This book was quite interesting, but the different writing styles from chapter to chapter drove me crazy. I like some semblance of consistency in a novel. Some chapters in this novel even seemed as though they were short stories posing as chapters.

I gather from the information page that particular chapters in the novel had been previously published. When looking at those chapters I could see them as stand alone stories, great stand alone stories. Within the novel however, they threw off the flow of the story dramatically I would say.

Katie Crouch writes about a girl, Sarah, who becomes a woman throughout the course of the novel. The book opens with her in cotillion school prepping for her Debutantes ball and ultimately womanhood. The book closes on a mid-thirties woman, who finds that sometimes coming home is the best way to accept and remember who you are.

The girls featured in this story are your average deb, getting into trouble almost all the time. The novel has a slight Gossip Girl quality to it, although slightly grittier. I must admit that this was a real page turner for me. I was frustrated with the writing, but that in no way stopped me from tearing through the novel in less than 24 hours.