MIXED BAGS is the first book in the Carter House Girls series. It is an excellent beginning to a fun-filled, teen-driven lifestyle that highlights the rich and famous...with all their peculiar habits and prejudices. I would rate it a 8/10 and recommend it to people who like stories that they can relate to in some way.
This book is about a girl called DJ (Desiree Jeanette) Lane. After her mother's death, DJ tried living with her dad, his new wife and their infant twins, only to feel like she was being used as a full-time babysitter. So she jumped at the chance to live with her grandmother, internationally famous '60s fashion model Katherine Carter. Now Mrs. Carter has opened up her large Victorian home to five other girls in hopes of turning them all into debutantes.
DJ is more of a no make-up, hair tucked up in a baseball cap kind of girl, and is completely ignorant of designer labels, to her they are a whole other language and she simply dosen't see the need. So sharing her home and even a room with girls who look like they stepped off of the pages of Vogue doesn’t do wonders for her self-esteem.
The Girls: Taylor, Eliza and Kriti are beautifully dressed and self-assured and Rhiannon is Grandmothers charity case. Then there’s Casey who used to be DJ’s best friend but has undergone a makeover of her own and her parents believe she's in need of an intervention with the safety pins through her eyebrows and Goth style make-up.
Throwing all of these girls into one house unavoidablely causes plenty of drama with the clashing personalities. Some of these girls break the rules and each other without a second thought. We see events mainly though DJ's eyes, as she struggles with figuring out who she is and want she really wants, just like every other real world teen. With the six girls sharing bedrooms and closet space, there are soon arguments, tantrums, backbiting and power plays --- all of which DJ is no match for.
Then theres Connor, who DJ used to play basketball with occasionally. He has started to become more than her friend, and the conniving Taylor, who is set on destroying DJ's chances with Connor as well as her reputation is just around the conner. DJ soon realizes that she is out of her depth and makes external and internal changes that have Connor and the girls noticing.
ive read all of these books and i absolutely love them. yahhh!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis one sounds like a book that lots of the girls might like, so hopefully someone else will read it. You have given a lot of plot detail, character description (more than necessary) but not much detailed response, so next time halve the plot/character description and double the response.
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