Sophistikatied Reviews: The Julian Game by Adele Griffin

The Julian Game by Adele Griffin.Publisher: Putnam Juvenile.Pages: 208.My Rating:All new girl Raye Archer wants is a way into the in crowd, so when ice-queen Ella Parker picks her to get second at her ex, the gorgeous Julian Kilgarry, Raye is more than game. Even if it means creating a fake Facebook identity so she can take enough about Julian to countermine him.

It's a fun and dangerous thrill at first, but Raye hadn't counted on dropping for Julian herself and igniting Ella's rage.As Raye works to accommodate the temptress Elizabeth with her real-life self, Ella serves up her own revenge, creating an online smear campaign of nasty rumors and trashy photographs. Suddenly notorious, Raye has to get a way out of the web of deception that she's helped to build, and binding to the relationships that matter. The Julian Game was nothing what I expected it to be like, but I even thought it was absolutely fantastic. It`s realistic and entertaining and in the end, you`re hit with a moral on internet privacy that you won`t even see coming. Entertaining, enthralling and informative all the same time!Raye starts out as a pushover, seeking attention and acceptance from her school`s coldest yet popular girl, Ella. But as the charade of pretending to be a sexy, blue-haired foreign girl grew, so did Raye`s backbone. Her feelings for acceptance transformed into feelings for Julian, Ella`s ex-boyfriend, whom Raye agreed to flirt with under the fake Facebook personality. Raye goes through various stages in this story; allowing people to pass all over her, but what I loved was that in the end, after all of the humiliation and betrayal has ended, Raye is a much better case than when the new first started.If you`re expecting a funny, flirty book like I was, you will be in for a major surprise. Raye learns that a single scene can vary your life. Some of the things that occur to her are so horrible, and probably wouldn`t find in actual life, but it actually makes you mindful of exactly how huge and dangerous the net and social networks can be.And I loved how it all ended. Nothing actually came together, but it gave you a sensation of settlement and it was adequate for me. And I always admire a book that can make me so off track that I can`t anticipate the outcome. Well done, Adele!Overall, The Julian Game is unquestionably a word that you want to pluck up. It manages to be a wake up call to girls everywhere to continue your torso to yourself, out of pictures and out from the internet, disguised as a shocking but hooking page-turner. I definitely recommend!P.S - Can somebody send this book to Vanessa Hudgens? I look like out of anyone, she really needs to take this.)