The List took place during Homecoming week in high school, told from the perspective of eight different girls. Although I think someone should push Andrew off of a cliff. So I guess it's good that I couldn't stand them.

They were all so messed up and obnoxious and self-centered and bratty and downright cruel - and yet, unfortunately realistic. I hated 90% of the characters in The List. The List by Siobhan Vivian is one of those books that made me so freaking angry while I was reading it, and yet I couldn't make myself put it down.

If you don't read this book and think about your own high school and your own high school experiences, I'll be surprised. The List makes you realize that no matter what you are labeled: 'pretty' or 'ugly' or 'smart' or 'athletic' there are feelings, and consequences that everyone deals with on a daily basis. High School is a tricky place to navigate through anyway, and while something like The List may be the extreme, people being labeled happens all over the place. This book is a highly emotional book about how being labeled can affect a person. I couldn't stop reading this book last night because I was so worried for these girls I had to know what happened to them.

Friendships and relationships are tested all over the place and some things the girls thought were real turn out to be just a result of the list and go away as quickly as they came. There is an inner struggle with all the girls as they try to figure out their place in the complex world of high school. Another girl believes that even if it is short-lived, she finally has friends. One girl now believes she is on top of the world and it throws another girl back into her tailspin of fighting an eating disorder. The moment this list goes public their lives change. So why did this make my heart hurt? These poor girls on this list, that's why. Each girl's perspective is so intricately woven into the story that the transitions are seamless. The story follows the eight girls that were selected to be on The List, and you may be thinking 8 POV's, too much for me.

THE LIST, very simply, shows the good, bad, and ugly of what being labeled can do to a person.

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