“This book gives us a glimpse about an English boarding school and how one ordinary American teenager tries to cope up with her aristocratic classmates. Calypso Kelly's experience is definitely not a walk-in-the-park because she has to deal with her psychotic new dormmate Honey who is just the devil incarnate, her increasing jealousy over the new roommate of her two best pals, and the choice that she has to make between her two very fit txtmates: Billie, the sabre team captain of the neighboring all-boys school and Freddie, the Crown Prince! At 14, what's a girl got to do?
Some parts of the book are totally hilarious but there are a lot of times that I find myself very irritated with Calypso! I know, she's only 14 and is capable of making a lot of bad choices but still, choosing to spend the weekend with the evil Honey (who is really really mean to her and her friends) rather than at her best friend's estate is a horrible decision! I just couldn't get over it! And because of her paranoia over her relationship with the Crown Prince, she tends to listen to whatever Honey is injecting on her mind, a factor that contributed to the demise of her good relationship with their other roommate, Lady Portia Herrington Briggs.
Definitely an angst-ridden story with a lot of insights to what's Calypso is thinking since it's narration is in the first person, this book is not for me. The vocabulary list is very helpful for someone who is more exposed with the American way of English use, though.”
