These Boots Are Made for Stalking

The Clique #12

by Lisi Harrison

Massie Block: Now that Massie's in luh-v with a freshman at ADD, it's time for the Pretty Committe to upgrade--literally. Armed with glossy hair, juicy gossip, and enough confidence to impress the ninth grade set, Massie can walk the walk. But when she catches Landon hanging out with a bird-tattooed mystery girl, will she have to stalk the hawk?

Alicia Rivera: Thought she and Josh Hotz were a perfect fit... until she found out they wear the same clothing size. Ehma-unacceptable! Maybe she should try on a new crush in size nine--ninth grade, that is.

Kristen Gregory: Is booooored of Dempsey's constant soccer talk. When a high school hawtie makes a play for her attention, she may need to drop-kick her old crush to the curb...

Dylan Marvil: Loves lip-kissing Derrington. But when he loses a bet and has to wear his clothes backwards, all bets on another smooch session are off.

Claire Lyons: Is clinging to eighth grade like ugly on a Kmart jumper. Why grow up before you have to? But if she refuses to trade Cam in for a ninth-grade crush, will her friends outgrow her?

Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Middle Grade, Fiction, Chick Lit, Childrens, Teen

228 pages, Paperback

First published March 9, 2010

About the author

Lisi Harrison is the author of the #1 New York Times best-selling series "The Clique", "Alphas", "Monster High," Pretenders," and her first adult novel: "The Dirty Book Club" out 10.10.17. Lisi was born in Toronto, Canada, and lived in NYC for 15 years while she worked at MTV. She now lives in Laguna Beach, CA and is a member or her own Dirty Book Club.

Reviews

[Janel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Phenomenal cliffhanger ending. George R R Martin could never

[Alexis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Warning: May have tiny spoilers.
Normally I can handle "The Clique" series. This one made me want to barf.

Massie and her group of too good for you friends, decide they need an "upgrade" on their eight grade crushes. They decide that they are ALSO too good for the boys they were just obsessing over about five minutes ago. All of them except for Kuh-laire.

And so Massie goes back to her controlling "Lycra" or whatever it is ways, demanding and acting like she owns everyone. Kuh-laire, bless her gummy filled soul, finally sticks up for herself in this one. Which over joys me, because if I had to witness another breakup/makeup between Cam and Claire, I was going to puke.

Massie scared me in this one. And not because she had her hand on her hip 24/7 saying things like, "Rate me!" but because she literally stalks her new hawtie, or might I say, C-Plus. Landon. Oh, does anyone else not "LOL" every time Massie gets a new crush? As Layne would say: Jeeze Louise!

To make it even more unbelievable, her pampered pooch, Bean, also gets her own crush. Whom is Landon's own dog, Bark Obama. Might I add that I love that name. It's really original. Massie goes back to controlling the PC and since she has a ninth grade crush, everyone has to have one as well. Can you say, "Ehmahgawd x 10!" ?

Some of the parts make me sick. Claire and Layne are on Skype. I was at Sonic while reading this part. *Scowl* Layne takes a bite of party mix, some falls out of her mouth, and Claire is "filled with the view of saliva filled crumbs" on the webcam screen. Do I REALLY want to read about that? To make Layne even more of a slob, she just wipes off the disgusting chewed up food with her sleeve and shrugs.

What are the messages in the books supposed to do? Because I mean really. Backstabbing your friends is fine and you can do it again as long as you apologize? Looks are everything? Boys only like you when you act like someone your not? Your friends aren't cool unless they're the most popular in the school? Putting other people down is fine if you're depressed too? Gossiping is cool?

I could go on and on, but I wouldn't want to horrify you anymore with Lisi's way of showing kids what they really need to do in life. Ugh.

Oh, and I promise I'm nawt a snob. The language these girls in these books use make me giggle.

