![]() ![]() I guess Mischa is right in the middle of my character likability meter. Her first bestfriend Nate is the only consistent person before and after the college rejections debacle so their friends to more than friends trope also makes sense. So she ditched her regular crowd which includes her second bestfriend Caroline, for The Ophelia Syndicate, a non-sanctioned school club with three non-conformist members. When her Ivy League dreams went down the drain, her goal became finding out why she wasn’t accepted. So the set of friends around her were the student body officers type. Her initial goal in the book is to get in a good college. Mischa’s personality is the kind of practical student who does what needs to be done and socialize with whom needs to be socialized with, for her goals. It kept my interest and the revelation of the mystery elements, albeit not super extra special shocker, made perfect sense to me. ![]() The mystery element of the book is a solid plot. It pretty much reads like a YA mystery story without a murder or a monster. What follows suit is an investigation by a group of teens. Good thing is that she has a supportive bestfriend in Nate who not only helped to straighten out her uneven bangs but also introduced her to The Ophelia Syndicate, a trio of tech whiz girls, willing to assist in uncovering why Mischa didn’t get in to any uni despite her good grades and all. I thought this is the kind of series of unfortunate events that can realistically happen to me. She ended up cutting her own bangs to cover the her self-vandalized forehead and went to school with uneven new fringes. She immediately pulled out from the angst and laughed at herself, proceeded to erase the writing only to realize that she unknowingly picked up a waterproof eyeliner pencil. There is this amusing moment when Mischa was full-on hating herself that she wrote FAILURE on her forehead. The fun and casual tone is pretty much consistent throughout the book even after Mischa found out that she did not get in any colleges that she applied for. ![]() I’ve read an excerpt of this before downloading the full eARC in Netgalley and I was hooked by the funny and casual narration and dialogues. Also, she can’t bring herself to tell the bad news to her hardworking single mom. She is in denial because her grades, test scores and extra curriculars are all in adherence to the College Admissions Formula that they follow in expensive private school, Blanchard Prep. Senior high school student Mischa Abramavicious is confident that college acceptance letters would soon start rolling in but come Admissions Day and what she got instead were we-regret-to-inform-you after we-regret-to-inform-you. ![]()
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