The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart-345 pages

I enjoyed reading this novel. I read We Were Liars by Lockhart and heard this one was good. I actually liked this better. The Disreputable history is about a teenage girl who goes to a prep boarding school. Her freshman year, she is a geek. Her sophomore year she is no longer a geek and a senior boy named Matthew Livingston, who happens to be co-leader of the Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds (which is a secret all-boys society), becomes her boyfriend. She infiltrates the Basset Hounds and causes them to do her bidding (various pranks and such). She ends up ruining her relationship with Matthew and the rest of the Basset Hounds and is on probation for the spring semester because she is turned in by Matthew, but is okay with it.

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart-240 pages

I was sparked to read this book because it was a choice for the Teen Librarianship class I took last summer in the last semester of my Master's coursework. I chose to read something else then. It was an interesting read and I did not expect the ending at all, although after finishing it I realized that some of the clues were there. I liked the "fairy tales" that Cadence (the protagonist) told in the story and it was interesting how the family always tried to act "normal" no matter the circumstances. Overall, it was a pretty good, although sad, read.