Wow!! This is the ultimate mean girl book. Not just mean, but vicious! One girl is the ultimate Queen Bee mean girl who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Her mother is even worse and will stop at nothing to get what she wants for her daughter. Girl #2 is caught in mean girl's web to the point of obsession and eventual mental derangement. But again the apple does not fall far from the tree and girl #2's mom will stop at nothing to get what she wants for HER daughter . . . to the point of mental derangement. Then there is girl #3. A nice girl from the other side of the tracks who keeps getting thrown by circumstance into the path of the Queen Bee/mean girl, chewed up and spit out. Add to all of the characters that they live in the south where rush and being a Tri Delt at Alabama is the ultimate goal. Roll Tide. You travel with these girls through high school and college and all of their meanness and backstabbing. This book has it all: jealousy, bitterness, selfishness, cutting, infidelity, sexual abuse accusations, sororities, carnival freak shows, summer camp, cheerleading, mother/daughter relationships, etc. Funny, but a dark funny. It gets 4 stars instead of 5 because it was . . . mean. Which I guess was the point of the book! Well written and in short chapters, this is a quick read. I have another book by this author and it has just moved to the top of the TBR stack.