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I only read this book because i read the other books in the series and i needed to finish them, so i saw this book and bought it. I expected it to be bad because the previous books in the series started to get really bad. My expectation was correct because it was horrible. They think 8th grade boys are so immature really truly they are. I mean they were like "Omg you guys are totally going to LIP-KISS tonight", why lip-kiss, what about make out or like just KISS. Also they call their boyfriends their crushes, WTF why not boyfriend " Let's upgrade girls, we got to find some 9th grade CRUSHES" if your going out with the guy he is your BOYFRIEND, a crush is somebody that u secretly like or just plane out like not even secretly. Also poor claire shes the only one thats not a shallow biotch, she actually truly likes cam and doesnt want to throw him aside for a 9th grade BOYFRIEND........ :) and for some reason i keep mistaking massie as a little 5th grader.....hmmm why do i have to keep reminding myself like shes in 8th grade..... well I dont know..... ;)


P.S i <3 claire and layne they rock:) lol

[Alexis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Warning: May have tiny spoilers.
Normally I can handle "The Clique" series. This one made me want to barf.

Massie and her group of too good for you friends, decide they need an "upgrade" on their eight grade crushes. They decide that they are ALSO too good for the boys they were just obsessing over about five minutes ago. All of them except for Kuh-laire.

And so Massie goes back to her controlling "Lycra" or whatever it is ways, demanding and acting like she owns everyone. Kuh-laire, bless her gummy filled soul, finally sticks up for herself in this one. Which over joys me, because if I had to witness another breakup/makeup between Cam and Claire, I was going to puke.

Massie scared me in this one. And not because she had her hand on her hip 24/7 saying things like, "Rate me!" but because she literally stalks her new hawtie, or might I say, C-Plus. Landon. Oh, does anyone else not "LOL" every time Massie gets a new crush? As Layne would say: Jeeze Louise!

To make it even more unbelievable, her pampered pooch, Bean, also gets her own crush. Whom is Landon's own dog, Bark Obama. Might I add that I love that name. It's really original. Massie goes back to controlling the PC and since she has a ninth grade crush, everyone has to have one as well. Can you say, "Ehmahgawd x 10!" ?

Some of the parts make me sick. Claire and Layne are on Skype. I was at Sonic while reading this part. *Scowl* Layne takes a bite of party mix, some falls out of her mouth, and Claire is "filled with the view of saliva filled crumbs" on the webcam screen. Do I REALLY want to read about that? To make Layne even more of a slob, she just wipes off the disgusting chewed up food with her sleeve and shrugs.

What are the messages in the books supposed to do? Because I mean really. Backstabbing your friends is fine and you can do it again as long as you apologize? Looks are everything? Boys only like you when you act like someone your not? Your friends aren't cool unless they're the most popular in the school? Putting other people down is fine if you're depressed too? Gossiping is cool?

I could go on and on, but I wouldn't want to horrify you anymore with Lisi's way of showing kids what they really need to do in life. Ugh.

Oh, and I promise I'm nawt a snob. The language these girls in these books make me giggle.

[Bridgit · Rating 4 out of 5]

Revisiting this favorite series of mine from middle school is like looking through old pictures of myself from that time period: they make me cringe, but I'm also filled with an overwhelming sense of nostalgia.

I hadn't read books #11-14 of this series, so slowly finding out what's going on with this gaggle of catty girls is very entertaining. It also solidifies my love for Claire Lyons. I can't wait to finish the rest of the books!

[Erin Jochum · Rating 4 out of 5]

ended up reading this one through Libby because I’m impatient and couldn’t wait for the physical copy to come in through ILL.

lowkey 4 stars because the heart to heart between Massje and Mary (a dog physical therapist ?) and Massie actually exhibiting character development ? also her finally having a crush who likes her back plz 🤧

[Alexis Jade · Rating 2 out of 5]

Warning: May have tiny spoilers.
Normally I can handle "The Clique" series. This one made me want to barf.

Massie and her group of too good for you friends, decide they need an "upgrade" on their eight grade crushes. They decide that they are ALSO too good for the boys they were just obsessing over about five minutes ago. All of them except for Kuh-laire.

And so Massie goes back to her controlling "Lycra" or whatever it is ways, demanding and acting like she owns everyone. Kuh-laire, bless her gummy filled soul, finally sticks up for herself in this one. Which over joys me, because if I had to witness another breakup/makeup between Cam and Claire, I was going to puke.

Massie scared me in this one. And not because she had her hand on her hip 24/7 saying things like, "Rate me!" but because she literally stalks her new hawtie, or might I say, C-Plus. Landon. Oh, does anyone else not "LOL" every time Massie gets a new crush? As Layne would say: Jeeze Louise!

