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By April
When you mess with karma, karma will mess with you. The Karma Club by Jessica Brody explores the eastern doctrine of karma in a contemporary setting. Madison Kasparkova has been reasonably lucky. She’s got good friends and an almost-perfect boyfriend. Things are unquestionably going her way, until one day her boyfriend burns her by cheating on her with the most frequent girl in school. Clearly, each school has a mean girl, and this boyfriend stealer is that girl. It seems as even though karma is not intervening, so Maddy and her friends take karma into their own hands.
What results is pranks! Pranks galore! I have this to say when it comes to the pranks, plz moar pranks! I loved it. I thought the pranks were both amusive AND appropriate. Each person they pranked got what they deserved. Hell seriously hath no fury like a woman scorned. It’s petty of me, but I love it when bad persons get what is coming to them.
“My point is: Guys have been screwing us over our entire lives. And we keep telling ourselves that they’ll get what they deserve. That Karma will take it is course. Because it makes us feel better long sufficient for us to shack up with a new and supposedlyu better loser who will do the same thing to us. Well, screw that. It’s time to make Karma work for us.” – pg. 68
To delve a bit beneath the surface, one thing I enjoyed with regards to The Karma Club was how well it captures emotions. You ever get your heart broken? Brody puts the wrench in heartwrenching.To be honest, I was reluctant to continue, because I was bummed over the heartbreak scene, but I could not put this book down. I am very glad I held reading, because turns out, I actually enjoyed myself. Although I did not experience this in high school, I am betting numerous high schoolers may relate to this:
“I mean, how sad is it that I necessitated a freaking Facebook profile to tell me that my boyfriend was no longer my boyfriend? As if Facebook is the official record keeper of relationships and you have to affirm all breakups and hookups with this sacred online registrar before you may consider them certified and approved.” pg. 141
Besides emotions, there are friendships! FRIENDSHIPS! Girls who aid each other out without an underlying backstabber reasons. I like that girls may be friends without being catty to each other. PLZ MOAR OF THIS.
There’s a great message in The Karma Club, but it is cloaked in fun and not seriousness, thank goodness. Honestly, I read this book in when it comes to two and half hours, that is how great it was. I read this and set it down with a smile and proceeded to tweet with regards to how much I enjoyed it. The Karma Club is utterly a book I recommend.
2 of 2 persons found the following review helpful.
Cute story, but not the most sympathetic characters.
By Tiger Holland
Madison Kasparkova, has a textbook-perfect boyfriend, Mason, and two fantasti best friends, Angie and Jade, but what Maddy genuinely wants out of life is hardcore popularity. To that end, she sends her boyfriend’s photo and mini-bio to a teen magazine so that he’ll be featured and every one will jealousy her when they read the article regarding him, therefore catapulting her to new social heights. Her plan backfires, because after the article runs, Mason dumps her for the queen bee of their high school. Maddy decides that because he injure her, she needs to recompense him back in kind. Angie and Jade are more than more than willing to aid her form a Karma Club to revenge herself on Mason, because it means that they’ll get to dole out some tail-kicking karma to their own aweinspiring ex-boyfriends.
I don’t actually like the premise. The girls complain with regards to how horrid it is that bad persons don’t get remunerated back for their bad deeds, but what they actually mean is that anybody who has been mean to the three of them shouldn’t go unpunished. When forming the club, Maddy stipulates, “No one may recognise that we are in any way responsible for what is when it comes to to happen. Everything has to be exclusively and utterly anonymous. Untraceable. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be Karma. It would just be three bitter girls attempting to get back at a bunch of their ex-boyfriends and the girl who stole one of them, which isn’t the point at all” (pg 69). It sounds to me like it’s precisely the point, other than as supposed or expected the girls wouldn’t be attempting to forcibly induce karmic remainder for only the persons who’ve personally wounded them. I think I would have enjoyed the story more if Maddy and her friends had been more honorable when it comes to their motivations–I could genuinely get into a book called the Bitter Revenge Club.
Maddy’s not an astounding person, but I couldn’t connect to her because it seemed that pre-breakup, all she wanted was popularity, and post-breakup all she wanted was for Mason to be miserable. She’s a second-semester senior, and her goals make her feel like a much younger teen. The reputation I liked best was Spencer, the most frequent boy in school, who takes an interest in Maddy and turns out to be less shoal than he in the first place appears.
Of course, by the end the girls all learn a big lesson regarding the dangers of seeking revenge, so that’s an upside. The Karma Club isn’t a bad book at all–it just didn’t work for me.
1 of 1 humans found the following review helpful.
Funny, but empowering? No way.
By Kelly Jensen (STACKED Books blog)
What happens when a girl goes to a spiritual retreat after being dumped by her cheating boyfriend?
The Karma Club: a way to make sure those who do bad likewise get the bad back at them.
Debut author Jessica Brody’s The Karma Club is a story of girls getting revenge on the boys (and girls!) who’ve done them wrong.
The Karma Club is a readalike to Suzanne Young’s The Naughty List, altho it is not an deliberately humorous and at times borders on didactic. The ending wraps up a little too tidily, even though that will surely appeal to a number of readers. The story itself is cleaner, with very minimal language issues.
This is a contemporary book, with references to Facebook and text messaging. Themes include karma and revenge, as well as relationships and how social status may affect those relationships.
Though far from perfect, Brody’s book is an easy read — one I read in an hour on an airplane. It is not a wholly fleshed but that will be the big draw for a lot of readers. Reluctant readers may find this a good choice, as well. As mentioned, fans of Young’s book and fans of Elizabeth Eulberg’s The Lonely Hearts Club will find this an magnificent reading choice.
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