Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality by Elizabeth Eulberg | Rating: ★★★★☆

As a note, a finished copy of this novel was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not effect my opinions in any way.

I initially picked up this novel because the title had me thinking it was to be a light and delicious tale of a spiteful teen ready to, playfully, get back at her peers for perhaps ignoring her for most of the years they attended class together. Some real, dishy revenge — you know?

But it wasn’t. And although that is what originally drew me in and made me think this was a to read novel; it isn’t what kept me around and while I was wrong about the general idea behind this story, it wasn’t a bad thing. Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality is a light, feel good novel that will be good for the soul as you turn the pages for insight on our narrator, Lexi’s, day to day life. It’s a great read in the contemporary young adult genre that will sure to have you laughing and loving the characters.

Through the novel you also see a bit of behind the scenes of those (rather disgusting) pageants for little kids and what living with a stage mom can be like. Lexi deals frequently with the oddities of that world via her seven year old sister and her overly enthusiastic, divorced and overweight mother who clearly loves beauty pageants more than her daughters.

Yes, her mother is one of those mother’s who lives through her daughter. Think the sort of mother you see on Toddlers and Tiara’s who needs to step back and do some serious thinking.