New Girl - Paige Harbison
23:54Today has just been one of those weeks - busy central! In fact all this course reading and essay writing got abit too overwhelming this week and I just needed to read something for fun! So my work-free evening on sunday was spent curled up on the sofa reading Paige Harbison's New Girl! I started at about 8ish and could not stop until I had finished just gone midnight! What a way to spend an evening! It just goes to show that I could not put this book down, I had to finish it in one sitting!
"They call me 'New Girl'...
Ever since I arrived at exclusive, prestigious Manderly Academy, that’s who I am. New girl. Unknown. But not unnoticed—because of her.
Becca Normandy—that’s the name on everyone’s lips. The girl whose picture I see everywhere. The girl I can’t compare to. I mean, her going missing is the only reason a spot opened up for me at the academy. And everyone stares at me like it’s my fault.
Except for Max Holloway—the boy whose name shouldn’t be spoken. At least, not by me. Everyone thinks of him as Becca’s boyfriend…but she’s gone, and here I am, replacing her. I wish it were that easy. Sometimes, when I think of Max, I can imagine how Becca’s life was so much better than mine could ever be.
And maybe she’s still out there, waiting to take it back." (Goodreads Summary)
We only find out the 'new girl's' name in the last few pages and it was only when my attention was drawn to the name that she was given just how unfamiliar it was. You don't really realise that she is never named until it is finally given, which I think is a clever concept in showing how everyone else just went along with her being the no-named new girl at the school.
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