To make it even more unbelievable, her pampered pooch, Bean, also gets her own crush. Whom is Landon's own dog, Bark Obama. Might I add that I love that name. It's really original. Massie goes back to controlling the PC and since she has a ninth grade crush, everyone has to have one as well. Can you say, "Ehmahgawd x 10!" ?

Some of the parts make me sick. Claire and Layne are on Skype. I was at Sonic while reading this part. *Scowl* Layne takes a bite of party mix, some falls out of her mouth, and Claire is "filled with the view of saliva filled crumbs" on the webcam screen. Do I REALLY want to read about that? To make Layne even more of a slob, she just wipes off the disgusting chewed up food with her sleeve and shrugs.

What are the messages in the books supposed to do? Because I mean really. Backstabbing your friends is fine and you can do it again as long as you apologize? Looks are everything? Boys only like you when you act like someone your not? Your friends aren't cool unless they're the most popular in the school? Putting other people down is fine if you're depressed too? Gossiping is cool?

I could go on and on, but I wouldn't want to horrify you anymore with Lisi's way of showing kids what they really need to do in life. Ugh.

Oh, and I promise I'm nawt a snob. The language these girls in these books make me giggle.

[Lauren · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is about the upgrading of the pretty commitie. when the girls decide to upgrade to ninth grade crushes claire decides she doesnt want to upgrade and that she wants to same grade with her boyfriend cam but when layne and claire try to over throw the upgrading the pc takes things into there own hands. when massie invites landon and his friends over to massies lugorius spa clarie gets the birant idea to bring the 8th grade boys over when they finally arive at the block esstate the girls notice the there arival and arent to thriled about it either. when massies bronzer starts to stain her bright canary yellow bikini she starts to get rid of claire and her 8th grade friends. when massie figures out that landon has another 9th grade crush she starts to pull out the stalking boots. when massie figures out that this girl has a bird tattue on her ankle massie sets out to find her. when massie and the pretty commitee decide to go to a dog benifit she finds her target. when massie losses bark(landons dog)she finds him with ankle bird and landon totllay igornes her. so 2 days later she decides to go over to landons and spy on him. when ankle bird shows up things take a turn for the worst. she starts following ankle bird and when ankle bird regonizes her shenel number 5 she turns around and they start talking smack to each other. then when she is starts to cry they sit on the curb and talk it out. it turns out that ankle bird is going to college to be a dog thereipst. and every thing turns out to be okay. exept that massie and claire arent friends any more evry things okay and ever one turns out to be okay and claire has found her new friends turn out to be ninth graders and layne. when massie finds them all singing on claires karoke machine massie sends claire a text and it reads "IT.IS.WAR." and claire sends her back a text that reads "BRING.IT.ON."

LAUREN

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

wow i really don't know what to say about this book except that cant wait to read the next. war between Claire and Massie should be good. TEAM CLAIRE!!!!!!!...lol...

[Arden · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok, these books are my guilty pleasure. What can I say? I started these books in middle school twelve years ago and hadn't finished the series. I guess it's because I started branching out and reading other things, like fiction and sci-fy. So, why not? The series is over and I finally decided I want to know how it ends.

[Kelsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was...ok. Definitely my least favorite of the series so far. There was just so much drama, practically starting on page one, and like Claire, I’m kind of over it.

I really do still love Massie, though.

[Maggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

these books become a lot more fun if you imagine massie block is a lesbian

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally Claire is figuring out she doesn’t need the PC!!!

[Amber · Rating 1 out of 5]

What even is this series anymore

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.5 stars

How ironic that NOW Claire is like I don’t want to grow up too fast? Girl

Also I don’t like it when the girls fight stop the girls fighting please

[Elena L · Rating 1 out of 5]

Maybe, just maybe if I read this when I was younger I would have saved myself a lot of embarrassment.

