening chapter provides a bit of background for everything that is going to happen in the book. We meet Lucy and we learn they are obssesed with an app that monitors their "popularity" and this app becomes the focus of a subplot later in the story.
Maddie is the designer of the group and she already has a great portfolio and Delia is the self-taught coder who is insecure.
Throughout this book we get to know these girls, and learn about all their problems: with their family, with their love lives, their friends and each other. No stone is unturned in this story! Everything though links back into the main subplot of winning the competition.
There is a lot of girl power and empowerment of young women in this story, and it deals heavily with the issues within the field of technology. There are issues brought up that might make people uncomfortable but are relevant to todays day and age.
The girls are your fairly standard characters, but that is not the point -- they push the plot forward (which in and of itself is fairly unremarkable) and they serve the point: that these girls are strong.
Overall, it was a good book, and I think any teen interested in STEM fields or technology would probably like this book. And it might be a good read for young ladies/people who are interested in going into STEM to read.