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Why
is
this
book
set
in
the
middle
school
scene?

Seriously, that's what all of this book's problems boil down to. The characters are unbelievable for twelve-year-olds. You have to be kidding me that so many adults would take preteens as seriously as they're taken here. People don't even take ME this seriously and I'm considerably older and less spoiled than these girls.

Problematic points:

Mac (center of this book) somehow manages to fool a handful of adults while she's playing Emily Mungler's agent. A twelve-year-old playing another twelve-year-old's agent.

Coco and Ruby have an audition with a major record company because "some duo has got to become the year's hottest performers". What was the last twelve-year-old duo we've seen make it big? JoJo was thirteen when she took off a zillion years ago and Miley Cirus is everywhere nowadays, but those are the only two examples I can think of in the last five or six years. Most new artists are what, seventeen pushing eighteen?

Becks loses the boy she has her eye on to some nondescript chick with a big chest. Again, totally happened when I was in middle school, but really? I mean, is this really what you're trying to feed the readers?

I could go on, but it all goes back to what I said in the beginning: Why is this set in middle school? It just kills the series completely. It's pushing not only the limits of the known world, but also the limits of impossibility set forth by other Alloy Entertainment series such as A-List, Gossip Girl and It Girl.

The world as we know it has been reduced to a zombie universe where twelve-year-olds are figures of responsibility and authority. I'll probably pick up future books cos I suck like that, but be warned that you'll need major suspension of belief to get over some of the plot twists. This coming from someone who enjoys aforementioned A-List, Gossip Girl and It Girl.