[Beth T. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beth Tobio
Ms. Hayes
Period 2
11/10/12
These Boots are Made for Stalking by Lisi Harrison, is about a group of five alpha girls who together, call themselves the pretty committee. This book is from a serious of books based off the original book by Lisi Harrison, The Clique. I have read most of the books from this series and they all have lots of drama. The story starts off on Halloween night in Westchester, New York. Four out of the five girls have boyfriends in their grade, which is eighth grade. Massie, the leader of the pretty committee, has a ninth grade crush, Landon. On Halloween night the girls all hang out with their eighth grade boys but Massie feels that the boys are way too immature for her alpha group of friends. Massie, being Massie, feels that her ninth grade crush will think she’s immature if he sees her hanging out with boys her age. After Halloween, Massie forms a plan for all the girls to “upgrade” their crushes. All the girls agree except for one girl, Claire. Claire starts to drift away from her group of friends while they chase after older boys. Claire finds herself wishing to find a new group of friends who will accept her for who she is, rather than having the pretty committee try to change her. The rest of the girls now have older crushes which are supposed to make them “cooler”, according to Massie. The girls put hours into preparing for their dates with their older boys. Massie tries to change them and forces them to act perfect and mature at all times when they are around the boys. Massie has trouble with her crush, Landon, throughout the story because she catches him talking to girls his age. Seeing him talk to other girls became a threat to Massie, which caused her to do some investigating. Halfway through the book, the pretty committee is being dragged around while Massie stalks her crush. By the end of the book Massie comes to her senses and realizes that a boy should like her for who she is, not who she pretends to be. She decides to be honest with her crush, and when that works out well, she decides to go straight to Claire’s house to apologize to her. While the pretty committee ditched Claire for their boys, Claire found some new friends. When Massie went to apologize, she walked in on Claire hanging with her new friends. Although Claire didn’t mean to offend Massie by hanging with new friends, Massie took it the wrong way. The story ends on page 227 with Massie sending Claire a text that says, “This. Is. War.” By the end of the story all the girls were happy with their boys but it left off with a great cliffhanger between Massie and Claire.

My least favorite person in the book was Massie. At times she can be nice, but majority of the time she is mean. She is very selfish and only thinks about herself. For example, on page 141 it says, “Massie wanted to stomp her bare foot on the carpet as hard as she could, then demand that the girls focus on her for the rest of the afternoon.” The girls from the pretty committee were talking about their crushes and having fun but Massie was upset that they weren’t paying attention to her. Also she is inconsiderate of Claire’s feelings. The girls in the pretty committee are very rich, and Claire is not so she does not dress as well as Massie’s million dollar clothes. Also, Massie completely ditched Claire for older boys. Massie only thinks about herself and just forces the girls to follow her around and do exactly what she wants. At points throughout the story I felt bad for Massie, but then she would be rude and she made horrible comments about other people and I would stop feeling bad. All in all, Massie abuses her power and is really selfish, this is why I never could really warm up to her throughout the story.

I really liked the book; These Boots are Made for Stalking. This is the twelfth book from this book series that I have read and so far I’ve enjoyed all of them. I would definitely recommend this story. This book has a lot of silly girl drama. I find their drama to be funny and each chapter ends as a cliffhanger which keeps me entertained and forces me to read more. I would only recommend this book to girls because boys would find the drama in these books to be annoying. I think the book was very well written and very fun to read. I really liked this book and I would recommend this to any girl who loves dramatic stories.

[Tiffany Spencer · Rating 3 out of 5]

These Boots Are Made for Stalking
Plot: Massie decides its time for The Clique in order to match her older crush, that the PCC must do the same. Only Claire stands her ground. She’s not dumping Cam! Thus, she decides an upgrade of her own is in order. Claire does her best with Layne to get the PCC to see that they don’t need replacements but in the mean time she looks for new friends on the sly in case Massie decides to kick her out of the club again. Only Massie is distracted because her guy Landon seems to have caught the attention of a mysterious, older, girl that always seems to be hanging around him and Bark (Obama) -his dog.

