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Belle of the Brawl By: Lisi Harrison
This book was published by Poppy in the year 2010. The genre is fiction and the book's AR level is 6.2. Belle of the Brawl is 206 pages long. = Summary = This book is about 100 girls with a dream to be the best. They get picked to go to the exclusive Alpha Academy and compete until there is just one left. By the end of the third book there are only about thirty some left on the island. Three of them are the main characters Allie, Charlie, and Skye who are all part of the Jackie O house on the island ( each house is named after a legendary woman.) Allie can't decide what she wants to be, all she knows is that she's good at lying because that's how she got into the Academy. Her full name is Allie A. Abbott but the name on her letter of acceptance said Allie J. Abbott, an eco-freak/folksinger who ends up coming to the island and replaces their former roommate Renee and thinks Allie A. is absolute scum. Charlie loves to invent things. Her mother had been Shira's( the woman who runs/owns Alpha Academy and is also a very famous woman with four sons) assistant but was forced to quit her job when Charlie was accepted. Charlie and Allie also like the same one of Shira's sons named Darwin ( whom the girls are allowed to talk to now because of Skye). Not wanting to break Allie's heart for the second time Allie and Darwin come up with a plan to fix Allie up with Darwin's brother Mel. Meanwhile Skye is trying not to break the heart of Darwin's ever so sensitive brother Sydney by making herself less appealing(which was very hard to do). Skye is a dancer who leaves her mother( a former prima ballerina who now owns a dance studio called Body Alive) with only her old pointe shoe to remember her by. Skye fills the pointe shoe with HADs (hopes and dreams). One day, when at dance class Skye is told by her dance instructor, Mimi, that she is not very good at dancing and needs to train harder so she is to follow this other girl Triple, her real name is Andrea but she's a model, dancer, and actress so she's a triple threat, whom she absolutely hates. They train very hard and then sneak on the muse cruise which they're not allowed to go on because they're supposed to be training. A one point, they see Mimi so Skye jumps off the boat but Triple stays. Later that evening Shira comes to the Jackie O house and kicks one of them off of the island. Who will it be?????? = Book Review = The theme of Belle of the Brawl is secrets/mysteries which is one of my favorites. The theme of the book fit perfectly with everything else about it. The author's style is another thing I enjoyed. I have read a lot of Lisi Harrison books for example the Clique series. She has a way of writing that makes you feel like the characters are actually real. I loved this book because it was very exciting. The author made things happen that I didn't and couldn't have predicted. The author also went into immense detail about the setting and the characters. I also enjoyed the length of the book because it's not too long or short. It's just right. = Recommendation and Final Rating = I would recommend this book because I enjoyed it very much. It was exciting and kept me on the edge of my seat. There some very exciting twists and turns that made the book all the more good. If I were to give Belle of the Brawl a rating out of a possible ten I would give it a 9.5. I chose 9.5 because I enjoyed the book very much and there is only one ting that I didn't like about it. Some of the parts dragged on too long but otherwise it's one of the best books I've ever read.