The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Admission
AUTHOR: Julie Buxbaum @juliebuxbaum
Publisher: Delacorte Press @delacortepress
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐
Published: December 1, 2020
The Review
The Title/Cover Draw:
- I love academic fiction. This one seemed perfect in that respect, but also because it was based on real life headlines.
What I liked:
- I liked how the story matched the real headlines.
What I didn’t like:
- How it jumped between then and now. I felt like the then portions didn’t lend too much to what could be said in the now.
What kept me reading:
- I really wanted to know what would happen and it the main characters would be blamed and the end result.
The Characters:
- While I felt for the main character, I really wasn’t connected to her or was that sympathetic.
The Ending:
- Not exactly what I was expecting.
Consider if you like:
- If you were obsessed with the college admissions scandal.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
Small Summary:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things comes an of-the-moment novel that peeks inside the private lives of the hypercompetitive and the hyperprivileged and takes on the college admissions bribery scandal that rocked the country.
It’s good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer. She’s headed off to the college of her dreams. She’s going to prom with the boy she’s had a crush on since middle school. Her best friend always has her back, and her mom, a B-list Hollywood celebrity, may finally be on her way to the B+ list. It’s good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer–at least, it was, until the FBI came knocking on her front door, guns at the ready, and her future went up in smoke. Now her mother is under arrest in a massive college admissions bribery scandal. Chloe, too, might be facing charges, and even time behind bars. The public is furious, the press is rabid, and the US attorney is out for blood.
As she loses everything she’s long taken for granted, Chloe must reckon not only with the truth of what happened, but also with the examination of her own guilt. Why did her parents think the only way for her to succeed was to cheat for her? What did she know, and when did she know it? And perhaps most importantly, what does it mean to be complicit?