My Thoughts: I did like that Claire FINALLY stands up to Massie in this one. And doesn’t cave to her ridiculousness either. AND not only that. I liked the way she decided to branch out from the PC and find friend’s that accept her for who she is. There were things I thought there were creative in this one. The Snoop Dawg bone shaped camera for one. I didn’t particularly like the way Massie used it to spy on Landon and invade his privacy. But on the flip side I could see the temptation if I had a guy that I was into and I thought he was messing around with someone else and I had a device like that how it might accidently on purpose get turned on. As wrong as that is. It was just the part where she used it just randomly to spy on him that I minded. I guess my values are screwed. I also thought the all you can eat for a dollar sweet shop sounded AMAZING! And the descriptions sounded straight out of Willy Wonka’s. Did I feel bad for Massie at the end of this when she finds out she’s lost everything. NO! Massie has turned her nose up time and time and TIME again at those she deems less than her Alpha status so I liked the twist that now this brat gets her just desserts. It felt VERY MUCH on time. Actually, it felt like it’s about time! BUT I doubt this will stick at all. Massie is a character to me that just when I’m about to get happy and think YESSS then it turns around and she’s right back having diamonds sprouting out of her backside. The PC are just as BAD! They change “crushes” like they change shoes. Giving no thought at all tho these guys. Although uh yeah Alicia’s guy (Josh) likes to dress in drag. That might be a LITTLE bit problematic down the road. So maybe I can see why she’d upgrade. Well honestly when they start giving reasons why the want new crushes. (And then crushes NOT boyfriends. Sounds like the PC themselves need an upgraded mentality). Derrington has just always seemed WAY TOO IMMATURE! All the goofy stuff he doesn’t really isn’t cute or appealing to me. Even though Dylan herself is his female equitant. Thus, making the two of them perfect for each other. And Dempsey doesn’t seem to have much of an personality. Other than the book where he calls Massie “assie”. So maybe they “should” upgrade. Even though Layne is weird as all get out you can always count on her to keep it real. Layne had to point out to Claire. YEEAH they’ve ALWAYS been this shallow!!! How Claire can NEVER see that just AMAZES me. This book was just more of the same of Massie shoving her controlling ways down everyone’s throat and the PC lapping it up. I just shook my head at Landon because honey you do NOT know what your about to get yourself into. RUN! He was the *only* one I actually liked in this book! But of course *JUST* like in real life the good guy will fall head over heels for the bitch-sighing-. Massie does NOT (or in her words NAWT) deserve Landon!

Rating: 6 1/2

[Jazmine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Massie wants the PC to upgrade their “immature” 8th grade crushes to older, 9th grade ones. Claire is not with it as she is happy with Cam. She believes this is ridiculous and unfair, so tries with the help of Layne to get them to see that so they stick with the 8th grade boys but fails. She also feels herself drifting apart from the PC and searches for a niche of friends that fit her. The other girls move forward with their crushes but Massie finds herself feeling doubtful as to whether Landon actually likes her or not. When the spy cam on Bark’s booties catches a female with a bird tattoo on her ankle in Landon’s room handing him an invitation she goes out of the way to discover who this girl is. They don’t find her at ADD, the public school their ninth grade crushes attend, but do find the invitation she handed him to Pup-a-palooza which the girls decide to go to find “Ankle-bird.” Massie has Bark with her as she offered to watch her for Landon. Kristen and Dylan she realizes aren’t there for Massie’s search but for their crushes, and Alicia isn’t much help either. Massie sees Claire that with two ninth grade girls and Layne having fun which irks her. She loses Bark only to find him with Ankle-Bird; she hurries over to find Ankle-Bird totally intimidating and thinks she’s possibly Landon’s crush. Landon arrives infuriated with Massie and takes Bark (whom earlier on the book on Halloween she’d fractured his paw) away. Ankle-Bird will see Landon at noon the coming day and he calls it a “date.” So Massie goes to spy only to find that Ankle-Bird’s a senior with a freshman in college boyfriend and has no interest in Landon, she’s Bark’s physical therapist. She gives Massie advice that the right guy will want her to be herself and so she admits to Landon everything and he forgives her and she knows he likes her as comes over and leans in to kiss her but she leaves in a hurry as she isn’t ready to kiss a ninth grader yet and goes to make-up with Claire only she finds Claire with her new group of friends as if they totally replaced Massie and the PC in her life. She is infuriated and texts while watching Claire out the window as Claire spies her and comes and looks not being able to understand her speaking between the glass so texts that “This .Is. War.” Claire, not going to let Massie tell her who she can be friends with as she has finally found a clique of friends that fit her and she feels she should be able to hang with the PC too not having to choose, texts her “Bring. It. On.”
I’m glad Massie and Landon ended up together as she finally has found seemingly the right guy for her. Additionally, I’m glad Massie learned the lesson that being herself and honest was the right way to go though I’m totally upset she wasn’t understanding with Claire and that they are having conflict. Can’t wait ‘til My Little Phony comes out.

