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Sorority Girls #1
Getting In
The simmering rivalry between Pearl sorority president Susie Madden and failed presidential hopeful Paula Parker comes to a head when Susie's younger sister Nancy, a girl clearly not suited for Pearl, pledges her sister's sorority
- GenresYoung Adult
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 12, 1986
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February 24, 2025
Rich competing sororities and lots of dramatic in-fighting, lying and backstabbing.
Everything is super 80s: gold princess phones, silk outfits, mauve carpets, country clubs, and fancy parties. Excess at it's most fun and easily digestible.
Everything is super 80s: gold princess phones, silk outfits, mauve carpets, country clubs, and fancy parties. Excess at it's most fun and easily digestible.
January 7, 2013
Lets get a couple things out of the way; this is a stupid book filled with stupid characters. I would give it three stars, but it's just too stupid.
Susie Madden is in a high school sorority called the pearls, and believe me, you won't forget it. I counted the word pearl/pearls at least 10 times on each page of the book. The name Madden was used so much I started to think my own last name was Madden. The Maddens are big shots, the Madden family runs the town, the Madden family is the best family in Michigan and must always behave in a respectful manner. I got it the first 100 times it was stated.
Another book where a girl is deemed fat because she wears a size 8 and not a 4 or 6.
Then we have Mrs. Madden, the perfect Southern belle straight from the plantation. Her oldest daughter is 23, but somehow Mrs. Madden manages to get mistaken for a girl just a couple years older. There is no way that any sighted person is mistaking that woman who is at least 45 for her daughter's school chum. Get real.
It's not a bad book, but is quite tiresome. You get tired of the contstant mention of the pearls and the Madden family honor and the overall nonsense that these rich people complain about.
Susie Madden is in a high school sorority called the pearls, and believe me, you won't forget it. I counted the word pearl/pearls at least 10 times on each page of the book. The name Madden was used so much I started to think my own last name was Madden. The Maddens are big shots, the Madden family runs the town, the Madden family is the best family in Michigan and must always behave in a respectful manner. I got it the first 100 times it was stated.
Another book where a girl is deemed fat because she wears a size 8 and not a 4 or 6.
Then we have Mrs. Madden, the perfect Southern belle straight from the plantation. Her oldest daughter is 23, but somehow Mrs. Madden manages to get mistaken for a girl just a couple years older. There is no way that any sighted person is mistaking that woman who is at least 45 for her daughter's school chum. Get real.
It's not a bad book, but is quite tiresome. You get tired of the contstant mention of the pearls and the Madden family honor and the overall nonsense that these rich people complain about.
December 30, 2020
Not as soapy as I would have hoped, but I didn't hate it. The characters are kind of bland, with only the lead, Susie, getting any real development, and she is so uptight and worried about her family reputation that she can be annoying. Her sister, Nancy, doesn't really form into a character until the last third of the book, and honestly, I would have rather followed her. Still, the shift at the mid-point of the story helped, making Susie actually grow as a character, and there is a little bit of drama at the end with the big vote. Probably going to hunt down book 2 just to see if focusing on a different character helps keep my interest.
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