I have been wanting to read this novel for awhile to find out if it is like Lord of the Flies, with a planeload of teen beauty queens crashing on a "deserted" island, but with females instead of males. Bray does like her sarcasm, so if you do not like sarcasm or understand it, this is not the novel for you!
The beginning of the novel may be hard for some people to follow with all the beauty queens readers are introduced to. I had a little problem keeping them separate, but when they are on stage don't they all kind of look and act alike anyway? Once their personalities, fears, and secrets are revealed, I had no problem keeping them separate.
This is not a mystery novel either because Bray lets us know who the bad guys are. We find out that this "deserted" island is actually the location of a rogue operation running a super-secret arms deal. Reading the end of the novel, I could picture those cheesy 70s shows (Wonder Woman) that I loved watching as a child but now I can't stand watching because of the limited special effects. This isn't a bad thing about the novel. . . it's just part of the humor. If I was making it into a movie I would use that for the humor.
I can picture Ladybird Hope as the vampire spokesperson (Jessica Tuck) from True Blood: same attitude, same perfect look.
Allow yourself to laugh as you read this and learn to not take yourself so seriously but do continue to question what Bray pokes fun at (reality TV, the beauty industry, politics). Enjoy the beauty!
**Christian, this is the first fiction novel I have read with footnotes.**
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