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book series, despite being vapid, is so addicting. I usually love each and every one of them. This one disappointed me a bit, though. It really seems like they are recycling plots over and over again. Everyone is finally back together, just so Claire and Massie can declare war on each other all over again.

*yawn*

And also - there was not nearly enough of the other girls in this book. After being willing to quit the PC over their crushes in the last book, they just tossed them aside like yesterday's trash in the first chapter. WHY? We never got a glimpse into their heads to see what they were thinking. Kinda annoying.

[Alexis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book wuz Uh-mazing as all of the books in this series are. I like them because they show the insucre side of the "popular girls." I like how Massie can be completly insucure on the inside but still manages to fire back a snapy come-back. I like how Lisi's writting style she describes the girls appearence so well that I can create an exact image in my head. This book in particular didn't have that much going on in it but it still kept my interest and made me want to read more.

[Bookluver · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good book kind'a like all of them....a lot of drama. but hey, everyone needs a little bit of drama in their life.... ;)

[Asia · Rating 5 out of 5]

sometimes upgrades are good

[Zoha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Um.................................................... trampires really?? All these girl would get a slap each if I wasn't inside thier heads. It's good but the characters are getting me angry.

[Allie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series is certainly a sort of guilty pleasure for me but this one was not quite as solid as the others I have read. Maybe I was just thinking about it too much but there were a lot more misogynistic moments that stuck out too me as well as a lot of moments that fell flat. It also felt a bit more cringey than the other books. The whole drama of wanting to force Claire to upgrade her crush got frustrating pretty quick as well as the ending, when Massie wants to apologize but instead gets mad at Claire for hanging out with new friends after Massie repeatedly ignored her calls and texts. It's good for what it is but reading it as an adult I had a hard time getting through it at some points. I'm also not as keen on the focus these girls have on designer items and the way it influences them to see the high schoolers and their peers, it feels out of touch but to be fair this was published in 2010. Either way the series is kind of going down hill from here but I still feel very attached to these characters so I'm having a hard time letting them go, or at least letting Claire go. The whole time I just wanted to eat some gummy worms.

[Chloe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank god Claire finally stood up for herself against Massie. Claire deserves friends who are nice to her, appreciate her, encourage her, and don’t use her as a punching bag. Massie was a bitch to Clair for no reason since day one and Claire just took it because she wanted to be part of the group. But not anymore which I love. I hope Claire says goodbye permanently to the PC and continues down this road of self love and being with friends who treat her right.

[Amory · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars!
Finally, a Clique book where I actually loved Massie! Shes still her plotting alpha self here, but more vulnerable and actually nice to her friends. As usual, the fashion descriptions are endless, detailed, and fun as heck to read, and the Pretty Committee is at their best since they're working together as a team. Truly what keeps this book from hitting five stars is how annoying Claire is.

[Opal The Gem Book Reviews ✨ .... · Rating 4 out of 5]

A praise for more Bean Block!!

I love Beans diva attitude and luxurious lifestyle he’s the best addition to Massie’s alpha crisis the ending is what I’d wanted from Boys R Us - Massie finally coming undone and letting us see her for her non-glossed, outspoken and diva centric self and in turn Claire finally standing up to Massie and making her own life choices - This means war and I’m here for it!

[Jenise · Rating 2 out of 5]

This installment was such a disappointment. The plot was just a slog to get through and it wasn't as juicy as the other ones were. I understand the author is trying to develop Claire's character more, but who cares about care honestly.
This book is (as usual) full of unnecessary metaphors in every other sentence. It starts to become grating to read after awhile, but that's just the charm of these trashy YA novels.

[Danielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

You can kind of start to see the series start turning toward the end here, or maybe that's just because I know there's two books left. This honestly would be much more insufferable if not for that fact that Claire never gives in to Massie - she tries to make her see her side, but she never has the phase where she does what the Pretty Committee wants and then is obviously unhappy before going back to being herself. She gets that validation that being herself is actually an option.